Redwood City-based 8090 Solutions raised $135 million in early July 2026, led by Salesforce, to expand a platform that builds enterprise software using coordinated AI agents working under human-led oversight.
The company was founded in 2024 by Chamath Palihapitiya, who serves as co-founder and CEO alongside the founding team. Its pitch sits at a specific and increasingly contested layer of enterprise AI: not replacing software development outright, but restructuring how enterprise software gets built, using multiple AI agents coordinating on different parts of a build while humans retain review and decision authority over the output.
That framing -- agents doing the work, humans keeping oversight -- has become one of the more durable positioning strategies in 2026's enterprise AI market, as buyers grow more comfortable with AI-assisted development but remain unwilling to remove human accountability from software that runs their business.
Salesforce's decision to lead the round is also notable: it signals continued appetite among major enterprise software incumbents to back -- rather than simply compete with -- AI-native platforms that could reshape how their own customers build and extend software.
For founders in enterprise software and AI tooling, 8090's raise reinforces a theme worth tracking: the winning pitch in 2026 increasingly isn't "AI replaces your team," but "AI multiplies your team's output while your team stays in control."