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In Focus Today: Emergent Labs Lands $23M as Its Vibe-Coding Platform Crosses a Million Builders in 3 Months

Jatin Chaudhary - Co-Founder, eChai Ventures
Jatin Chaudhary
Co-Founder, eChai Ventures
In Focus Today: Emergent Labs Lands $23M as Its Vibe-Coding Platform Crosses a Million Builders in 3 Months
Emergent Labs, co-founded by Mukund Jha (earlier of Dunzo) and Madhav Jha, has quickly become a platform for building AI-powered apps at speed. In just three months since launch, it reports more than a million builders, over 1.5 million apps created across 180 countries, and $15 million in recurring revenue. The idea is straightforward: help anyone move from an idea to production-ready software without long build cycles.

On September 24, Emergent announced a $23 million Series A led by Lightspeed, with participation from investors and operators linked to Google, Pinecone, Runway, and DeepMind. The update also shared examples of how people are using the platform, from a jewellery chain in Michigan automating repair quotes to small businesses digitizing operations and independent professionals starting new projects.

In this story, we’ve included Mukund Jha’s announcement along with a selection of reactions on X.
Mukund Jha's Announcement
" We are celebrating: 

A Michigan jewellery store owner built an app to price repairs across 50 stores, now she’s selling it to other jewellers. 

A small business owner replaced spreadsheets with an app that lets staff snap a photo to quickly onboard wheelchairs. 

A UK ex–product manager used Emergent to launch an EV marketplace app for the country’s booming EV sector. 

Today, because of millions of them (1M to be precise) solving real problems, we have hit $15M ARR in a record time of 3 months. That has made us one of the fastest growing AI startups in the world and the fastest ever in India. 

We're on a mission to enable everyone on the planet with a problem to build and launch high quality software, not prototypes. A bold mission needs bold supporters and we can't be more excited to have Lightspeed India (@MohapatraHemant) lead our Series A of $23M along with others. 

To celebrate the ideas you have had for years and importantly to get you started building them, we have something. For the next 48 hours, you can start building on the world's first and truly agentic vibe coding platform with a 30% discount across all plans. 

We’ll celebrate your story in the next announcement. 

Go here to build your dreams:
app.emergent.sh

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