The fast-growing AI software creation platform Emergent has secured US$70m in Series B funding to accelerate product development and global expansion as millions of users build monetizable applications.
Emergent has raised US$70m in Series B funding from Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Prosus, Lightspeed, Together and Y Combinator.
In total, Emergent has now raised US$100m within seven months of launch. The funding comes as more than five million users are already building and shipping real products on Emergent across more than 190 countries.
Emergent’s annual recurring revenue has grown from US$100k to US$50m in just seven months, driven by its rapidly expanding global user base.
2026 is shaping up to be the year of the entrepreneur, with one in three US adults planning to start a new business or side hustle within the next 12 months. For decades, technical barriers such as long development cycles, six-figure builds and limited engineering talent acted as gatekeepers.
Emergent eliminates these barriers by providing anyone who has a new business idea with AI coding tools to make monetizable, production-grade applications.
Emergent works like a full development team, with agents that design, build, test and scale software end to end. The result is dependable software built in a fraction of the time and cost, giving both established and first-time business owners the speed, confidence and leverage of the world’s most advanced technology companies, without the overhead.
Most importantly, business builders can monetize their creation, going from idea to cash flow in hours. Emergent produces production-grade software engineered to ship, paired with Stripe and other built-in billing providers, so products are monetization-ready on launch.
“Software creation is undergoing a structural shift,” said Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO of Emergent. “It used to be that only people with technical training or capital got to turn ideas into real products. Emergent flips that model. We are seeing millions of people build and ship real businesses, workflows and products in days. As a result, many are generating new sources of income.
“By helping everyday people build and monetize their ideas, Emergent is stepping in to power the most crucial segment of the economy – small businesses and entrepreneurs.”
The Series B round comes just three months after Emergent raised US$23m in Series A funding, following a US$7m seed round, marking one of the fastest Series A to Series B timelines in the AI category. The round also follows recent backing from Google’s AI Futures Fund.
The new funding will support continued team growth, accelerated product development and expansion into new markets as demand for AI-powered software creation among entrepreneurs and small businesses continues to scale.
“Emergent is growing at a pace we rarely see because it is tapping into a segment that has never been served,” said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures. “When barriers to software creation fall this quickly, behavior changes across industries, not just within the technology sector.
“Emergent is early in shaping how software gets created and monetized over the next decade, not just the next product cycle, and its users are quick to share their success.”
“Emergent is harnessing AI to unlock a massive wave of entrepreneurship by removing the technical and capital barriers that have historically limited who can build software,” said Sarthak Misra, Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. “We are excited to partner with Mukund, Madhav and the Emergent team on a shared vision to help entrepreneurs worldwide turn ideas into businesses.”
