Emergent builds full-stack web and mobile apps in minutes.
6 dated product events are on the public record.
Sample report · Researched on 2026-09-12.
Before you join
Emergent.
Emergent builds full-stack web and mobile apps in minutes.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Pleasanton, United States
- Reported team size
- 398
- Funding stage
- Series C
Company details
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Pleasanton, United States
- Financing
- Latest round $130M Series C, 16 July 2026 · $230M raised in totalSource ↗
- Headcount
- 398 people, up from 11 over the last 18 months
- Evidence current to
- 12 September 2026
What you should know before joining
Emergent has raised $230M to date.
Last round Series C. Announced 2026-07-16.
65 people left Emergent in the last 12 months, an annualised rate of 28.4%.
65 departures over 12 months against a mean monthly roster computed from the headcount series.
Emergent's site draws 9,211,717 visits a month, up 25% on the quarter.
Traffic readings taken from the two most recent quarters on the record.
Warning signs checked
- People left in a cluster, not a trickle
Departures concentrate in a single month or a single destination.
- Not checked: Runway is not modelled and the postings history is a single snapshot, so neither half of this flag could be checked.
- Not checked: No company-claimed headcount was retrieved to compare against the roster.
7 checks listed by the pipeline. An untested check is not an all-clear.
Your future team
The roster shows 355 individual contributors and an average management span of 9.3.
The team grew 328% over twelve months to 398 people. 65 people left in the same period — 28% annualised, or roughly one in four of the people who onboard you. 3 of them went to the same place, which is a team leaving together rather than steady churn.
Monthly headcount and departures
| Month | Headcount | Recorded departures |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 25 | 11 | 0 |
| Apr 25 | 14 | 0 |
| May 25 | 15 | 0 |
| Jun 25 | 24 | 0 |
| Jul 25 | 35 | 0 |
| Aug 25 | 48 | 0 |
| Sep 25 | 53 | 0 |
| Oct 25 | 93 | 5 |
| Nov 25 | 96 | 4 |
| Dec 25 | 105 | 12 |
| Jan 26 | 128 | 3 |
| Feb 26 | 194 | 6 |
| Mar 26 | 209 | 5 |
| Apr 26 | 243 | 8 |
| May 26 | 263 | 9 |
| Jun 26 | 301 | 5 |
| Jul 26 | 330 | 8 |
| Aug 26 | 390 | 0 |
| Sep 26 | 398 | 0 |
Team size by function, with average tenure beside each. Technical is the largest at 146 people. Project Management stays shortest at 1 month across 1 person.
3 people left for Oolka. That is not churn — a team left together, and whatever they left may still be there.
65 people left in twelve months against a mean roster of about 229 — 28% annualised. Roughly one in four of the people who onboard you will not be there a year from now.
Additional context
- Attrition is stated here as 28.4%, recomputed from the roster series. The evidence below carries the supplier's own figure of 23.8%; it uses a different monthly denominator. The computed value is the one quoted above.
Who leads
Confirmed as founders: Mukund Jha as cofounder, CEO and Madhav Jha as cofounder & CTO. Previously at dunzo.in, Wisdom.ly and Habet.
There is no VP layer above the 31 managers running 398 people, about 9.3 people each. No founder has run a company before, though prior employers include Google.
Founders
Previously at dunzo.in, Wisdom.ly, Habet, Google, Columbia University, Columbia Business School.
SourcePreviously at Dropbox, Sigma Computing, Mixpanel, Amazon, Zenefits, Sandia National Laboratories.
SourceWe haven’t confirmed who reports to whom.
Building the technology
Customers and growth
People, legal and other
We haven’t confirmed who reports to whom.
What to ask about this
- How long has the senior layer been in place?
