Travis Kalanick’s robotics company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board of directors following the investment. Bain Capital, Fifth Wall and others participated in the round. Perhaps most notably, Uber also joined the funding round, reconnecting Kalanick with the company he founded,
Chemistry Ventures, the venture capital firm launched two years ago by Bessemer alumni Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, is raising $500 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing. Founded by Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, Chemistry launched with a $350 million fund and invests in early-stage startups building development tools,
