Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
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Travis Kalanick's robotics company Atoms raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber also participating. The company is a rebranded version of Kalanick's ghost kitchen business Cloud Kitchens, and he has acquired Pronto, a heavy industry automation firm, with plans to expand into mining and robotics. Kalanick described the round as "unfinished business" to complete his vision of digitizing the physical world.