Emergent

What Emergent does

Emergent (legal entity: Emergent Labs Inc.) is an AI-native software creation platform that enables non-technical users to build, deploy, and operate production-grade full-stack web and mobile applications through conversational interaction with autonomous AI agents. Founded in 2024 by twin brothers Mukund Jha (CEO, ex-Dunzo and Google) and Madhav Jha (ex-Dropbox and Google), the company is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch and operates co-headquartered in San Francisco and Bengaluru, with its legal entity registered in Pleasanton, California. The platform's multi-agent architecture translates natural language prompts into end-to-end application builds (design, code, test, deploy, maintain) and is differentiated by the proprietary E2 agent that validates complex integrations before build completion. The product surface spans the core Emergent vibe-coding platform, the E2 agent, the messaging-first Wingman autonomous agent (WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage plus Gmail, Outlook, Slack, GitHub), and the voice-command Emergent AI mobile app that publishes directly to the App Store and Google Play.

The company operates a freemium, product-led growth motion with self-serve signup, a multi-tier subscription model (Free for personal use, Paid for commercial use, Enterprise with SLAs and data residency), and usage-based charges layered onto subscriptions for Wingman. It has expanded GTM into a B2B enterprise sales motion and supplements direct acquisition with VibeCon hackathons, Y Combinator ecosystem events, and partnerships with Google AI Futures Fund, Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Stripe, Razorpay, and MongoDB. Primary customer segments are non-technical founders/entrepreneurs, SMBs, IT agencies, product managers, and enterprise teams, with secondary reach into international emerging markets (Latin America, MENA, India).

By April 2026, Emergent reported 8 million builders, 1.5 million monthly active users, and 7 million apps created across more than 190 countries, and it claims to have crossed $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue within eight months of public launch. The company has raised approximately $100 million in equity funding across a $7M seed (Sept 2024, Together Fund), a $23M Series A (Sept 2025, Lightspeed lead), a strategic investment from Google's AI Futures Fund (Dec 2025), and a $70M Series B (Jan 2026, co-led by Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a ~$300M valuation). In mid-2026, the company was reportedly in advanced discussions for a $200-250M round at a ~$1.5B valuation. Management was bolstered in June 2026 with the appointment of Together Fund's Manav Garg as Executive Chairman and Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham to the board.

Name

Emergent

Legal name

Emergent Labs Inc.

Website

https://app.emergent.sh

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Emergent is an AI-native vibe-coding platform that lets non-technical founders, SMBs, and enterprises build, deploy, and operate production-grade full-stack web and mobile applications via autonomous AI agents, expanded by the messaging-first Wingman agent and a voice-command mobile app.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI-Powered App Development Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) (BPAEAKAC), Developer Experience Platforms for Enterprise (IDEs, CI/CD, Dev Portals) (HDAEAKAI), Software Engineering & Application Development Training (Languages, Frameworks, Testing) (BPAEANAI), AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF)

Keywords

• AI app builder
• Vibe coding platform
• No-code development
• Autonomous AI agents
• Conversational app development

Headquarters

HQ city

Pleasanton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription / SaaS plans: Recurring monthly or annual subscription plans with usage limits (projects, compute, storage, database connections, integrations). Free plan is limited to personal, non-commercial use; paid plans can be used commercially.
2. Usage-based charges for Wingman: Wingman pricing combines a subscription fee with usage-based charges on top, reflecting the token/usage consumption costs of autonomous AI agent execution.
3. Freemium to paid conversion: Large free user base (millions of builders) converts to paying customers; the company cites a freemium model that converts users into paying customers as a primary growth lever contributing to $100M+ ARR within eight months.
4. Limited free trial transitioning to paid for Wingman: Wingman launched via a limited free trial with paid access planned, monetizing the autonomous agent separately from the core vibe-coding platform.
5. Enterprise contracts (planned expansion): Capital from Series B and C earmarked for expansion into enterprise segments, enhanced APIs, security and compliance features, and enterprise-grade governance; includes enterprise plans with dedicated support, SLAs, custom data handling agreements, and data residency options.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Emergent is an AI-native software creation platform that uses a multi-agent AI system to translate natural language prompts into production-ready full-stack web and mobile applications. The platform automates the entire software development lifecycle—including design, coding, testing, deployment, and backend infrastructure management—enabling non-technical users to build and ship software without writing code. It also offers Wingman, a messaging-first autonomous AI agent that executes workplace tasks across email, calendars, messaging apps, and other tools.

