🚀 a16z Backs Travis Kalanick's Atoms, Betting on Robots for the Physical Economy
Andreessen Horowitz is investing in Atoms, a new venture from Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, with a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz joining the board. Kalanick has quietly built the company for eight years (originally as City Storage Systems/CloudKitchens), and Atoms now spans three trillion-dollar verticals - food, mining, and transport - framed as building 'computers for the physical world.' The thesis: just as digital computers automated the world of information, specialized robots and industrial AI are set to automate the physical work of making, moving, and storing goods. For fintech and investing audiences, it's a signal that venture capital is doubling down on 'AI-meets-hardware' as the next major frontier beyond software.
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