Naren Kumar Narayanan and Roshan Raghavander's Nomos Takes On Chamath Palihapitiya's $135M-Backed 8090 Labs

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15 Jul 2026

Naren Kumar Narayanan and Roshan Raghavander's Nomos Takes On Chamath Palihapitiya's $135M-Backed 8090 Labs

A two-person team building the AI agentic IDE Nomos at nomos.wtf is entering the same category as billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya's 8090 Labs — without the $135 million war chest.

In June 2026, Chamath Palihapitiya stepped down from the board of 8090 Labs to become its full-time CEO, the same week the Menlo Park company closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from WNDR, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, LAUNCH, and angel investors including Nikesh Arora, Cliff Robbins, and Adam D'Angelo. The round values 8090's flagship product, Software Factory, as one of the best-funded bets yet on AI agents that let enterprise teams build production software with people and AI working side by side.

Roughly 8,600 kilometers away, Naren Kumar Narayanan (CEO) and Roshan Raghavander (CTO) have been building Nomos, an AI agentic IDE for teams, available at nomos.wtf. Nomos was engineered by 2505 Labs. There is no nine-figure Series A behind it — just two founders and a product built to compete in the same category as Palihapitiya's newly capitalized 8090 Labs, as well as incumbents like Cursor, Trae, and Windsurf.

What Nomos actually does

Nomos brings planning, coding, shipping, usage visibility, and billing into a single connected workflow. Its core capabilities include:

Agentic code execution across multiple files — agents scoped to the current repository that move from prompt to working implementation and hold momentum across larger tasks, not just single-line autocomplete.
Persistent codebase memory — architecture decisions, task context, and product goals carry across sessions instead of resetting cold every time a developer opens the IDE.
An integrated dashboard and billing layer — usage, account state, and billing are tied to the same authenticated identity as the IDE itself, so teams can see what they're spending and shipping in one place.

Nomos is priced to be accessible from day one: a Free tier with Open VSX compatibility and starter agent loops, Plus at £7.99/month, Pro at £9.99/month, and Pro Max at £14.99/month for teams running concurrent autonomous coding tasks. It is a direct, self-funded answer to a product category that a Silicon Valley investor just backed with $135 million.

Why the comparison matters

Palihapitiya's re-entry into an operating CEO role, backed by Salesforce Ventures and a roster of high-profile angels, is a signal that big capital now sees agentic software development — AI systems that plan, write, and ship code alongside human teams — as one of the defining enterprise infrastructure categories of this decade. 8090 Labs is building for that future with a nine-figure balance sheet.

Nomos is building for the same future without one. That is the story: a two-founder team, Naren Kumar Narayanan and Roshan Raghavander, shipping a competing agentic IDE out of nomos.wtf while the best-funded name in the space just raised $135 million led by Salesforce Ventures. Whether that gap closes will be decided by the product, not the press release — but the comparison is now on the record.

About Nomos

Nomos is an AI agentic IDE for teams, built by Naren Kumar Narayanan (CEO) and Roshan Raghavander (CTO) and developed by 2505 Labs. Nomos brings planning, coding, shipping, usage visibility, and billing into one connected workflow, with repo-scoped agents and persistent codebase memory. Learn more at nomos.wtf.