Who left
Left within 6 months
Shara Ann Charles
Product Specialist
- Joined
- September 2025
- Left
- December 2025
Stayed 6 to 12 months
Nikunj Sharma
Brand Content strategy & Creative Director
- Joined
- April 2025
- Left
- February 2026
Stayed 12 months or more, then left
Abhinav Soni
Product Manager
- Joined
- May 2024
- Left
- January 2026
- Next recorded company
- BentoLabs AI (YC P26)
Akhila Jo
Application Support Consultant
- Joined
- May 2023
- Left
- October 2025
Where people move
10 companies appear as previous employers and 10 companies appear as next employers. The two counts are separate populations — people here now, and people who left — so they do not trace individual journeys.
Previous companies
Next companies
These are separate groups. The chart doesn’t show individual journeys from one company to another.
The actual work
Emergent has 11 active job postings and 10 distinct open titles. The roles cluster around building the product, strengthening data and infrastructure capabilities, and expanding the company through growth, partnerships, talent, and investor relations.
Building the product experience
The combination of product design and software engineering points to work on the app experience and the systems behind it.
- Senior Product Designer
- Staff Software Engineer
Making the platform data-rich and secure
These roles suggest a hiring focus on using data while protecting the infrastructure that supports the product.
- Analytics & Data Science Leader
- Data Scientist
- Security Engineer Infrastructure
Expanding the company and its ecosystem
The commercial and company-building titles point to growth through technology and service partners, alongside dedicated talent and investor-relations work.
- Growth Lead
- Partner Development Lead - Technology Partners
- Partner Development Lead - Service Partners
- Talent Partner
- Investor Relations Lead
How current this is
The record shows 11 active job postings against 10 distinct open titles. Postings may have opened or closed since, so the signal is the kind of work, not the exact count.
Product and customers
The record shows Emergent moving quickly from an app launch in June to a company-claimed more than 5 million users across 190-plus countries reported on Jan 20, 2026. It names investors rather than customers, so the public record shows few or no named customer relationships.
What has shipped
Emergent launched its app in June. The record also describes Dynamite Site as building full-stack web and mobile apps in minutes, but does not provide a separate launch date for that product.
That sequence suggests the company has moved from launch toward broader reported adoption.
Who is using it
On Jan 20, 2026, TechCrunch reported that Emergent claimed more than 5 million users across 190-plus countries. That claim does not settle whether those users are active, paying, or of any particular size.
How traffic is moving
Estimated monthly website visits were 8,162,250 in June, 7,425,032 in July and 9,211,717 in August 2026 — roughly a 13% increase from June to August, though the direction reversed in between.
This is website traffic only. Website-visit counts cannot show how many users are active or paying, how many apps are built, customer retention, or revenue from the app-building platform. Read it as a measure of attention rather than product adoption.
What the public record does not tell us
The record does not establish active users, paying users, retention, customer conversion, usage of the apps built on the platform, or named customer relationships. It reports company claims about annual recurring revenue, but does not provide independently verified revenue or customer-level detail.
The evidence supports judging the reported launch and adoption claims, but not the quality, durability, or commercial depth of that adoption.
Money
$130M raised in a Series C closed 2 months ago, from Creaegis, MNI Ventures-Claypond Capital, Sentinel Global, taking the total raised to $230M. How long that money lasts is not disclosed anywhere public — no cash position, no burn rate — so no runway is estimated here.
- 2026-07-16
$230M
Series C · Creaegis, MNI Ventures-Claypond Capital, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Y Combinator
What to ask about this
- How many months of runway are you working with?
Working here
This is our interpretation of the evidence. The company hasn’t confirmed it.
The subject they keep returning to is job security and how much people learn. One of them: “Management is not clear and will throw you under the buss instead of having accountability”.
- positive
- 27
- neutral
- 9
- negative
- 40
76 accounts of working here, written by people who do not work for the company. A further 11 accounts were posted by the company or its staff and are not counted here.
What people wrote
65 accounts from outside the company, quoted as written.