Product overview

Emergent offers a single unified vibe-coding platform with multiple specialized AI agents and extensions, rather than a portfolio of separate products. The core is the Emergent Vibe-Coding Platform, an AI-native no-code environment where autonomous AI agents design, code, test, and deploy full-stack web and mobile applications from natural language prompts. The E2 Agent is a specialized module within this platform focused on validating complex integrations before generating modular production-grade code. Wingman is a separately marketed autonomous AI agent that extends Emergent beyond software creation into personal/business productivity by executing workplace tasks through messaging apps and connected tools such as Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack, and GitHub. The Emergent AI Mobile App extends the core platform to smartphones, allowing voice-driven app building and publishing to the App Store and Google Play. Together, these offerings position Emergent as a multi-agent AI platform spanning vibe coding, autonomous operations, and mobile-first software creation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Emergent AI: Mobile companion app for the Emergent vibe-coding platform, enabling users to build and publish apps via voice commands to the App Store and Google Play.
• E2
• Wingman

Products and services

• Emergent Vibe-Coding Platform AI-native no-code platform that lets non-technical users build production-ready full-stack web and mobile applications through conversation with AI agents that design, code, test, and deploy software from natural language prompts.
• E2 Agent First-of-its-kind vibe-coding agent that validates complex app integrations before generating modular, production-grade frontend and backend code, reducing build times by 30-35% on integration-heavy projects.
• Wingman Messaging-first autonomous AI agent that executes routine workplace tasks across email, calendars, Slack, GitHub, and messaging apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage), distinguishing low-stakes automated tasks from consequential actions requiring user approval via trust boundaries.
• Emergent AI Mobile App Mobile companion that enables users to build and publish fully functional apps directly to the App Store and Google Play via voice commands, extending the Emergent platform to smartphones.

Quantifiable outcome

• $100M ARR within 8 months of launch; doubled from $50M to $100M in a single month
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability10 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• OpenAIcoreTechnology or Integration · 17 April 2026OpenAI is a VibeCon hackathon ecosystem partner providing credits and resources for builders; OpenAI models support Emergent's vibe-coding agents.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or Integration · 17 April 2026AWS is a VibeCon hackathon ecosystem partner providing cloud credits and infrastructure support for builders using the Emergent platform.
• StripecoreTechnology or Integration · 17 April 2026Stripe is a VibeCon hackathon ecosystem partner providing payments infrastructure credits and resources to builders building apps on Emergent.
• Polaris School of TechnologyminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 17 April 2026Hosted the Bengaluru edition of VibeCon hackathon in April 2026 at the Polaris School of Technology campus, attracting 20,000+ applications from India and abroad.
• RazorpaycoreTechnology or Integration · 14 April 2026Razorpay is a VibeCon hackathon ecosystem partner providing Indian payments infrastructure; separately highlighted Emergent on its NBT Sketchpad series after the $70M Series B.
• AnthropiccoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 February 2026Anthropic listed Emergent among its India enterprise deployment partnerships announced alongside the opening of Anthropic's Bengaluru office in February 2026; Claude is being used by Emergent's vibe-coding platform. Anthropic's Irina Ghose also appeared as a speaker at Emergent's VibeCon hackathon.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• Bubble: Bubble is an established no-code web application platform with a much broader and older footprint. It competes with Emergent for non-technical founders building production web apps, but lacks an AI-native agent architecture and messaging-first distribution.
• FlutterFlow: FlutterFlow is an established low-code platform for building mobile apps with a visual interface. It is comparable on the 'no-code mobile app' use case but lacks Emergent's natural-language-first AI agent model and is generally more design-driven than prompt-driven.

Direct peers

• v0 by Vercel: v0 by Vercel generates React/UI code and full apps from natural language prompts. It overlaps with Emergent on natural-language-to-app generation and shares a developer- and founder-leaning user base, with Vercel's strong frontend distribution.
• Glide: Glide is a no-code platform for building mobile and web apps from spreadsheets, with growing AI features. It targets a similar SMB and operations-team segment as Emergent and competes on the 'apps without engineers' positioning.
• Cursor (Anysphere): Cursor is the leading AI-native code editor and a direct category peer in AI-assisted software creation. While more developer-centric than Emergent's non-technical positioning, both compete for the broader 'AI app creation' mindshare and capital allocation.
• Bolt.new (by StackBlitz): Bolt.new is StackBlitz's AI full-stack app builder that prompts, runs, and deploys web apps in the browser. It directly competes with Emergent's core vibe-coding proposition for the same non-technical and solo-builder audience.
• Replit: Replit is an AI app-building platform that lets users build, run, and deploy applications with integrated AI agents (Ghostwriter/Replit Agent). It overlaps with Emergent on AI-driven full-stack app creation and shares the entrepreneur/education user base.
• Lovable: Lovable (formerly GPT Engineer) is the closest direct competitor in vibe-coding: an AI app builder that lets non-technical users generate full-stack web apps from natural language prompts, targeting the same entrepreneur/SMB/PM persona with a similar freemium-led PLG funnel.

Emerging players

• Adept AI: Adept builds autonomous AI agents that operate software tools and workflows on a user's behalf. It is closely comparable to Emergent's Wingman agent on the autonomous-agent thesis (workflow automation across email, calendar, and SaaS tools) and competes for similar enterprise mindshare.
• Cognition (Devin): Cognition builds Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer agent. While focused on developer workflows rather than non-technical builders, it shares Emergent's bet on agentic, end-to-end software automation and addresses an overlapping enterprise customer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors10 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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