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.
Oratomic raises a $300M Series A to pursue a utility-scale quantum computer using optical tweezer qubits, targeting 10k–20k qubits with claimed error-correction advantages and a path to market by decade’s end.
Indian on-demand home services startup Pronto lands $20M from Lachy Groom in a 20-minute meeting, valuing Pronto at $200M post-money after extending its Series B.
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