• As more people use AI-powered tools for coding, it’s fueling growth in a new crop of companies.
• Emergent is a vibe-coding startup that announced a new funding round today, valuing it at $1.5B.
• Emergent’s CEO, Mukund Jha, joins BI for a live Q&A on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET. Tune in to ask questions.

As AI gets better and better at writing code, where does that leave software engineers? And, how does it impact the the companies they work for?

Business Insider set out to answer these questions with a multi-part series, The Great Coding Reset.

The fear that AI will make legacy software giants irrelevant has rattled markets. But the companies building vibe-coding tools have attracted big dollars, and seen their valuations skyrocket.

On Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET, Business Insider Today’s Dan DeFrancesco sits down with the CEO of one of these fast-growing startups.

Mukund Jha is CEO and co-founder of Emergent which launched in 2025. Today, the company announced it’s raised $130 million in series C funding, bringing its valuation to $1.5 billion. That’s up from a $300 million valuation in January, just six months ago.

Tune in live to hear about his company’s exponential growth, what Jha looks for when hiring software engineers, and how vibe coding is changing his industry.

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