{"id":525178,"date":"2026-06-30T03:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525178\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:37:15","slug":"chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525178\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Jeffrey Katzenberg&#8217;s WndrCo; David Sacks&#8217; Craft Ventures; fellow All-In hosts and &#8220;besties&#8221; David Friedberg (The Production Board) and Jason Calacanis (Launch); and angel investors like Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and Quora CEO Adam D&#8217;Angelo.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Palihapitiya founded 8090 Labs in January 2024 to offer an AI coding agent specifically for corporate programming teams. Its product, Software Factory, helps corporate coders use AI to build production-quality software, not just vibe-coded prototypes, with all the controls enterprises need, such as audit trails, the company promises.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">With the raise, Palihapitiya also announced <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chamath\/status\/2071571183665881515\" data-ylk=\"slk:on%20X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;on X&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on X<\/a> that he will lead the startup as CEO, rather than just serving as a board member.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">He said the AI rush today feels like the rise of social media in his career as an early exec at Facebook, long before it became Meta. &#8220;Since I left Facebook, I was waiting for a moment like this to return to a full-time operating role,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I am convinced that what we are building now is even more important, so there was no decision to make except to be all in.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[223669,220,29036,218,219,76480,223667,223665,43702,61,60,118528,223666,56258,29158,223670,223668,80,175340],"class_list":["post-525178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-8090-labs","tag-ai","tag-angel-investors","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chamath-palihapitiya","tag-craft-ventures","tag-david-friedberg","tag-david-sacks","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jason-calacanis","tag-nikesh-arora","tag-palo-alto-networks","tag-salesforce-ventures","tag-social-capital","tag-software-factory","tag-technology","tag-venture-capital-firm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}