{"id":736283,"date":"2026-06-30T01:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T01:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:15:20","slug":"chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a> Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> 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 rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" 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<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chamath_palihapitiya_techcrunch_disrupt.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75885,154888,89988,74839,151418,70917],"class_list":["post-736283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-enterprise","tag-ai-coding","tag-chamath-palihapitiya","tag-fundraising","tag-in-brief","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}