AI app builder Emergent raises $70m led by Khosla, SoftBank
- ByStartupStory | January 20, 2026
Emergent Raises $70M Led by Khosla, SoftBank
Emergent, the AI-powered app builder enabling non-technical founders to launch production-grade software in hours, has secured $70 million in Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures and SoftBank’s Vision Fund.
No-Code Meets Production AI
Founded by ex-Google AI engineers, Emergent democratizes full-stack development through natural language interfaces that auto-generate React frontends, Supabase backends, and Stripe integrations from prompts like “build TikTok clone for college campuses.” The platform’s self-healing architecture fixes 90% of runtime bugs autonomously, delivering SOC2-compliant apps 10x faster than agencies charging $100K+.
Scale Targets Enterprise No-Code Gap
Capital fuels global expansion targeting 10,000 SMBs and Fortune 500 innovation labs, plus multimodal model integrations for voice/video apps. Khosla and SoftBank bet on Emergent capturing the $50 billion low-code market where GPT-powered builders crush manual dev cycles.
Emergent proves AI eliminates coding gatekeepers. $70 million unlocks the platform powering 1 million apps annually, turning napkin sketches into unicorn infrastructure from Silicon Valley to startup India.
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