Mukund Jha

Mukund Jha is the co-founder and CEO of Emergent, the AI-powered app creation platform he launched in 2024 alongside his twin brother Madhav. Born and raised in Bihar, India — in a modest household where power cuts were common and internet access was limited — Mukund and Madhav began coding at the age of 12, teaching themselves to programme from a Visual Studio CD their father brought home. That early encounter with software set the trajectory for everything that followed.

Mukund studied Computer Science at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology before completing a Master’s at Columbia Engineering. He then worked as an engineer at Google before co-founding Dunzo, India’s first quick commerce platform, which was backed by Google and Reliance. At Dunzo, he served as CTO, scaling the business into one of India’s most prominent consumer technology companies before leaving to pursue a new founding question that had crystallised through his years in engineering: why couldn’t anyone with an idea build software without needing a developer?

Emergent was founded on the answer. The platform uses autonomous AI agents to handle the full software development stack — frontend, backend, database integration, authentication, deployment — in response to plain English instructions, producing production-ready applications rather than prototypes. The company launched in mid-2024 and scaled to over five million users in 190+ countries within seven months. It crossed £40 million in annualised recurring revenue in that same period — growing from £100,000 ARR in roughly two months — and reported £100 million ARR by early 2026, making it one of the fastest-growing software companies ever built.

Emergent raised £50 million in Series B funding in January 2026, co-led by Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, valuing the company at approximately $300 million. For Mukund, the mission is explicitly personal and global: to give every person with an idea — regardless of technical background or geography — the ability to build and ship software that works.