REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–8090, the native AI software factory founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, today announced that it has raised $135 million led by Salesforce to scale its platform that enables teams of humans and AI agents to collaboratively build and modify enterprise software.
The AI industry is moving beyond experimentation and entering a phase driven by implementation and results. It democratizes access to information, expertise and execution capabilities once reserved for the largest companies and the most specialized experts. By enabling the creation of more organizations, AI has the potential to become one of the greatest drivers of economic mobility of our generation.
Software Factory brings people and AI agents together in a single collaborative environment, connecting business intent, requirements, architecture, work orders, code, testing and production maintenance. The result is highly customized software that is tailored to a company’s exact needs while providing leaders with transparency, accountability and auditability from ideation to deployment.
“AI can write code. The hard part of enterprise software is having fifty agents and a hundred engineers change the same complex system every week without it falling apart,” said Chamath Palihapitiya, co-founder 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. AI should expand access to information, expertise and execution capacity to do so more people and organizations can build, create and compete.” That’s the opportunity we’re pursuing at 8090.”
AI is changing not only how work gets done, but also who has the power to build something. Success will belong to those who can move from idea to implementation faster, adapt more quickly and continually create new products, services and opportunities. Enterprise software is developed by teams working with changing requirements, regulatory environments and business-critical systems. Software Factory provides the governance, orchestration, and accountability that enables humans and AI agents to collaborate at scale to develop new platforms and improve outcomes. The result is highly individual solutions that are tailored precisely to the needs of a company. This gives these downstream companies a greater edge over their competitors and a better experience for their customers and users. At the same time, board members, CEOs and CFOs receive more transparency, resilience, accountability and verifiability from the idea to implementation.
The platform also supports 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. This work strengthens the platform against the most complex legacy systems. 8090 converted more than 18 million COBOL and assembly lines into more than 300,000 plain English rules behind a healthcare billing engine in 40 days. A publicly traded health insurer transformed its payable claims rules into a deterministic pre-filter that routes more than 80% fewer claims to a pay-per-catch provider and saves more than $20 million over four years. A life sciences customer reduced the time to market for a new diagnostic from five to four years as part of its global research and development. And one manufacturer subjected more than 10,000 parts to real-time validation, with automated approvals reaching more than 1,000 users. After go-live, 8090 remains responsible for these systems in production.
The $135 million Series A from leading investors and operators across technology comes as they also believe 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 needed to support enterprise adoption, and continue to work towards a future where the ability to create, build and innovate is accessible to more people than ever before.
Special thanks to Poker Ray Tardes who bet 8090.
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz served as legal counsel to 8090.
About 8090
8090 is building the 8090 Software Factory, the controlled multiplayer platform for building and modifying enterprise software with coordinated AI agents under human supervision, and operates an enterprise delivery company 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.
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