--- title: Emergent hit $1.5B in under a year, and 70% of its users... description: Emergent, an AI-powered no-code app builder, has raised $130M at a $1.5B valuation roughly a year after launch, bringing total funding to $230M. The platform... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/emergent-hit-1-5b-in-under-a-year-and-70-of-its-users-have-never-written-code-ywgbcsno4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Emergent hit $1.5B in under a year, and 70% of its users have never written code | daily.dev og:description: Emergent, an AI-powered no-code app builder, has raised $130M at a $1.5B valuation roughly a year after launch, bringing total funding to $230M. The platform... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/emergent-hit-1-5b-in-under-a-year-and-70-of-its-users-have-never-written-code-ywgbcsno4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yWGbCSNo4.png og:image:alt: Emergent hit $1.5B in under a year, and 70% of its users have never written code og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Emergent hit $1.5B in under a year, and 70% of its users have never written code **[Trends](https://daily.dev/sources/trends)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Emergent, an AI-powered no-code app builder, has raised $130M at a $1.5B valuation roughly a year after launch, bringing total funding to $230M. The platform has 200,000 paying customers, 70% of whom have never written code, and has seen 12 million apps built on it. Revenue is running at $120M annualized, up 70% in four months. The Series C was led by Creaegis with participation from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator. Emergent targets SMBs and non-technical founders with an 'engineering team in a box' pitch, competing with Lovable and Replit but focusing on a distinct non-developer audience. New capital will fund product development, AI agent workflow improvements, and geographic expansion. ## Content A meal prep founder built a $200K inventory platform for $10K. That's the sentence that explains why Emergent just raised $130M at a $1.5 billion valuation, roughly a year after launching. The Series C was led by Creaegis, with Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator all participating. Total funding is now $230M. Revenue is running at $120M annualized, up 70% in four months. Over 12 million apps have been built on the platform. The numbers are striking, but the more interesting detail is who's actually building. Emergent says 70% of its 200,000 paying customers have never written code. The founders, brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, pitched it as an "engineering team in a box" for non-technical entrepreneurs and small businesses. It handles deployment, hosting, testing, and debugging. You describe what you want; it builds the thing. Omar Syed, who has built complex apps on the platform himself, put it plainly: the valuation isn't the story. Business owners turning how they work into software is the story. Emergent competes most directly with Lovable and Replit, though it's carved out a distinct lane by targeting SMBs and solo founders rather than developers who just want to move faster. That positioning seems to be working, at least by the metrics they're sharing. The fresh capital goes toward product development, AI agent workflow improvements, and geographic expansion, including a possible European office. The company is also running a $100K prize pool for the top builders on the platform through July 21, which is either a smart community play or a very cheap way to generate case studies. Probably both. The valuation is a five-fold jump in six months. Whether that's a sign of genuine product-market fit or another peak-of-the-cycle number is the question nobody in the press release is asking. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Emergent raises $23M from Lightspeed to let consumers build apps](https://daily.dev/posts/emergent-raises-23m-from-lightspeed-to-let-consumers-build-apps-mx1enmgd1) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Just 8 months in, India’s vibe-coding startup Emergent claims ARR of over $100M](https://daily.dev/posts/just-8-months-in-india-s-vibe-coding-startup-emergent-claims-arr-of-over-100m-aw6itrdkt) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent raises $70M at $300M valuation from SoftBank, Khosla Ventures](https://daily.dev/posts/indian-vibe-coding-startup-emergent-raises-70m-at-300m-valuation-from-softbank-khosla-ventures-allrxkqhw) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup), [#nocode](https://daily.dev/tags/nocode), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/emergent-hit-1-5b-in-under-a-year-and-70-of-its-users-have-never-written-code-ywgbcsno4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Emergent hit $1.5B in under a year, and 70% of its users have never written code","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/emergent-hit-1-5b-in-under-a-year-and-70-of-its-users-have-never-written-code-ywgbcsno4","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/emergent-hit-1-5b-in-under-a-year-and-70-of-its-users-have-never-written-code-ywgbcsno4"},"datePublished":"2026-07-15T17:27:35.855Z","dateModified":"2026-07-15T17:28:18.119Z","description":"Emergent, an AI-powered no-code app builder, has raised $130M at a $1.5B valuation roughly a year after launch, bringing total funding to $230M. 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