- “I was charged $200 after attempting to cancel, and despite not actively using the platform, my refund was denied due to ‘usage’ from automatically hosted jobs I wasn’t aware would incur ongoing charges.” — LinkedIn
- “Disappointing experience with Emergent so far.” — LinkedIn
- “Don't do business with them the just scam me” — LinkedIn
- “You are scam company , group of scammers” — LinkedIn
- “expensive, unstable, and not worth it” — Reddit
- “keep getting errors like ‘Error Waking Up Agent’ and ‘Failed to restart the environment.” — Reddit
Competition
8 other companies are building in AI-powered full-stack web and mobile app builders. The best-funded of them on the public record are Lovable ($1.1B), Replit ($922M) and Vercel ($863M), and 3 of them have raised more than the $230M raised here. No source states what 1 of them has raised, so treat that as unknown rather than as nothing.
| Company | Total raised |
|---|---|
| Lovable | $1.1B |
| Replit | $922M |
| Vercel | $863M |
| Emergentthis company | $230M |
| StackBlitz (Bolt.new) | $135M |
| Bubble | $106M |
| FlutterFlow | $26M |
| Anything | $20M |
Total raised by each company in this market, from the sources linked below. 1 more was found with no funding figure on the record.
Lovable
Lovable lets users create and launch production web applications from natural-language instructions.
AI-generated full-stack applications for non-technical founders and product teams.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗Sweden · Founded 2023
Replit
Replit provides a browser-based development platform with AI agents that generate, modify, run, and deploy software.
AI-assisted creation and deployment of complete applications from natural-language prompts.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2016
Vercel
Vercel provides web development, deployment, hosting, and the v0 AI development platform for creating full-stack applications from prompts.
v0 overlaps directly on prompt-based full-stack web application creation, while Vercel also supplies deployment infrastructure.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2015
StackBlitz (Bolt.new)
StackBlitz’s Bolt.new turns natural-language instructions into web applications that users can edit and run in the browser.
Prompt-based generation of working web applications with integrated development and deployment workflows.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2017
Bubble
Bubble provides a visual no-code platform for building, managing, and deploying web and mobile applications with databases, workflows, and integrations.
Full-stack application building for non-technical founders without conventional programming.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2012
FlutterFlow
FlutterFlow provides a visual development platform for creating native mobile and web applications, connecting data and APIs, and exporting or deploying the resulting code.
Visual and AI-assisted creation of deployable mobile and web applications.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2020
Anything
Anything uses AI agents to create mobile apps, web apps, backends, databases, payments, authentication, and integrations from plain-language descriptions.
End-to-end AI creation and launch of web and mobile products for non-engineers.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2021
Base44
Base44 is an AI platform for building software applications, websites, agents, backends, and games from natural-language descriptions.
Natural-language generation of full-stack applications with databases, authentication, hosting, and integrations.
Company website ↗United States · Founded 2025
Questions to ask before joining
How many months of runway are you working with right now?
Why it’s worth asking
No public source discloses cash or burn, so this report cannot estimate runway and neither can anyone else outside the company.
What a useful answer would include
A number of months, and what they would slow down if it got shorter.
What to ask if the answer is vague
“We're well capitalised.” That is not a number.
The team's grown 328% this year, to 398. What's changed most about how you work?
Why it’s worth asking
Headcount moved about 328% in twelve months, to 398. That always rewrites how a company operates, and the honest version of the answer describes the job better than the job description does.
What a useful answer would include
A specific thing that stopped working, and what they replaced it with.
What to ask if the answer is vague
Treating the growth itself as the answer.
3 people left for Oolka around the same time. What happened on that team, and would I be joining it?
Why it’s worth asking
3 departures went to Oolka. That shape is a team leaving together, and whatever they left may still be there.
What a useful answer would include
A direct account of what broke and what changed after.
What to ask if the answer is vague
Reframing a group exit as unrelated personal decisions.
What percentage of the company would my grant be, fully diluted?
