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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.
Misha Laskin
Misha Laskin is the co-founder and CEO of Reflection AI, a New York lab building open-weight frontier models and autonomous coding agents. A theoretical physicist by training (Yale, University of Chicago), he led reward modeling for Google DeepMind's Gemini and worked in reinforcement learning at Berkeley and DeepMind before launching Reflection in 2024 with AlphaGo co-creator Ioannis Antonoglou. In 2025 the company raised roughly $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation, positioning itself as America's open-source answer to DeepSeek.