Atoms
About
About Atoms
Atoms is an industrial physical-automation group spanning food infrastructure, mining technology and transport. The renamed parent of City Storage Systems houses businesses including CloudKitchens and Pronto AI under separate operating lines.
Its robotics exposure is concentrated in mining automation, where Pronto develops autonomous haulage technology. The food, logistics and mining businesses remain separate operating lines with distinct technology stacks. The platform packages motors, frames, electronics and coding tools into modular educational robot builds.
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Funding
- 2026-07-22 - Equity investment - $1.7B - Atoms raises $1.7B equity investment led by a16z
Atoms announced a $1.7 billion equity investment led by a16z, consolidating its businesses into one Atoms equity structure. - source: a16z.news
Investors
- A* - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
- Abstract Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
- Alpha Square Group - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
- Andreessen Horowitz - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
- Bain Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
- Chemistry - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
- Fifth Wall - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
- K5 Global - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
- SV Angel - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
- Uber - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-22
Team
- Travis Kalanick - Founder and CEO
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-06 - Market Signal - Atoms reportedly builds toward robotaxi technology
Atoms is preparing autonomy-focused hiring and acquisitions. Talks with Uber do not establish a signed supply or deployment agreement. Uber's earlier investment in Atoms is context and is not treated as a new September financing event.
Source - 2026-07-22 - Funding - Atoms raises $1.7B equity investment led by a16z
Atoms announced a $1.7 billion equity investment led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz joined the Atoms board as part of the investment. The financing unified the company's businesses into one Atoms equity structure supporting physical automation across food, mining and transport.
Source - 2026-04-06 - Acquisition - Atoms acquires Pronto AI for Atoms Mining
Pronto AI says it became the core technology engine of Atoms Mining after the acquisition. The company supplies OEM-agnostic autonomous haulage systems for mines and quarries rather than manufacturing haul trucks. Pronto cited Heidelberg Materials deployments, Komatsu Smart Quarry Autonomous work and its SafeAI acquisition as part of its operating base.
Source - 2026-03-13 - Company Formation - Travis Kalanick launches Atoms as specialized robotics venture
Travis Kalanick publicly launched Atoms as a robotics and physical automation company The company is focused on specialized systems for food, mining, and transport rather than humanoid robots Atoms expands and renames City Storage Systems, with CloudKitchens rolled into the new structure
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Context
Comparable profiles
- Pronto AI
stack adjacency - Retrofit Equipment Autonomy
Shared workflows
- Hitachi Construction Machinery
workflow adjacency - Autonomous Haulage · Mining Autonomy
- Vale
workflow adjacency - Autonomous Haulage · Mining Autonomy
- Rio Tinto
workflow adjacency - Autonomous Haulage · Mining Autonomy
- Rheinmetall Provectus
workflow adjacency - Mining Autonomy
- Transmin
workflow adjacency - Mining Autonomy
Context tags
- Mining autonomy - Workflow - Atoms owns Pronto AI as the core technology engine of Atoms Mining.
- Autonomous haulage - Workflow - Atoms Mining is anchored by Pronto AI autonomous haulage technology.
- Retrofit equipment autonomy - Capability - Pronto AI's retrofit autonomy is now part of the Atoms portfolio.