| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.03.2026 | Kalanick Gets Out of Dodge
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| 13.03.2026 | Uber ex-CEO Kalanick rebrands latest venture Atoms, expands into mining and transport | Travis Kalanick has transformed City Storage Systems, the parent of CloudKitchens, to Atoms, adding a new focus on robotics.
Kalanick made the announcement on the “TBPN” podcast, sharing that the company has been operating in stealth for ei... |
| 27.11.2025 | Doji aporta R$ 3 milhões para expandir operação | A Doji, startup que conecta vendedores e compradores de celular por meio de plataforma própria de Trade-In as a Service (TIASS), recebeu um investimento de R$ 3 milhões em uma rodada pré-Série A liderada pela Indicator Capital. O aporte ser... |
| 23.08.2025 | VR Revolutionizes Pilot Training: Loft Dynamics Secures $24M to Reshape Aviation Safety | Loft Dynamics secured $24M in Series B funding, revolutionizing pilot training with advanced VR simulators. Led by Friedkin, with Alaska Airlines joining, this round brings total funding to $60M. The capital will expand commercial airline o... |
| 21.08.2025 | Loft Dynamics raises $24M Series B to redefine pilot training with VR simulators | Swiss VR Flight training company Loft Dynamics has raised a $24 million Series B funding round led by Friedkin with participation from Alaska Airlines and existing shareholders Sky Dayton and Craft Ventures, as well as UP.Partners.
The roun... |
| 22.07.2025 | From Strategy to Impact: Barak Diskin’s Investment Philosophy Gains Ground | Share
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LOS ANGELES, CA – In an investment world often dominated by flash, hype, and short-term wins, Barak Diskin represents something refreshingly rare: a steady voice of substance, strategy, and trust.
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| 29.11.2024 | Ghost kitchens could capture 50% of the drive-thru and takeaway markets by 2030 | Share
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A silent revolution in the food sector points to the consolidation of ghost kitchens as key players in global delivery and takeaway services
Ghost kitchens, also known as virtual kitchens, are redefining the fo... |
| 21.10.2024 | The FII Institute Unveils Stellar Speaker Lineup and Program Details for FII8 Conference in Riyadh | RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute is thrilled to announce the distinguished speakers and the full program lineup for the highly anticipated FII8 Conference, taking place fro... |
| 29.12.2023 | 2023 in review: Beyond Meat in ‘survival’ mode, ‘jaundiced’ indoor ag investors, AI in every pitchdeck… | 2023 has been a tough year for agrifoodtech startups, with high interest rates, inflation, fundraising challenges, banking scares, and souring investor sentiment in sectors from indoor ag to alt proteins, prompting pivots, layoffs, and busi... |
| 13.12.2023 | Data snapshot: 10 years of restaurant tech funding shows the rise and fall of food delivery | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 13.10.2022 | The next generation of ghost kitchens: 10 new startup concepts around the world | They never did replace the dine-in restaurant but ghost kitchens — kitchens that are not attached to a specific restaurant — are a permanent, and growing feature, of the hospitality industry. Today, early-stage startups founded in the last ... |
| 14.09.2022 | Data Snapshot: It’s still early days for ghost kitchen investment | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 07.09.2022 | Data Snapshot: Ghost kitchens lead $4.8bn in Cloud Retail Infrastructure funding; robotic fulfillment faces layoffs | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 06.09.2022 |
Bitwarden Raises $100M to Meet Online Security Demand | Bitwarden, an open-source password manager, has raised $100 million as the rise of remote work and our increasingly online lives boosts demand for digital security tools.
Growth equity firm PSG led the funding round and was joined by Batter... |
| 07.07.2022 |
Text Message Marketing Startup Emotive Lays Off 18% of Staff | Marketing startup Emotive laid off 30 people this week as the outlook on the economy continues to sour.
CEO Brian Zatulove said that 18% of the Sawtelle-based company’s roughly 167-strong workforce was cut, adding in an email statement that... |
| 27.06.2022 | A New Tide of LA Startups Is Tackling the National Childcare Crisis | The pandemic exacerbated a problem that has been long bubbling in the U.S.: the childcare crisis.
According to a survey of people in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers conducted by the city’s WiSTEM Los Angeles ... |
| 06.06.2022 | SoCal SaaS is Back With Recurring Revenue Conference | Sutton Capital Partners’ annual Recurring Revenue Conference returns June 23rd, offering for the first time a hybrid model for in-person and virtual access to the subscription economy-focused event at the Hilton Los Angeles in Culver City.
... |
| 02.05.2022 | FaZe Clan Announces New West Hollywood Pop-Up Shop | Though it’s not an invite to FaZe Clan’s Burbank mansion, fans of the Los Angeles-based esports and entertainment organization will soon be able to plug themselves into its hype house vibes with the launch of a new pop-up store.
Founded in ... |
| 12.04.2022 | Snapchat Partners With Newsrooms on New ‘Dynamic Stories’ Feature | Snap wants to be at the forefront of breaking news.
On Tuesday, the Santa Monica-based social media firm launched Dynamic Stories, which allows news organizations to more easily share their content on the Snapchat app. The feature uses a pu... |
| 07.04.2022 | Female-Led Emmeline Ventures Launches, Backs Crypto Wallet Startup | Emmeline Ventures—a new all-female, minority-led venture capital firm—has set up shop in Los Angeles, with its first check going to a local early-stage crypto startup.
