{"id":560666,"date":"2026-06-29T23:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/560666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:41:13","slug":"chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/560666\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Jeffrey Katzenberg\u2019s WndrCo; David Sacks\u2019 Craft Ventures; fellow All-In hosts and \u201cbesties\u201d David Friedberg (The Production Board) and Jason Calacanis (Launch); and angel investors like Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and Quora CEO Adam D\u2019Angelo.<\/p>\n

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

With the raise, Palihapitiya also announced on X<\/a> that he will lead the startup as CEO, rather than just serving as a board member.<\/p>\n

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. \u201cSince I left Facebook, I was waiting for a moment like this to return to a full-time operating role,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI am convinced that what we are building now is even more important, so there was no decision to make except to be all in.\u201d<\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,46324,289,290,233114,18,19,6257,17,82],"class_list":["post-560666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-coding","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chamath-palihapitiya","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-in-brief","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}