We raised a $135M Series A! 8090’s Series A was led by Salesforce Ventures and joined by WNDR, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, and LAUNCH. We also had the support of a group of esteemed angels including Nikesh Arora, Cliff Robbins, Adam D’Angelo, Shyam Ravindran, Abhi Arun, and Thomas Laffont. We’re grateful for their support. It validates 8090’s mission and traction so far, but mostly it accelerates the work ahead. The capital will go to two places. The first is hiring more people, because the demand we have is accelerating rapidly. The second is investing in the compute and infrastructure needed to keep delivering our solutions at high quality and reliability. 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. We help them win by using our AI-enabled Software Factory to design and build entire new systems, refactor old ones, and find and accelerate their edge. Our view is that as Software Factory is used more and more to do mission-critical work inside industries with the least tolerance for error and the most oversight, it will be used to bring transparency, consistency and control to work everywhere. And as we expand the potential of the biggest organizations, we are also building a playbook and a series of network effects into Software Factory that will be valuable to everyone, from SMBs to solo founders. With much gratitude, back to work… PS - A note on why I am doing this as CEO, rather than from the board. This is one of those rare moments when the technological ground is moving so ferociously underneath all of us that the decisions made in the next few years will set the stage for the next twenty. AI can be the grand equalizer. It is the thing that can give everybody a shot, and I would like to help it achieve that potential. Since I left Facebook, I was waiting for a moment like this to return to a full-time operating role. I was a demanding manager back then, but I felt I had no choice given how powerful and undeniable what we were building was. I am convinced that what we are building now is even more important, so there was no decision to make except to be all in.

Just a sneak peak! Join me on stage today 2:50pm at the @reindsummit for the official launch of Traysar, the first subterranean defense tech company

🚀 Introducing Ent: the industry’s first intent-aware Workspace Security platform for human and AI-driven work. Ent is backed by $100M led by Decibel, with participation from Sequoia, Crosspoint Capital, Craft Ventures, Shield Capital, Felicis, and In-Q-Tel. #IntentAware

After a career building and scaling startups, I'm joining @craft_ventures as a Partner to work with founders on the path from traction to real scale. Stoked to get started!

Builder, operator and investor @KyleHParrish has joined Craft Ventures. Kyle is the kind of person that makes everyone around him better. We are thrilled to officially welcome him to the Craft team!

Excited to share that @kgabura has been promoted to Partner. From day one at Craft, he has shown dedication, drive, and intensity – the same qualities we look for in founders. Over the last few years, Kevin has been instrumental in several of Craft's major investments, helped build our cybersecurity practice, and earned deep trust from founders across our portfolio. Congratulations, Kevin!

Since our first interaction with the Supabase team, we've been believers.  Our conviction continues to grow... almost as fast as their user growth 😉 Congrats to @kiwicopple, @AntWilson, and the whole team. @Mike_Robinson10 and @zzaochen on why we invested (again): medium.com/craft-ventures/al…

Supabase has raised $500M at a $10B valuation In this round we are giving @supabase employees the opportunity to cash out 25% of their vested options. We have done this in every round since inception. We do it as a “cashless transaction” so that employees don’t need to front any cash to exercise their options. This is the friendliest way we could design it until we can offer RSUs. On top of that, we give employees a 10 year exercise window: whether they stay or leave the company. The typical/default window is 3 months. IMO, equity is earned and employees shouldn't be penalized because they don't have the cash to exercise within 3 months of leaving a job (often that's the time they need the cash/certainty the most).

Huge congrats to @DavidSacks and @Mike_Robinson10 for making this year's @Forbes Midas List! forbes.com/lists/midas/

More on why we invested here: medium.com/craft-ventures/in…

Big congrats to @jefffluhr & @BRosenblatt4 on being named to Business Insider's 100 Best Early-stage Investors list. businessinsider.com/seed-100…

Extremely excited for Craft to be able to participate in @ElevenLabs' most recent round of funding. They are an incredible example of what the next generation of AI native companies looks like: bottom up, creating a wave of developer & end user love, leading directly to b2b & enterprise adoption.

Very excited to share that @craft_ventures led @ComfyUI $30M financing. Quick thread:

Most of what earned @ComfyUI a $500M valuation today was built by people we don't employ. We just closed $30M, led by @craft_ventures with @PaceCap, @chemistry, and Tru Arrow. Total: $47M. Where it goes: → Comfy Cloud → Collaborative workflows → Comfy Local → Ecosystem stability → Day-one model support We're not building a walled garden. We're building open infrastructure, the kind that lasts and empowers rather than locks in. This started as a community project. 4M users and $47M later, it still is. If you haven't built something in ComfyUI yet, come find us: comfy.org/

We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, after never spending a dollar on marketing. 4 million people decided @ComfyUI was the platform they wanted to build on, and they shaped it into something we never could have shipped alone. This funding will accelerate our mission to build an open infrastructure, the kind that lasts, the kind that empowers rather than locks in.  The core stays open, local stays first, and every part of this round goes toward building for the people who create things for a living. The next chapter of creative AI is going to be built by them, not handed to them. Round led by @craft_ventures, with @PaceCap, @chemistry and Tru Arrow joining. Total funding now $47M.

Today, we're opening @Instawork Robotics Lab (IRL), connecting the robotics industry with > 10 million skilled workers. IRL is offering the first certified workforce program for the physical AI economy ... with 20,000 @Instawork Pros already certified! 👷 Read more from @alistairmbarr @BusinessInsider businessinsider.com/robotics…

One of the biggest bottlenecks in robotics is real-world training data. Solving that is a massive growth opportunity. Doing it in a way that also creates jobs and helps workers participate in the AI economy is even better. Congrats @sumirmeghani and the @instawork team on IRL!

Proud of this one. We just raised $15M to build American-made chips for drones and robotics. For too long, the systems powering critical infrastructure have depended on fragile, foreign supply chains. We're rebuilding that foundation here in the U.S. A lot more to come!

Drones have been an interest of mine since I was 13, when I started building and flying RC model airplanes — something I still do today. As drones have become critical across consumer, commercial, and defense markets, it’s become increasingly clear how much the supply chain has been dominated by DJI and other Chinese companies. That’s why I’m excited to be working with Mike and the @HYFIXAI team to help build a stronger U.S. drone stack.

Proof on orbit + means of deployment = the world's first commercial satellite navigation constellation Our $170M in Series C funding marks the start of scaled manufacturing for our in-house satellite at our new Burlingame facility to launch our entire constellation over the coming years.