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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Waymo raised.
Companies Waymo acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming Waymo. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Robot data analysis startup Alloy Robotics has raised $11.5 million in a seed round led by Square Peg, with Blackbird and Airtree participating, less than a year after a $4.5 million pre-seed.
Robotics AI startup Alloy has banked an $8m seed at an $80m valuation, led by Square Peg with Blackbird, Airtree and Skip Capital back again; funds earmarked for engineering hires and growth in the US.
Mobility newsletter: a new autonomy index puts Chinese robotaxi operators on top; Cargofy raises $11m, XDOF $70m; Carro buys CarPlace; plus driverless partnerships and a Waymo recall.
Galileo Ventures argues Australia risks missing the AI revolution, proposes a five-pillar national investment strategy, and announces Fund II to back AI founders, citing its Fund I portfolio and Airtrunk's sale as evidence.
Zoox co-founder Tim Kentley-Klay's new robotics venture HYPR has raised a US$10 million seed round from Andrew Forrest and R7 Partners at a reported US$200 million valuation; Zoox was earlier sold to Amazon.
Amazon is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire self-driving startup Zoox, whose backers include Mike Cannon-Brookes' Grok Ventures, at a valuation below its previous raises, per the Wall Street Journal.
AFR's driverless-car topic hub: NRF puts $30m into Melbourne maker Applied EV, alongside Waymo's Sydney robotaxi plans, Uber's robotaxi spend, union demands and a progressing Mycar sale.