Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
Ema Unlimited, Inc. (Ema; Enterprise Machine Assistant) is a privately held enterprise-AI company founded in California in 2023. It builds “Universal AI Employees” that can reason over organizational context, execute multi-step workflows, and automate work across functions such as HR, finance, IT, sales, customer support, legal, healthcare, and recruiting.
Primary product
Ema’s Universal AI Employee platform: a Generative Workflow Engine (GWE) and AI Employee Builder combined with EmaFusion, an orchestration/fusion layer that selects and combines outputs from many AI models. The platform connects to 200+ enterprise applications and supports SaaS, single-tenant/private-cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped deployment.
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States (third-party company profiles also identify Mountain View as a corporate/headquarters location).
Team size
Approximately 150 employees per Ema’s 2026 About page; LinkedIn-derived estimate 154, with a 51–200 company-size range.
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development / Enterprise Software
Sub-industry
Enterprise artificial intelligence, agentic AI, workflow automation, AI employees, and conversational enterprise productivity software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series A / growth-stage private company
Total raised
$61M
Latest round
Series A extension · Jul 2024
Latest amount
$36M
Jul 2024 · Accel and Section 32
Jul 2024 · Accel and Section 32
Mar 2024 · Accel
Initial/seed financing announced at emergence from stealth
Mar 2024 · Accel, Section 32, and Prosus Ventures
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Swati Trehan
Chief Operating Officer
Darshan Joshi
Field CTO
Harshit Khaitan
Head, Forward Deployed Engineering
Geoff White
Head of Demand Generation
Head of Solutions, EMEA
Phaneesh Gururaj
Head of Engineering, India
Damayanti Ghosh
Head of Global Talent Acquisition
Investors
Ema emphasizes boldness, trust, ownership, relentless drive, and innovation. Its hiring and engineering materials stress small, high-impact teams, hands-on managers who also contribute as individual contributors, rapid execution, autonomy, high standards, direct feedback, and team performance over individual heroics. The management manifesto also describes a demanding, performance-oriented environment.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
A San Francisco DevOps posting listed a $135,000–$225,000 base range plus possible variable compensation and equity. Aggregated job data indicates listings ranging roughly from $135,000 to $300,000, with an estimated average around $196,000; these are role/location-specific signals, not a company-wide compensation policy.
Benefits
Pricing
Historically described as performance-based pricing for successfully completed AI tasks; current products also use usage-based subscriptions and tailored enterprise pricing. Public self-serve list pricing was not found.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Moneycontrol reported that Ema was in talks to raise approximately $80M from Creaegis at an approximately $800M valuation. The report described a prospective transaction; it should not be counted as closed funding without confirmation.
SourceEma · Jul 2026
Ema described more than $61M raised, its Series A investor group, AI Employee Builder, Microsoft Pegasus participation, and on-premises/air-gapped deployment capabilities.
Ema blog · Jul 2026
Not a funding or M&A event, but a notable official company milestone describing recruiting/process at scale and the launch of Ema Recruiter.
Moneycontrol · Jul 2026
Reported prospective $80M financing at an approximately $800M valuation; the round was not presented as closed.
Ema · May 2026
Ema launched an agentic recruiting product covering the hiring lifecycle, with integrations to recruiting tools and ATS systems and usage-based subscription pricing.
Ema · Mar 2026
Ema announced 2,500 additional tools and 95 integrations, expanding its MCP/GWE-based enterprise automation ecosystem.