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Atoms is Travis Kalanick's industrial automation and robotics company, built out of his CloudKitchens holding company (rebranded Atoms in 2026) and the acquisition of Anthony Levandowski's automation firm Pronto. It builds physical automation for food, mining, and transport — software-controlled robotics to digitize and automate heavy industry. The $1.7B round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board.

Low-cost, deployment-ready robotic labor for warehouses

The AI-native trading company: China factory-direct for US importers

Auger is a new supply chain startup founded by former Amazon executive Dave Clark. The company focuses on innovative solutions to streamline supply chain processes. With a significant financial backing of $100 million, Auger aims to enhance operational efficiency in logistics. Its mission is to transform the way businesses manage their supply chains.

Founded in 2011, Freepoint is based in Stamford, Connecticut, and employs more than 600 people worldwide. The company is a global merchant of physical commodities, providing customers with physical supply and logistics chain management and services, along with environmentally friendly products and solutions.

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers from LEO to GEO. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.