Why it’s worth asking
A share count with no denominator is not an offer. Percentage of what, out of how many, is the only form of this that means anything.
What a useful answer would include
Three numbers, in writing.
What to ask if the answer is vague
A share count with no total, or a percentage with no basis.
Who else did your last few customers look at before choosing you?
Why it’s worth asking
Public sources name the other companies in this market but not who wins. The answer tells you whether they know their own market.
What a useful answer would include
A named competitor and a specific missing capability, without defensiveness.
What to ask if the answer is vague
“We don't really have competitors.”
Evidence and limits.
Grey highlights information we couldn’t establish. Amber highlights information that sources disagree on.
Sources and research notes
Every figure here is computed from the evidence and links to its source. AI gathers that evidence and reads the pages it comes from, so a wrong source or a misread page can still reach this report — follow the links before you rely on anything here.
Nothing is scored or ranked. A grade would compress this into a number about the people who work there, and hide what matters more: which questions the public record can answer, and which you will have to ask them yourself.
Coverage says how much of each question the record could answer. Under 50%, treat it as unanswered rather than settled.
Runway is not modelled. No public source discloses cash position or burn, so no runway figure appears anywhere in this report.
Of 87 workplace observations, 11 came from the company or its founders and 76 from independent voices.
Every source behind this report (64)
Published about the company (12)
Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M ...
The deal takes Emergent’s total funding to $230 million.
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2026-07-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent triples valuation to $300M with ...
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2026-01-20 · Retrieved 2026-09-12AI startup Emergent turns unicorn with $130M Series C ...
AI startup Emergent turns unicorn with $130M Series C funding | YourStory
yourstory.com ↗As of 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent — Funding, Revenue & Investors (2026) | Inc42
Total funding: $230.00 Mn+
inc42.com ↗As of 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent raises $23M from Lightspeed to let consumers build apps
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2025-09-24 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Just 8 months in, India's vibe-coding startup Emergent claims ARR of over $100M | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2026-02-17 · Retrieved 2026-09-12India's vibe-coding startup Emergent enters OpenClaw-like AI agent ...
the startup raised $70 million in January at a valuation of $300 million, with backing from investors including SoftBank, Khosla Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2026-04-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Raises Series C at $1.5 Billion Valuation, Becomes Unicorn in a Year of Launch
taking total funding to $230 million
www.prnewswire.com ↗As of 2026-07-17 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Joins Unicorn Club After Raising $130 Mn
inc42.com ↗As of 2026-07-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn
thenextweb.com ↗As of 2026-07-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Raises Series C at $1.5 Billion Valuation, Becomes Unicorn in a Year of Launch
sg.finance.yahoo.com ↗As of 2026-07-17 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent: AI app builder that turns your ideas into monetizable software. | Y Combinator
We've raised $100M from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed India, Prosus Ventures, Together Fund, and Y Combinator.
www.ycombinator.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12
Reviews and public forums (10)
A great opportunity. A great growing company
They try to balance work life but there are high expectations during peak times.
www.glassdoor.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Labs Reviews by 4 Employees | Rated 2.2/5
Star 3.0 Salary
www.ambitionbox.com ↗As of 2025-12-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-12App Emergent Reviews | Read Customer Service Reviews of app.emergent.sh
www.trustpilot.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12r/vibecoding on Reddit: My emergent.sh experience: expensive, unstable, and not worth it
"expensive, unstable, and not worth it"
www.reddit.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent (A full-stack vibe coding platform)
a non technical team ended up with a system that looks like something you would expect from a mature SaaS startup
www.reddit.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Reviews (2026)
www.producthunt.com ↗As of 2026-02-14 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Reviews | Read Customer Service Reviews of emergent.sh
www.trustpilot.com ↗As of 2026-05-07 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Reviews | Read Customer Service Reviews of emergent.sh | 5 of 26
ca.trustpilot.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Pros and Cons | User Likes & Dislikes
www.g2.com ↗As of 2026-02-12 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills | Hacker News
Culture is what matters.
