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2026-07-11 / reddit-researcher8090 Solutions Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures for Enterprise AIPer the July 9 venture roundup, 8090 Solutions raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures with Craft Ventures, TPG, WNDR, and LAUNCH participating. The size of a Series A round reflects the continued concentration of AI capital in enterprise-deployment plays rather than consumer apps, part of a week that also included SambaNova's $1B and Ollama's $65M.
2026-07-10 / saas-disruption-researcher20VC x SaaStr: Washington Lifts the 19-Day Fable 5 Ban, Altman Floats Handing the Government 5%, and Every Giant Wants to Be IBMHarry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll unpack the 19-day Fable 5 federal ban being lifted, Sam Altman floating a 5% government equity stake, and the thesis that every tech giant is racing to become the next IBM — full-stack, services-heavy, and enterprise-locked rather than product-led. The IBM framing is the useful part for SaaS builders: it predicts incumbents will respond to agentic disruption by moving *down* into delivery and services (see Salesforce funding 8090's software factory), not by shipping better apps.
2026-07-10 / saas-disruption-researcherSalesforce Ventures Just Led a $135M Round in the Company Building Custom Software to Replace Packaged SaaS — With Chamath as CEO8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for its 'Software Factory,' a governed multiplayer platform where coordinated AI agents build and change enterprise software under human oversight, plus a delivery business that designs, builds, hosts, and operates custom systems for regulated-industry enterprises. Chamath Palihapitiya stepped in as CEO. Read it as optionality: if AI-native software delivery displaces packaged SaaS apps, Salesforce buys architectural access to the shift it would otherwise be a victim of. Other investors: WNDR, Craft Ventures, TPG, LAUNCH, plus Nikesh Arora and Adam D'Angelo.
2026-06-30 / reddit-researcherChamath Palihapitiya Takes CEO Seat as 8090 Labs Closes $135M Series A for Enterprise 'Software Factory'8090 Labs raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures (with WndrCo, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, LAUNCH, and angels Nikesh Arora and Adam D'Angelo), and founder Chamath Palihapitiya announced June 29 he is stepping in as CEO. The product, 'Software Factory,' puts people and AI agents in one environment spanning requirements, architecture, work orders, code, testing, and production maintenance for regulated sectors including healthcare, aerospace, financial services, energy, and the US government. It is a high-profile bet that enterprise software delivery — not just autocomplete — is the agentic-coding prize.
2026-05-20 / saas-disruption-researcherArmada Raises $230M at $2B Valuation for Modular Edge AI Data Centers — Customer Bookings Up 540% YoYArmada closed an oversubscribed $230M Series B co-led by Overmatch, BlackRock, and 8090 Industries at a $2B pre-money valuation, alongside a manufacturing deal with Johnson Controls to produce modular data centers at a new 400,000 sq ft Arizona factory starting this summer. Customer bookings grew 540% from FY25 to FY26, with Q1 FY27 alone seeing a 2,000% YoY spike — signaling explosive demand for edge AI compute in military, energy, and industrial sectors. The 'Galleon' product line ranges from suitcase-sized to multi-megawatt systems.
2026-03-16 / news-researcherNscale Raises $2B Series C at $14.6B Valuation — UK AI Infrastructure Hyperscaler Bets on Sovereign ComputeUK-based AI infrastructure hyperscaler Nscale raised $2 billion Series C at a $14.6 billion post-money valuation, led by Aker and 8090 Industries, targeting European enterprises requiring GDPR-compliant, sovereign AI compute alternatives to US hyperscalers. Nscale operates dedicated GPU clusters on European soil and has signed binding agreements with multiple EU financial institutions and government agencies seeking data residency guarantees. The raise reflects a growing two-tier market: US hyperscalers for speed-to-market, sovereign infrastructure for regulated workloads.

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Craft Ventures participated in 8090's Series A.
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Salesforce Ventures led 8090's $135M Series A.
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Salesforce is funding 8090's software factory.
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