Chamath-Led AI Coding Startup 8090 Raises $135M, Salesforce Leads Round
8090, with Chamath Palihapitiya as CEO, has closed a $135M Series A led by Salesforce to keep enterprise software stable as AI agents rewrite code.
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AI-assisted software development just drew another major funding bet. The startup 8090 has raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce, with Chamath Palihapitiya stepping in as chief executive, according to reporting from TechCrunch and The Next Web. The company confirmed the round this week.
The pitch behind the round
The premise driving 8090 is deliberately unglamorous. The team argues that AI can already generate code reasonably well — that part is increasingly solved. The genuine challenge, as the company frames it, comes afterward: keeping large enterprise systems coherent and functional when dozens of AI agents and human engineers are all modifying the same codebase week after week.
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