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The company's name, product, and customers were not disclosed in the announcement. What is confirmed: investors handed Palihapitiya a nine-figure Series A for a company the public has not seen. The round lands as venture capital continues to pour into AI coding tools, a category that has absorbed hundreds of millions of dollars over the past two years without showing clear signs of saturation.\n\nA $135M Series A is large even by standards that have normalized eight-figure raises for pre-launch AI tools. More notable is Palihapitiya taking the CEO seat — media-savvy investors occasionally co-found companies, but running one is a different job. Whether name recognition that moves capital also translates to product judgment is the question a stealth launch conveniently defers.\n\nThe AI coding space already has well-funded, established players. 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