Vogt’s departure came after an incident on October 2 where a pedestrian was struck by a human-driven car and subsequently dragged by a Cruise vehicle for 20 feet.
. The Bot Company, a robotics startup co-founded by Kyle Vogt, former co-founder and CEO of Cruise, has secured a $150 million investment in a funding round led by Greenoaks, as reported by Reuters citing anonymous sources.
Vogt partnered with Paril Jain, who previously headed the AI tech team at Tesla, and Luke Holoubek, a former software engineer at Cruise, to establish the startup. Vogt has not yet responded to requests for comments.
This new funding injection comes less than a year after the launch of The Bot Company by Vogt with a focus on creating robots designed for household tasks. In May, the company received an initial investment of $150 million from key figures such as Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub, Daniel Gross, founder of Pioneer, Nabeel Hyatt from Spark Capital, Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, John Collison, co-founder of Stripe, and Quiet Capital.
The establishment of this new startup follows Vogt’s resignation as CEO of Cruise, the self-driving vehicle company he founded in 2013, which was later acquired by General Motors né?
