Emergent is a new collaborative, developed by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha. Highlighting their rapid growth, they recently closed on $23 million in Series A funding, raising their total funding to $30 million. The impressive funding round saw significant participation from the likes of Lightspeed and Y Combinator, among others. It had some rockstar angels, like former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Balaji Srinivasan and Google’s Jeff Dean, underscoring the increasing excitement around democratizing app development.
Emergent, which officially launched last year. This makes development easy by removing the complexity of app creation from users that don’t have the technical skill which includes zero coding knowledge. The platform is already to over 1 million users, working together to build more than 1.5 million apps. By managing various APIs and deployment steps, Emergent allows users to create and auto-test applications in under half an hour.
Mukund Jha, the former CTO of the Google-backed quick commerce startup Dunzo in India, points out the profound effect such app development tools can have. Naturally, he thinks these tools can really revolutionize the industry. He stated, “We had a strong belief in powerful agents coming online. We felt that given AI’s development trajectory, agent-based app development is going to be a huge part of the economy, and we felt that was the problem we wanted to solve for the next twenty years.”
Given prior startup experience at Dropbox, Madhav Jha rounds out this vision by putting a goal of making app-making a low function of intent. He’s convinced that making the coding process easier and more accessible will create more opportunity for others to participate and prosper in the digital economy. Hemant Mohapatra, a partner at Lightspeed, expressed his continuing outrage on the matter. Access to the digital economy He continued, “One of the biggest roadblocks for participating in the digital economy is the ability to code. We wanted to back a company that significantly reduces the barrier to getting into coding to begin with. In this scenario, writing bad apps is just a question of a developer’s desire.
Emergent’s platform recently adopted Expo as its mobile client for deploying applications. Coming soon, it will release its own mobile app—where users can create the apps natively on the mobile app itself. This exciting shift in strategy should deepen user experience and engagement even more.
The infrastructure Emergent has built from the ground up is specifically tailored to developing the kind of apps that are needed and can be developed at scale. The platform allows developers to integrate payment options such as Stripe. They must provide their own API key for integration. That is to say, Emergent provides enough flexibility to draw the interest of both new and veteran game developers. They can truly accelerate their app development processes with this gamechanging alternative.
We know things are changing quickly in the digital space. Emergent’s groundbreaking core model will change the way people and companies interact with technology. The Series A funding will allow the company to further refine its offerings and expand its reach within the competitive tech environment.
