Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company, Atoms, raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board. The investment supports Atoms’ efforts to expand into mining and develop "atoms-based" computing technologies, continuing the "bits-to-atoms" narrative started at Uber. Kalanick aims to build a "wheelbase for robots" and replicate Uber’s impact on transportation and computing.
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