Madhav Jha

Co-founder & CTO, Emergent · 1 appearance on the record.

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Madhav Jha is the co-founder and CTO of Emergent, an AI platform that enables users to build software with autonomous coding agents. Previously, he served as an applied scientist on the founding team of Amazon SageMaker and held engineering roles at Zenefits and Dropbox.

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Emergent agents learn across user sessions using long-term trajectory memory

“We were able to figure out, okay, all the trajectories that we are generating, we can kind of aggregate over time and like sort of build in a long-term memory for the agent, which is very unique in the sense that your agent learns not just from your own sessio…”

Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 11:45 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator

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Jha: Matching build and deploy infrastructure reduces agent deployment errors

“If you give your agents the same in front during the build time and the same in front during the deploy time, Then the sort of like during this like deployment phase, you don't encounter those many problems.”

Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 10:12 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator

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Madhav Jha: Emergent saves $3,000–$4,000 monthly replacing Asana internally

“And we are also saving like, you know, like 3004 thousand dollars a month in subscription.”

Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 22:32 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator

Disclosure

Emergent augments foundation models with fine-tuned verification layers instead of building models

“We don't want to, like, build a Opus 4.5 alternative right away, but we do want to augment it through our custom fine tune verification layers.”

Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 32:13 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator

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Madhav Jha: Emergent developers use their own agent instead of Cloud Code

“Our coding agent is so powerful that we basically internally use it as a replacement for cloud code as developers, right?”

Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 13:17 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator

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Madhav Jha: Users build mobile apps for personal use, web apps for business

“What we have noticed is that a lot of personal apps people use, people build mobile apps, but a lot of business apps, they would go and build a web app, right? So that's generally the trend we are seeing.”

Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 21:27 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator

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Madhav Jha: Emergent QA engineer built an internal Asana clone

“The only other thing I wanted to show was this is an actual Asana Clone that our team built, like one of our QA engineers built internally.”

Madhav Jha Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 21:37 AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator	Mar 16, 2026	9m

Madhav Jha

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