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The Bot Company, the robotics startup founded by former Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt, has raised $150 million in a round led by Greenoaks, according to Reuters<\/a>, citing unnamed sources. <\/p>\n Vogt founded the startup with Paril Jain, who led the AI tech team at Tesla, and former Cruise software engineer Luke Holoubek. Vogt did not respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n The fresh round of funding comes less than a year since Vogt launched The Bot Company, which is aiming to produce a robot focused on household chores. The Bot Company launched in May<\/a> with $150 million<\/a> from former GitHub CEO and investor Nat Friedman, Pioneer founder and investor Daniel Gross, Spark Capital general partner Nabeel Hyatt, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Stripe co-founder John Collison, and Quiet Capital.<\/p>\n The new startup was launched about five months after Vogt\u00a0resigned<\/a> as CEO of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle startup that he founded in 2013 and was later acquired by General Motors. His resignation followed an October 2 incident that saw a Cruise vehicle run over and drag a pedestrian 20 feet, after the pedestrian had been hit by a human-driven car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n