8090 Labs raises $135M for enterprise AI coding controls

The AI coding market is moving from individual productivity into corporate control. 8090 Labs, founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, has raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, and Palihapitiya is stepping in as CEO rather than remaining only a board member.

TechCrunch reports that the round also includes Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, David Sacks’ Craft Ventures, The Production Board’s David Friedberg, Launch’s Jason Calacanis and angel investors including Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo. The investor list matters because the company is not pitching another lightweight developer toy; it is chasing enterprise software budgets.

8090 Labs was founded in January 2024. Its product, Software Factory, is described as an AI coding agent for corporate programming teams. The promise is production-quality software with controls that large organizations require, including audit trails. That is a different wedge from tools that focus mainly on letting individual developers generate prototypes quickly from natural-language prompts.

The timing is notable. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and other agentic coding tools have made AI assistance normal inside development workflows. But large companies still have to answer procurement and governance questions: who requested a change, what code was generated, which tests passed, what security review happened, and how responsibility is traced when an AI agent touches a production system.

A $135 million Series A is large enough to show that investors expect the enterprise layer of AI coding to be expensive and defensible. The hard part comes next. 8090 Labs will need to prove that governance features do not slow developers down, and that its agents can handle large, messy codebases with enough reliability to satisfy engineering leaders, security teams and finance buyers at the same time.