8090 Raises $135M Series A to Accelerate Their Rollout of Software Factory

The fundraise was led by Salesforce and also included leading investors including WNDR, Craft Ventures, TPB, and LAUNCH as well as Angels including Nikesh Arora, Cliff Robbins, Adam D’Angelo, Shyam Ravindran, Thomas Laffont, and Abhi Arun.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--8090, the AI-native software factory founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, today announced that it has raised $135M, led by Salesforce, to scale its platform that lets teams of people and AI agents build and change enterprise software together.

The AI industry is moving beyond experimentation and into a period defined by execution and outcomes. It is democratizing access to intelligence, expertise, and execution capacity once reserved for the largest companies and most specialized experts. By enabling more organizations to build, AI has the potential to become one of the greatest drivers of economic mobility of our generation.

Software Factory brings people and AI agents into a single collaborative environment, connecting business intent, requirements, architecture, work orders, code, testing, and production maintenance. The result is highly customized software that fits an organization's needs exactly while providing leaders with visibility, accountability, and auditability from idea to deployment.

"AI can write code. The hard part of enterprise software is keeping fifty agents and a hundred engineers changing the same complex system every week without it pulling apart," said Chamath Palihapitiya, Cofounder and CEO of 8090. "The best companies in the world build custom software that captures what makes them unique. We built Software Factory on the belief that every organization should be able to do the same thing. AI should expand access to intelligence, expertise, and execution capacity so more people and organizations can build, create, and compete. That's the opportunity we're pursuing at 8090."

AI is changing not just how work gets done, but who has the power to build. Success will belong to those who can move from ideas to implementation faster, adapt more quickly, and continuously create new products, services, and opportunities. Enterprise software is built by teams operating across changing requirements, regulatory environments, and mission-critical systems. Software Factory provides the governance, orchestration, and accountability that allow people and AI agents to work together at scale to develop new platforms and improve outcomes. The result is highly customized solutions that fit a company's needs exactly. Downstream, this gives these companies a greater edge versus their competitors and a better experience for their customers and users. At the same time Boards, CEOs and CFOs get greater visibility, resilience, accountability, and auditability from idea to deployment.

The platform also powers 8090's own enterprise delivery business, which designs, builds, hosts, and maintains custom software for large companies in healthcare, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, government, and financial services. That work hardens the platform against the most complex legacy systems. 8090 reverse-engineered more than 18 million lines of COBOL and Assembly behind a healthcare billing engine into more than 300,000 plain-English rules in 40 days. A publicly traded health insurer turned its payable-claims rules into a deterministic pre-filter, routing more than 80% fewer claims to a pay-per-catch vendor and avoiding more than $20 million over four years. A life sciences customer cut time-to-market for a new diagnostic from five years to four across global R&D. And a manufacturer brought more than 10,000 parts under real-time validation, with automatic approvals reaching more than 1,000 users. 8090 stays accountable for these systems in production after go-live.

The $135 million Series A from leading investors and operators across technology is because they also believe that AI’s greatest impact is still ahead. This validates 8090’s current mission and accelerates its long-term vision. The capital will be used to expand the company’s commercial footprint, scale the Software Factory globally, invest in the infrastructure required to support enterprise adoption, and continue building toward a future where the ability to create, build, and innovate is accessible to more people than ever before.

Special thanks to the Poker Ray Tardes who seeded 8090.

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz served as legal advisor to 8090.

About 8090

8090 builds the 8090 Software Factory, the governed multiplayer platform for building and changing enterprise software with coordinated AI agents under human-led oversight, and runs an enterprise delivery business that designs, builds, hosts, and operates custom systems for large companies in regulated industries. 8090 serves healthcare, insurance, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, and government. For more information, visit 8090.ai.