The Bot Company, the robotic startup founded by the former co-founder and CEO of Cruise, Kyle Vogt, raised $ 150 million in a round led by Greenoaks, According to Reutersciting anonymous sources.
Vogt founded the startup with Paril Jain, who led the AI technology team to Tesla, and the former cruise engineer Luke Holoubek. Vogt did not respond to a request for comments.
The new financing series has occurred less than a year since Vogt launched the Bot company, which aims to produce a robot focused on household chores. Bot’s company was launched in May with 150 million dollars Of the former CEO and investor Nat Friedman, founder and investor of pioneer Daniel Gross, general partner of Spark Capital Nabeel Hyatt, CEO of Stripe Patrick Collison, the co -founder of Stripe John Collison and Quiet Capital.
The new startup was launched approximately five months after the resignation of Vogt as CEO of Cruise, the startup of autonomous vehicles which he founded in 2013 and was then acquired by General Motors. His resignation followed an incident of October 2 which saw a cruise vehicle flowing and sliding a 20 -foot pedestrian, after the pedestrian was struck by a car focused on the man.
