{"id":22547,"date":"2026-06-29T23:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:55:28","slug":"chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.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<div><\/div>\n<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&rsquo;s WndrCo; David Sacks&rsquo; Craft Ventures; fellow All-In hosts and &ldquo;besties&rdquo; David Friedberg (The Production Board) and Jason Calacanis (Launch); and angel investors like Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and Quora CEO Adam D&rsquo;Angelo.<\/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 on X 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. &ldquo;Since I left Facebook, I was waiting for a moment like this to return to a full-time operating role,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Jeffrey Katzenberg&rsquo;s WndrCo; David Sacks&rsquo; Craft Ventures; fellow All-In hosts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}