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Premji Invest is reportedly in talks for a significant investment in coding platform Emergent's $250 million funding round, which could value the company at $1.5 billion. This potential investment follows a $70 million raise just three months prior.Listen to this article in summarized format
The conversation with Premji Invest started last week and it’s currently evaluating the firm, one of the persons said. The ongoing round will see participation by Bengaluru-based investment firm Creaegis, which might co-lead the round with other investors. “The talks are still on to decide the lead investors of the round and details are yet to be finalised,” the person said. The round will also see participation from existing investors.
Premji Invest declined to comment. Emergent did not respond to queries.
Accel is also said to be in early talks to invest in the company. It wasn’t immediately available for comment. Westbridge Capital was in discussions last week, but those might not have progressed, said one of the people cited.
Westbridge Capital managing partner Sandeep Singhal denied the development in an email.
The country is seeing significant interest in AI investments, potentially minting two unicorns this year. ET had earlier reported that Sarvam, which develops Indic language models, is in talks to raise over $300 million, valuing it at close to $1.5 billion with participation from US-based growth equity firm Glade Brook Capital, Nvidia, Amazon, HCL Technologies, Bessemer and Prosperity 7 Ventures.
Emergent was founded in 2024 by brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha and has raised total funding of about $100 million from investors such as Khosla Ventures, Prosus, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Together Fund, Y Combinator and SoftBank Vision Fund. The company said it has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue within eight months, becoming one of the fastest growing AI startups.
