{"id":1058526,"date":"2026-06-30T00:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1058526\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:10:15","slug":"chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1058526\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the raise, Palihapitiya also announced <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chamath\/status\/2071571183665881515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">on X<\/a> that he will lead the startup as CEO, rather than just serving as a board member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1058527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,146220,1942,59472,2902,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1058526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-coding","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chamath-palihapitiya","tag-in-brief","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116836160465390587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}