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.
Jul 8, 20268090, 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, 20268090 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, 20268090 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'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, 20268090 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.
Jun 29, 2026Gradial, a Seattle startup building agents that automate marketing work across tools like Adobe, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Databricks, raised $65 million at a $675 million valuation led by Insight Partners. It's a bet that agentic automation with measurable ROI -- not generic AI features -- is what enterprises will pay up for.
Jun 18, 2026Sierra, the customer-service AI agent company from ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, raised $350M at a $10B valuation -- roughly 3x its mark from a year ago. Enterprises are paying for agents that actually resolve tickets, and Sierra is the clearest commercial proof that vertical agents, not chatbots, are where the money is.
Jun 17, 2026Salesforce agreed to acquire Fin -- the AI customer-service agent business formerly known as Intercom -- for $3.6B, folding it into its Agentforce platform. It's a direct bid to own the AI customer-service category before vertical agent startups like Sierra run away with it.
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