{"id":249146,"date":"2026-06-29T20:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:55:50","slug":"chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<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\u2019s WndrCo, David Sacks\u2019 Craft Ventures, fellow All-In hosts and \u201cbesties\u201d David Friedberg\u2019s The Production Board and Jason Calacanis\u2019 Launch, as well 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\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chamath\/status\/2071571183665881515\" target=\"_blank\">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<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/29\/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/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\u2019s WndrCo, David Sacks\u2019 Craft Ventures, fellow All-In hosts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}