Emergent announced it has raised £50 million 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 £75 million within seven months of launch. The funding comes as more than 5 million users are already building and shipping real products on Emergent across more than 190 countries.
2026 is shaping up to be the year of the entrepreneur, with one in three U.S. 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 the 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 real, 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.
Coming just three months after Emergent raised £17 million in Series A funding, following a £5 million seed round, this marks one of the fastest Series A to Series B timelines in the category. In addition to new funding, Emergent has also achieved £40 million in ARR in just seven months since launch.
The Series B funding will support continued team growth, accelerated product development, and expansion into new markets as demand for software creation among entrepreneurs and small businesses continues to scale. The round follows recent backing from Google’s AI Futures Fund.
