India’s Emergent Takes on Open-Source Rival OpenClaw With Its Paid AI Agent Wingman

Emergent wants to sell you an AI agent. The problem is that a wildly popular open-source project called OpenClaw already does most of the same things and costs nothing beyond your API bill.

The Bengaluru-founded, San Francisco-headquartered startup on April 15, launched Wingman, an autonomous AI agent that runs in the background handling emails, scheduling, customer support, research tasks, and CRM updates across Gmail, Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage. No terminal. No configuration files. No command line. You sign in, connect your tools, and the agent starts working.

Emergent hit $100 million in annual run-rate revenue eight months after launch, doubling from $50 million in a single month, with more than six million users across 190 countries. The startup has raised $100 million total, including a $70 million Series B in January led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Khosla Ventures, which tripled its valuation to $300 million. Lightspeed, Prosus, Y Combinator, and Google's AI Futures Fund are also in.

NVIDIA Launches NemoClaw to Add Security and Control to AI Agents

The announcement was made yesterday at the company’s GPU Technology Conference.

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