The Bot company, the robotics startup founded by former co -founder and CEO of Cruise Kyle Vogt, has raised $ 150 million in a round directed by Greenoaks, According to Reutersciting unidentified sources.
Vogt founded the startup with Paril Jain, who led the IA Tech team in Tesla, and former cruise software engineer Luke Holubek. Vogt did not respond to a request for comments.
The new round of funds occurs less than a year since Vogt launched The Bot Company, which aims to produce a robot focused on household chores. The Bot company launched in May with $ 150 million From the former CEO and Github inverter, Nat Friedman, the founder and inverter pioneer Daniel Gross, the general partner of Spark Capital, Nabeel Hyatt, the CEO of Stripe, Patrick Collison, the co -founder of Stripe John Collison and the Capital Quiet.
The new startup launched about five months after Vogt resigned as CEO of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle startup that it founded in 2013 and was then acquired by General Motors. His resignation followed an incident of October 2 that saw a cruise vehicle run over and drag a 20 -foot pedestrian, after the pedestrian had been beaten by a car driven by humans.