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Meet Emergent

Emergent helps founders, small businesses and agencies build web and mobile applications by describing what they need in plain language. Its AI agents write and test code, set up databases and authentication, and deploy the application. Customers use the platform to build tools such as booking systems, sales trackers and delivery management apps. They own the generated code and can export it to GitHub or host it themselves. Emergent also offers Wingman, an AI assistant that carries out tasks across connected business tools through messaging apps.View more

Emergent helps founders, small businesses and agencies build web and mobile applications by describing what they need in plain language. Its AI agents write and test code, set up databases and authentication, and deploy the application. Customers use the platform to build tools such as booking systems, sales trackers and delivery management apps. They own the generated code and can export it to GitHub or host it themselves. Emergent also offers Wingman, an AI assistant that carries out tasks across connected business tools through messaging apps.

Founded
2024
Company size
Approximately 335 full-time employees (October 2026)
Company stage
Not known
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA

Why work here

At Emergent, engineers work on problems that affect live customer apps, such as testing AI-generated code, isolating each deployment and recovering a release when a worker fails. The company reported more than 200,000 live apps in October 2026. Its careers page lists weekly releases, direct mentorship from the founders, equity and flexible paid time off.Read more

At Emergent, engineers work on problems that affect live customer apps, such as testing AI-generated code, isolating each deployment and recovering a release when a worker fails. The company reported more than 200,000 live apps in October 2026. Its careers page lists weekly releases, direct mentorship from the founders, equity and flexible paid time off.

Industry
AI software development tools
Open jobs
51 open jobs

Tech stack

Claude API

AI models

Python

Programming language

Go

Programming language

TypeScript

Programming language

React

Frontend library

Kubernetes

Container orchestration

Temporal

Workflow orchestration

Argo CD

Continuous delivery

AWS

Cloud infrastructure

Google Cloud

Cloud infrastructure

MongoDB Atlas

Managed document database

PostgreSQL

Relational database

Redis

In-memory data store

Apache Kafka

Event streaming

Prometheus

Monitoring

Grafana

Observability

Key people

4 people
Mukund JhaCo-founder and CEOView bio

Mukund Jha co-founded Emergent with his twin brother Madhav and serves as CEO. He studied computer science at Columbia University, worked at Google and co-founded Dunzo, where he served as chief technology officer.

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Madhav JhaCo-founder and CTOView bio

Madhav Jha co-founded Emergent with his twin brother Mukund and serves as CTO. He earned a PhD in theoretical computer science at Penn State, helped build Amazon SageMaker and worked at Dropbox before starting Emergent.

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Manav GargExecutive ChairmanView bio

Garg works with the founders on strategy, partnerships and governance. He founded enterprise software company Eka Software Solutions and co-founded Together Fund, which backed Emergent at the seed stage.

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Saurabh Anand RaiHead of ProductView bio

Rai leads product strategy for Emergent’s AI development tools. An IIT Roorkee alumnus, he focuses on how users can turn instructions into software they can test and release.

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Latest company news

5 stories

Wispr Flow partners with Emergent on an India hiring challenge

Emergent

Applicants for Wispr Flow’s India growth team were invited to build a portfolio using voice dictation. Emergent provided platform credits for the challenge.

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Emergent CEO reports more than 200,000 live apps

Emergent

In an interview with The Economic Times, CEO Mukund Jha said users had built about 18 million apps on Emergent. More than 200,000 were live, and over half of those saw weekly use.

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Emergent ranks seventh on LinkedIn’s Top Startups list for India

LinkedIn News India

LinkedIn ranked Emergent seventh and listed approximately 335 full-time employees. Its largest functions were engineering, sales and marketing.

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Emergent adds support for customer-owned MongoDB Atlas clusters

Emergent

Pro customers can move a published app’s database to their own eligible MongoDB Atlas cluster. Emergent handles the migration, while the customer controls database access and storage.

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Emergent raises US$130 million in Series C funding

TechCrunch

The round valued Emergent at US$1.5 billion and brought total funding to US$230 million. The company said it would invest in research, improve the reliability of its coding agents and expand its commercial team.

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Jobs at Emergent

51 open roles
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