Mukund Jha

Co-founder and CEO of Emergent, an AI app-building platform that uses autonomous coding agents to turn plain-language ideas into production software. He previously co-founded Dunzo and served as its CTO, and has also worked at Google.

Emergent Says AI App Builder Reached $100M ARR in Nine Months

At Startup School India, Emergent co-founder and CEO Mukund Jha argues that AI can move software creation beyond programmers, letting non-technical users build, ship and monetize working products rather than demos. In a conversation with YC managing partner Jared Friedman, Jha says the company’s rapid growth came from betting on autonomous software-engineering agents before the models were fully ready, then rebuilding its architecture as those models improved. He also frames Emergent as a test of whether a global, technology-first company can be built from Bangalore.

Y CombinatorJun 6, 202612 min read