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Startup Of The Week: Emergent

Emergent is one of a growing number of startups enabling vibe coding, which works by typing or speaking a few sentences into an AI-powered coding platform. Projects that otherwise might take hours or days can be created in a matter of seconds by people who have no idea how to code.

This form of AI-powered software development, which is helping both consumers and companies to create software in a leaner, faster way, has become so popular that in November it was named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2025.

The hard truth is that traffic to many of the most high-profile AI coding tool sites has collapsed 76% in the last 12 weeks. These tools make it easy to build prototypes fast but integration, governance, security, and reliability remain hard.

That is where Emergent comes in. Other vibe coding companies develop prototypes, says CEO Mukund Jha, while Emergent is powered by a multi-agent architecture that enables high-quality, production-grade applications, he says. Emergent’s coding agents specialize in mobile and web apps. These agents handle front-end design, database architecture, backend logic, authentication, payments, deployment, and automatic scaling.

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.