news.ycombinator.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12
The company’s own pages (1)
Emergent Is Now a Unicorn: We Raised $130M in Our Series C at a $1.5B Valuation
emergent.sh ↗As of 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-09-12
Profiles and company databases (13)
2026 Funding Rounds & List of Investors - Emergent - Tracxn
Emergent has raised a total of $100M over 4 funding rounds: 1 Seed and 3 Early-Stage rounds.
tracxn.com ↗As of 2026-08-26 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors
Emergent has raised $230M in funding from investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund and Creaegis
tracxn.com ↗As of 2026-09-03 · Retrieved 2026-09-122026 Funding Rounds & List of Investors - Emergent - Tracxn
Emergent has raised a total of $3.3M over 4 funding rounds: 4 Seed round.
tracxn.com ↗As of 2026-07-11 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors
Emergent has raised $3.3M in funding from Rothenberg Ventures and SparkLabs.
tracxn.com ↗As of 2026-07-11 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Raises $130M to Build Operating System for Businesses
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-07-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent is entering its next chapter. | Emergent
Has $100.1M in total funding, with 4 prior funding rounds.
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-07-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent Raises $130M in Series C Funding at $1.5B Valuation
Emergent has raised $130M in Series C funding at a $1.5B valuation
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-07-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-12We're proud to deepen our partnership with Mukund Jha, Madhav Jha, and the whole Emergent team as they announce their $130M Series C, led by
they announce their $130M Series C, led by Creaegis
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent joins the unicorn club | LinkedIn
Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a valuation of $1.5 billion
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-09-12We're building for the world and we're moving fast. That kind of ambition runs on great people: the sharpest, most relentless talent we can
We just welcomed our first batch of Founder's Office and Product hires from the IIMs.
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-04-22 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Emergent
platform.tracxn.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12One of the best parts of my role is that I get a front-row seat to the people and the energy Mukund is talking about here. | Aarti Jha
Emergent is not just growing fast, it’s growing well. With people who are sharp, extremely smart, opinionated, committed, and deeply invested in what we’re building.
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-01-22 · Retrieved 2026-09-12We’re building at an exceptional pace at Emergent, one of the fastest-growing AI startups today. And at this stage, every decision we make a
ma'am your your team could not answer one question nd its almost one month , we did not get even one reply
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-04-22 · Retrieved 2026-09-12
B2B data providers (28)
Latest funding: Series C, raised 130000000, on 2026-07-01
B2B data providersAs of 2026-07-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Funding round: Seed Round
B2B data providersAs of 2025-08-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Funding round: Venture Round
B2B data providersAs of 2025-12-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Funding round: Series C
B2B data providersAs of 2026-07-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Funding round: Series B
B2B data providersAs of 2026-01-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Leadership layer census derived from roster
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-1220 named people on the leadership record
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Founder: Mukund Jha — Cofounder, CEO (previously Google)
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Founder: Madhav Jha — Cofounder & CTO (previously Amazon, Google)
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-124 key executive arrivals recently
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-122 key executive departures recently
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Currently hiring: 60 mid_senior, 13 manager, 8 head, 5 founder
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Headcount: 398 employees
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Team composition by department
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Tenure by department computed from roster
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Roster-derived annualised attrition: 23.8%
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B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Top companies the current team came from
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Top companies people go to after leaving
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12106 of 458 people who ever worked here have left; named: 2 who left within 12 months, 2 who stayed longer
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Monthly website visits: 9,211,717
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12Website visits over 10 months
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-1211 active job postings
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-1210 open postings, by title
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-12141 technologies detected on website
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-1288 public job postings, information_technology the largest function
B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-126 dated traction events (partnerships, integrations, launches)
B2B data providersAs of 2026-04-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-128 companies competing in AI-powered full-stack web and mobile app builders
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