Anthony Levandowski

Atoms hires former Uber finance chief Gautam Gupta as CFO after a $1.7B funding round led by a16z, with Uber as an investor, following the Pronto acquisition and broadening the Uber-alumni footprint.

Uber backs ex-CEO Travis Kalanick’s new Atoms with $1.7B (Uber reportedly $100M of that), led by Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz on the board, to pursue industrial AI and autonomy via Pronto, signaling continued capital rotation into mobility robotics despite past Uber-levandowski tensions.

Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raises $1.7B in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber participating and Ben Horowitz joining the board; Atoms is presented as a rebranded holding company atop CloudKitchens/Pronto, pursuing an industrial AI/robotics agenda with little disclosed product detail.