AI agents startup focused on software engineering workflows.
“Described by Harry as one of the best founders he's met in the last year — invested millions after a ~5-minute walk in Hyde Park.”
Source→“A million dollars. And you know what he gives me shit for? You know what the terms? Five posts.”
Source→“She was fucking relentless... I was like look Francesca like if you want more ownership Factory you could just join us... She was a killer.”
Source→“She is first of all she is one of the kindest and smartest people that I've met... She's so generous with her time. There is kind of dirty work investor help that she helps out with that some other investors who are more known as investors do not do.”
Source→“Alex Paul, who's one half of the Chainsmokers. And obviously people know them as the Chainsmokers. They're also incredibly good investors. Incredibly good investors. Which sometimes people are surprised by.”
Source→“When we were 30 people we had like a surge like a pretty aggressive like two week sprint and as part of it I got everyone on the team Eight Sleeps like fully free whatever $3,000 per person.”
Source→“A million dollars. And you know what he gives me shit for? You know what the terms? Five posts.”
Source→“We want to give our customers the best pricing, the best performance, the best speed for whatever task they want to do in their software development. And we want to make sure that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft are all under pressure to make sure they give the best models for as cheap, as quick as they can.”
Source→“Phase one, this was a couple months ago, was board yells at CEO, hey Mr. CEO, what's your AI strategy? ... Phase two was AI at all costs, token maxing... Phase three is the hangover, where you go and look at the bill and it's like, oh my God, we are spending so much. I have no idea what the ROI is.”
Source→“I respectfully disagree and that's why I actually think both Cognition and Factory will do very well because they're model independent.”
Source→“At factory, we're seeing things happen that we've never seen before. The size of the transactions, the speed in which they are closing these transactions, I've never seen it before.”
Source→“The killer CEOs I work with, I swear to God, Matan is reaching out to me at 10 o'clock at night, 6 o'clock in the morning.”
Source→“Windsurf, Cognition, Factory, Goose, and Cline all adopt SKILL.md.”
“Factory | AI agents for software engineering | Raised $150M Series C at $1.5B valuation; marquee agentic AI deal | Led by Khosla Ventures”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.