Kalanick’s Atoms Rises from Stealth with $1.7 Billion

Kalanick’s Atoms Inc. received a $1.7 billion investment in late July. In a statement about Atoms’ future, Kalanick somewhat addressed the past. Downtown L.A.-based Atoms develops computers for the food, mining and transport sectors. The company raised $1.75 billion, according to PitchBook. “Similarly, it is inevitable that within a generation, robots are going to do most of the menial work in the world of atoms: transforming atoms, moving atoms, and storing atoms are inevitably robot tasks.”