The Bot Company, the Robotics startup founded by former cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt, has collected $ 150 million in a round led by Greenoaks, According to Reutersstating public sources.
Vogt founded the startup with Paril Jain, who led the AI -Tech team at Tesla, and former cruises software -engineer Luke Holoubek. Vogt did not respond to a request for comment.
The fresh financing round comes less than a year since VOGT has launched the BOT company, which wants to produce a robot aimed at household tasks. The bone company was launched in May with $ 150 million From the former Github CEO and investor Nat Friedman, founder and investor Daniel Gross, Spark Capital General Partner Naubeel Hyatt, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe John Collison and Quiet Capital.
The new startup was launched about five months after Vogt resigned as CEO of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle startup that he founded in 2013 and was later taken over by General Motors. His resignation followed on an incident of 2 October that saw a cruise vehicle run and a pedestrian dragged 20 feet after the pedestrian was hit by a car driven by people.