Over the past decade, platforms like Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok have become more popular with photos and video sharing as smartphone camera quality has improved. Many people have changed from casual posters to making money creators.
Eggent, a company built by twin brothers Mukhand and Madhav Jah, aims to become a similar platform for consumers when it comes to creating apps. This platform allows non-technical users to create apps using prompts.
It’s not a unique pitch for 2025, but Engeregent aims to help users through the app development process, but you don’t have to worry about different technologies as you manage different APIs and deployment steps.
The startup raised $23 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed on Wednesday, with participation from Y Combinator (founder of Freshworks’ Together Fund), as well as the leading angels including Google’s Jeff Dean and original A16Z GP Balaji Srinivasan, including Devendra Chaplot, a founding team member of Mistral. The company has raised $30 million so far.
Mukundo, who was CTO at the quick commerce startup Danzo, India, was in charge of Google, left the company, where he went to the US and began thinking about what he wanted to make with his brother Madhav, who worked at Dropbox.
“We are both very technical and we started programming at the age of 12. In the second half of 2023, we spent time with people in different AI labs. We realized that coding that drives AI takes off considering how much effort we allocated to get the coding data correctly.
“We strongly believed in strong agents going online. However, given the development trajectory of AI, we felt that agent-based app development would be a big part of the economy, and that was a problem we would like to solve for the next 20 years.”
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The company has made it clear that it doesn’t want to compete with developer-centric tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and wants to abstract the software development lifecycle for non-technical users.
Mukund said the company has built infrastructure chops from scratch to support app development. He added that non-technical users may not want to know what code errors mean, so they have developed an AI agent to look for and fix errors in their apps.
I built a vaccine and medication tracker for my pets and tested the app. I started with a simple prompt, but the agent asked a lot of questions about what kind of pet I want to add, how the app wants to schedule reminders for multiple people or me only, and other options. We’ve also added screens like dashboards and easy ways to add pets and vaccinations.
The entire process of building and automated testing the app took less than 30 minutes, and the first version of the app got a satisfying version. Many other Vibe coding apps I have tried were unable to generate their own pre-generated prompt apps. The emergency is a bit of an edge there.
Mukund said it has built more than 1.5 million apps since the launch of the tool last year. People want to try vibe coding apps as an experiment, but the tool needs to stay on the platform and keep the apps on the user. The company said it would be easier to maintain apps for people as it also handles deployment and backend infrastructure.
Currently, the startup is deploying mobile apps using Expo as its mobile client, but he said that he will soon launch its own mobile app and build a native app. To integrate different platforms, we also use Universal API keys with shared use that prevents users from having to create accounts for different services or model providers.
At face value, vibe coding apps claim that they can build apps without technical experience. Nevertheless, when you start building your app, you run into technical terms and systems. The company wants to educate users on technical topics, such as what an API is, how to select different components such as email sending mechanisms.
Engernt is building a brainstorming mode for new users who may have an idea but don’t know the final shape of the app. This new mode will help you navigate the idea stage.
To make the app economy sustainable, developers want other users to discover their apps and receive payments in the process. Currently, Emergent shows some apps on its homepage, but that’s about it. Developers can integrate payment options such as Stripe, but they will need to bring their own API keys. In the future, Evergent wants to make both discovery and monetization easier.
Evergent has had a lot of competition in this area. Startups like Canva and Figma are tweaking users to write mini apps along with browsers like Prplexity, Comet and Opera Neon. Multiple startups are working on vibe coding solutions that cater to mostly non-technical audiences, including seven seven six backed bibecords and rockets.
LightSpeed partner Hemant Mohapatra said the venture company is looking for a startup with deep technical expertise to bring app-making capabilities to the masses, and that in its tests Evergent has run beyond expectations.
“One of the biggest obstacles to getting involved in the digital economy is the ability to coding. I wanted to invest in a company that brings a feature bar (to be able to code) next to zero, so (appendix) became a function of intent.”
He said Emergent stood out from others because it allows for a post-development lifecycle of deployment, sharing, bug fixes and support with AI.
