Company Snapshot
8090 Labs is a Developer tools company, based in Menlo Park, California, USA, founded 2024.
Recent changes
- Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026Raised $135M Series A Business Wire
- Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026New investor: Salesforce Business Wire
- Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026New investor: Launch (Jason Calacanis) Business Wire
- Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026New investor: Craft Ventures Business Wire
- Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026New investor: WndrCo Business Wire
Earlier changes (6)
- Jul 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026New investor: The Production Board Business Wire
- Jun 30, 2026Jun 30, 2026Chamath's 8090 Labs Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures Pulse story
- Jun 29, 2026Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes the CEO Role Pulse story
- Jun 29, 2026Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role Pulse story
- Jun 29, 2026Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Returns as CEO Pulse story
- Jun 29, 2026Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role Pulse story
Funding History
1 event · sources dated per row| Date | Event | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2026 | Series A | $135M | — | Pulse story |
Investors
Latest Pulse
- Jul 8, 2026Chamath's 8090 Raises $135M Led by Salesforce8090, the enterprise AI-agent software company founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce, with Palihapitiya stepping down from the board to become full-time CEO.→
- Jun 30, 2026Chamath's 8090 Labs Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures8090, the AI-native 'software factory' co-founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Palihapitiya stepping down from the board to become full-time CEO the same week the round closed.→
- Jun 30, 2026Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T Agentic Coding Model Trained Entirely on Chinese ChipsMeituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts coding model with a one-million-token context window, releasing it under the permissive MIT license on GitHub and Hugging Face. The release unmasked 'Owl Alpha,' the anonymous stealth model that had quietly topped global developer charts on OpenRouter for two months -- and revealed that the entire system was trained and served on a 50,000-card domestic compute cluster with no Nvidia or AMD accelerators. It is the clearest evidence yet that China can build a near-frontier AI stack end to end despite US export controls.→
- Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role8090 Labs, the enterprise AI-coding startup Chamath Palihapitiya founded in January 2024, raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Palihapitiya stepping in as full-time CEO for the first time since leaving Facebook. The company's Software Factory product helps corporate engineering teams use AI to build production-grade software with the audit trails and controls large enterprises require, rather than the vibe-coded prototypes most AI coding tools produce.→
- Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role8090 Labs, the enterprise AI coding startup founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures on June 29, with Chamath stepping into the CEO seat — his first full-time operating role since leaving Facebook. The company's Software Factory product helps corporate engineering teams ship production-quality software with AI agents rather than vibe-coded prototypes.→
- Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Returns as CEOChamath Palihapitiya's 8090 Labs raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Palihapitiya taking the CEO role -- his first full-time operating job since leaving Facebook -- to scale Software Factory, an AI coding platform built for regulated industries including healthcare, insurance, aerospace and government, TechCrunch reported June 29.→
- Jun 29, 2026Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes the CEO Role8090 Labs, the enterprise AI coding startup Chamath Palihapitiya founded in early 2024, raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures -- and Palihapitiya announced he will run it as CEO rather than just chairing the board. Its flagship product, Software Factory, aims to move corporate engineering teams from AI prototypes to production-grade applications with enterprise controls like audit trails.→
Coverage Timeline
newest first- Jul 8, 2026FUNDINGChamath's 8090 Raises $135M Led by Salesforce$135M Series A→
- Jun 30, 2026FUNDINGChamath's 8090 Labs Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures$135M Series A→
- Jun 29, 2026FUNDINGChamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role$135M→
- Jun 29, 2026FUNDINGChamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role$135M→
- Jun 29, 2026FUNDINGChamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Returns as CEO$135M Series A→
- Jun 29, 2026FUNDINGChamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes the CEO Role$135M→
All Coverage
FUNDING$135M Series A
Chamath's 8090 Raises $135M Led by Salesforce
8090, the enterprise AI-agent software company founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce, with Palihapitiya stepping down from the board to become full-time CEO.
Chamath's 8090 Labs Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures
FUNDING$135M Series A
Chamath's 8090 Labs Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures
8090, the AI-native 'software factory' co-founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Palihapitiya stepping down from the board to become full-time CEO the same week the round closed.
Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role
FUNDING$135M
Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role
8090 Labs, the enterprise AI-coding startup Chamath Palihapitiya founded in January 2024, raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Palihapitiya stepping in as full-time CEO for the first time since leaving Facebook. The company's Software Factory product helps corporate engineering teams use AI to build production-grade software with the audit trails and controls large enterprises require, rather than the vibe-coded prototypes most AI coding tools produce.
Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role
FUNDING$135M
Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role
8090 Labs, the enterprise AI coding startup founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures on June 29, with Chamath stepping into the CEO seat — his first full-time operating role since leaving Facebook. The company's Software Factory product helps corporate engineering teams ship production-quality software with AI agents rather than vibe-coded prototypes.
Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Returns as CEO
FUNDING$135M Series A
Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Returns as CEO
Chamath Palihapitiya's 8090 Labs raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Palihapitiya taking the CEO role -- his first full-time operating job since leaving Facebook -- to scale Software Factory, an AI coding platform built for regulated industries including healthcare, insurance, aerospace and government, TechCrunch reported June 29.
Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes the CEO Role
FUNDING$135M
Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes the CEO Role
8090 Labs, the enterprise AI coding startup Chamath Palihapitiya founded in early 2024, raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures -- and Palihapitiya announced he will run it as CEO rather than just chairing the board. Its flagship product, Software Factory, aims to move corporate engineering teams from AI prototypes to production-grade applications with enterprise controls like audit trails.
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Who are 8090 Labs's investors?
8090 Labs's investors include Salesforce, Craft Ventures, Launch (Jason Calacanis), The Production Board, WndrCo, and 3 more (As of 2026-08-12T00:39:11Z).
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