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Emergent
Emergent is an AI app builder that turns plain-language ideas into working, monetizable software. Its autonomous coding agents handle design, coding, testing, deployment, and scaling behind the scenes, giving non-technical users something that feels like a cloud-based engineering team. Founded by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha and backed by Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Google, and Y Combinator, Emergent reached roughly $50M in ARR within seven months of launch and counts more than 5 million users across 190+ countries.
P-1 AI
P-1 AI is a deep-tech startup building engineering AGI for the physical world. Its product, an anthropomorphized AI engineer agent named Archie, is trained on proprietary semi-synthetic, physics-based datasets to reason across multiphysics design problems and use the same complex engineering tools human engineers use. Currently operating at the level of a junior mechanical and electrical engineer, Archie is already working with design partners on data center cooling and critical power systems, with expansion planned into automotive, aerospace, and defense. Founded by former Airbus and United Technologies CTO Paul Eremenko alongside Google DeepMind and Airbus veterans, the company raised a $23M seed round in 2025 led by Radical Ventures.
Swyx
Shawn 'Swyx' Wang is a Singaporean-American developer, writer, and community builder who left a $350K hedge fund career to teach himself to code at 30 - then coined the term 'AI Engineer,' built one of tech's most influential AI podcasts (Latent Space), and launched the AI Engineer conference series that put 15,000 developers in rooms together to figure out what this job actually is.