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Factory Appoints Francesca LaBianca as Chief Operating Officer

Sep 5, 2026 | By Devin Jacobs

Factory, a company focused on self-improving software development, has appointed Francesca LaBianca as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). She is the first executive to take on the role at the company.

SUMMARY

Factory appointed Francesca LaBianca as COO.
She will lead growth and product expansion.
Factory builds autonomous software factories.

LaBianca first worked with Factory while at Mantis Venture Capital, where she led the firm’s investment in the company. She later joined Factory and has spent the past two years working with co-founders Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes.

During this time, LaBianca has helped the company grow its team, expand its product offerings, and build a strong base of enterprise customers.

Factory is a platform that helps companies build and manage software factories. It can work with different AI models and can be deployed in Factory-managed, customer-managed, or fully isolated environments.

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The platform is changing how engineering teams develop software by allowing engineers to set goals and oversee results, while the software factory handles the execution and continuously improves the development process.

“Building Factory over the past two years has been the highlight of my career, and I’m proud to step into this role alongside our exceptional team,” said LaBianca. “We’re giving enterprises the power to bring autonomy to their software development lifecycle, with intelligence they own and the flexibility to deploy it wherever they operate.

“Francesca has been a key part of Factory’s growth over the last two years,” said Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of Factory. “Her talent, diligence and relentless drive have been crucial as we’ve scaled and built our product for some of the world’s largest enterprises.

About Factory

Founded in 2023 by Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes, Factory is a platform that helps enterprises build software that can continuously improve itself. The company enables businesses to run their own autonomous Software Factory, a system that can build and improve software around the clock while remaining under the companys control. Engineers set and monitor measurable goals while the system handles the development work.