💡 Travis is Back: a16z Backs Kalanick's Atoms

💡 Travis is Back: a16z Backs Kalanick's Atoms
Andreessen Horowitz is backing Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick's new company Atoms, with Ben Horowitz joining the board. Kalanick quietly built the venture for eight years (originally as City Storage Systems/CloudKitchens) before re-emerging with three units — Atoms Food, Atoms Mining, and Atoms Transport — applying 'industrial AI' and robotics to atoms-heavy, trillion-dollar industries. Reports peg the round at $1.7B, one of a16z's largest bets on physical AI/robotics to date. The essay frames this as a broader thesis: after software ate the digital world, robots and AI will next automate the world of atoms.
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