Software development automation startup 8090 Solutions Inc. today announced that it has raised $135 million in funding.

Salesforce Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Palo Alto Networks Inc. Chief Executive Nikesh Arora, Quora Inc. co-founder Adam D’Angelo and more than a half-dozen others.

Menlo Park, California-based 8090 was launched in 2024 by prominent venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya. Its flagship product is an artificial intelligence platform called the Software Factory that helps companies speed up application projects. According to 8090, the platform can both modernize existing programs and create new ones from scratch.

Developers interact with the Software Factory by authoring natural language documents that describe the application they wish to build. According to 8090, projects start with documents called Requirements. They outline the high-level purpose of an application and list its features.

After developers finalize a project’s Requirements, they author more technical documents called Blueprints. Each Blueprint describes a single application component such as a database or payment processing engine. Developers can enter granular details such as how a component should perform a given task and what external software modules it should use while doing so.

According to 8090, Software Factory uses third-party AI agents to turn user-created documents into code. The company provides a toolkit called the Agent Skill that makes it easier for agents to interact with its platform. The toolkit includes coding instructions, scripts and related resources.

One of the platform’s selling points is that it enables developers to quickly release application updates. If 8090 customers wish to extend a program with a new feature, they can simply edit the relevant natural language document. The company says that Software Factory tests updates for quality issues before rolling them out to production.

Many of the changes that developers make to an application are based on user feedback. According to 8090, its platform can analyze feature requests and extract the most commonly mentioned items. It thereby removes the need for project managers to sift through a large number of feedback forms manually.

Companies can purchase Software Factory on its own or as a part of a service called 8090 Enterprise. Customers of the latter offering can have 8090 build, host and manage an application on their behalf. The company uses Software Factory to generate the necessary code. 

“8090 works with the biggest, hardest, most demanding customers in the most regulated industries: healthcare, insurance, life sciences, aerospace, energy, manufacturing, financial services, and the United States government,” Palihapitiya wrote in a blog post today. “Companies that work with 8090 grow faster, make more money, and run more efficiently than their competitors.”

The software maker will use the capital to grow its headcount and buy infrastructure. Anysphere Inc., the creator of the Cursor vibe coding platform, powered the initial versions of its software using third-party AI models and later trained its own custom algorithms. The infrastructure investments that 8090 plans to make using today’s funding round may enable the company to take a similar approach.

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