Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO
Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup, Atoms, has hired former Uber finance chief Gautam Gupta as its new CFO. This move continues a pattern of Kalanick recruiting former Uber colleagues to his new venture, which recently secured $1.7 billion in funding.
Why it matters
The hiring highlights the ongoing influence of Kalanick's former Uber network in the industrial AI and robotics sector.
Another former Uber executive is joining Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms, just a few weeks after it raised $1.7 billion.
Gautam Gupta, the former finance chief under Kalanick, said in social media posts on Wednesday that he has has joined Atoms as chief financial officer. Gupta spent more than four years at Uber until he left in July 2017, just a few weeks after Kalanick resigned as CEO. (Gupta had announced his intention to leave that May.)
Hiring Gupta continues a trend of Kalanick getting the Uber band back together at Atoms. Earlier this year, Atoms acquired mining autonomy startup Pronto , which is run by former Uber (and former Google) self-driving engineer Anthony Levandowski. According to LinkedIn, a number of former top Uber employees who worked with Kalanick also work at Atoms, which was previously called CloudKitchens.
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