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The Bot Company , the robotics startup founded by former Cruise Centennial State - founding father and CEO Kyle Vogt , has fire $ 150 million in a rhythm top by Greenoaks , allot to Reuters , citing unnamed source . Vogt launch the inauguration with Paril Jain , who led the AI tech team at Tesla , and former Cruise computer software technologist Luke Holoubek . Vogt did not reply to a petition for gossip .
The fresh round of funding comes less than a year since Vogt launched The Bot Company , which is aiming to grow a robot focused on home task . The companylaunched in Maywith$150 millionfrom former GitHub CEO and investor Nat Friedman , Pioneer founder and investor Daniel Gross , Spark Capital general partner Nabeel Hyatt , Stripe CEO Patrick Collison , Stripe co - founder John Collison , and Quiet Capital .
The new inauguration was launch about five months afterVogt resignedas CEO of Cruise , the self-governing vehicle startup that he founded in 2013 and was later acquired by General Motors . His resignation espouse an October 2 incident that saw a Cruise vehicle run over and drag a footer 20 foot , after the footer had been shoot by a man - driven car .
