--- title: Kalanick raises $1.7B for Atoms, and Uber invests too description: Travis Kalanick has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial AI and robotics company built in stealth. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kalanick-raises-1-7b-for-atoms-and-uber-invests-too-rdqqastre twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kalanick raises $1.7B for Atoms, and Uber invests too | daily.dev og:description: Travis Kalanick has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial AI and robotics company built in stealth. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kalanick-raises-1-7b-for-atoms-and-uber-invests-too-rdqqastre og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RDQQasTrE.png og:image:alt: Kalanick raises $1.7B for Atoms, and Uber invests too og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kalanick raises $1.7B for Atoms, and Uber invests too **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Travis Kalanick has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial AI and robotics company built in stealth. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber — the company that ousted Kalanick in 2017 — among the backers. Atoms targets unglamorous industrial sectors like mining, construction, heavy transport, and food, using purpose-built specialized machines rather than general-purpose humanoid robots. The company is structured into three divisions: Atoms Food (incorporating CloudKitchens), Atoms Mining (built on the acquisition of Pronto, run by Anthony Levandowski), and Atoms Transport. Despite the massive funding and grand vision, Atoms has yet to demonstrate deployed industrial robots at scale, and no valuation was disclosed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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