The new venture firm, based in L.A. and Phoenix, is still in the process... |
| 01.04.2022 | Garrett Camp on his startup studio, its new $200M fund and what he makes of ‘Super Pumped’ | When I first met Garrett Camp in March 2007 on a reporting assignment, it was at the San Francisco-based offices of StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool that had registered more than 2 million users and drawn attention to Camp, the startup’s t... |
| 29.03.2022 | ‘Are You Guys Tech Dorks?’: Inside the Opening Night of the NFT LA Conference | On opening night of the inaugural NFT LA conference, a crowd of entrepreneurs, marketers, engineers, YouTubers, hucksters and NFT holders filed into the Los Angeles Convention Center to dish on the nascent technology that had brought them a... |
| 29.03.2022 | Fashion Tech Works Opens New Coworking Space for Emerging Designers | For Cindy Keefer, CEO of Fashion Tech Works, sustainability has always been a way of life. The woman behind Downtown Los Angeles’ new coworking incubator for designers and artists grew up a far cry from Hollywood, on an organic farm in Wisc... |
| 23.03.2022 | Snap Buys NextMind To Bolster Its AR Hardware Research | Social media giant Snap has bought NextMind, a Paris-based neuro-tech company that builds mind-controlled headbands, for an undisclosed amount.
The Santa Monica-based company said Wednesday that NextMind will bolster its augmented reality (... |
| 23.03.2022 | 1Question Aims to Gamify Educational Screen Time | After the pandemic shuttered schools and social activities, screen time among children nearly doubled as digital devices became their sole source of education, recreation and social activities.
The obsession with screens was noted in the El... |
| 23.03.2022 | Santa Barbara Cybersecurity Startups Are Having a Moment | Two cybersecurity startups that call Santa Barbara home have announced sizable Series B funding rounds.
Theta Lake, which makes security software for companies that use Zoom, Slack and similar tools to communicate, unveiled a $50 million Se... |
| 07.03.2022 | The Revolution Is Coming for the Curb—Is LA Ready? | Sign up for dot.LA's daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California's tech, startup and venture capital scene.
It may look like unassuming concrete at first glance, but the curb could be the most valuable piece of real estate i... |
| 07.03.2022 | GoodRx Acquiring Pharmacy Platform VitaCare to Make Name-Brand Drugs Cheaper | Prescription drug platform GoodRx has made its latest foray into the lucrative world of name-brand drugs with the $150 million acquisition of pharmacy services platform VitaCare, it announced Monday.
Santa Monica-based GoodRx has agreed to ... |
| 24.02.2022 | Wave Sports + Entertainment Raises $27 Million To Grow Its Sports Media Brands | Sign up for dot.LA’s daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Sports media startup Wave Sports + Entertainment (WSE) has raised $27 million in new funding from a host of investor... |
| 21.02.2022 | Art Created By Artificial Intelligence Can’t Be Copyrighted, US Agency Rules | Computers can now write poems, paint portraits and produce music better than many humans. But when it comes to the realm of intellectual property law, artwork made by machines can’t receive copyright protection, a federal agency has decided... |
| 17.02.2022 | 'Siberia Is Actually a Very Holistic Place': How Profi Founder Alina Trigubenko's Background Inspired Her New Startup for 'Soloprenuers' | Alina Trigubenko’s journey has taken her far and wide—from working at her parents’ restaurant in Siberia at age 9, to producing for one of Russia’s largest TV networks at age 18, to moving to the U.S. and founding her own startup at age 28.... |
| 16.02.2022 | Proptech Investor Fifth Wall Raises $159 Million For Its First European Fund | Fifth Wall—the Marina del Rey-based venture capital firm focused on real estate technology, also known as proptech—unveiled its first fund dedicated to the European market on Wednesday.
The venture firm said it had raised €140 million, or m... |
| 16.02.2022 | With New Funding, Auticon Looks to Grow Job Opportunities for Autistic Adults | Technology consulting firm Auticon just received a boost to its mission of helping companies hire more autistic employees.
Auticon (which styles its name “auticon”) announced Wednesday that it has received over $4 million in funding from th... |
| 16.02.2022 | Snapchat Partners With Ticketmaster to Match Users to Local Concerts | Snap and Ticketmaster are making it easier to “match” with your next post-pandemic concert experience.
On Wednesday, the Santa Monica-based social media firm unveiled a partnership with the ticketing marketplace to curate local concerts and... |
| 03.02.2022 | Text Message Marketing Startup Voyage SMS Raises $10 Million, Buys ‘Frenemy’ LiveRecover | Voyage SMS, which builds text message marketing tools for online stores, has closed a $10 million funding round as well as its first-ever acquisition, the company announced Thursday.
East Coast venture firms RiverPark and York IE led the fu... |
| 02.02.2022 | Inside Machina Labs, the AI Robotics Startup That Wants to Transform Manufacturing | The nondescript two-story building in Chatsworth still has remnants of its previous life as a coworking space; inside, there are vibrant abstract murals on the walls, meeting rooms and a full coffee bar. Only now, the ground floor is bustli... |
| 01.02.2022 | Snap Teams With Universal to Stream Its First Virtual Concert, Starring J.Lo | Social media giant Snap is teaming with Universal Pictures to present its first-ever virtual concert, starring Jennifer Lopez and Colombian singer Maluma.
The Santa Monica-based social media firm isn’t exactly hosting the event, which won’t... |
| 31.01.2022 | What Are LA’s Hottest Startups of 2022? See Who VCs Picked in dot.LA’s Annual Survey | In Los Angeles—like the startup environment at large—venture funding and valuations skyrocketed in 2021, even as the coronavirus pandemic continued to surge and supply chain issues rattled the economy. The result was a startup ecosystem tha... |
| 28.01.2022 | How LA Beverage Startups Are Using NFTs to Build Their Brands | While you can’t drink an NFT, that isn’t stopping some beverage startups from looking to capitalize on the blockchain-enabled craze.
Non-fungible tokens have gained traction in the art world, where artists and creators are using the digital... |
| 27.01.2022 | Odell Beckham Jr. Is Feeling Bitcoin’s Current Dip—But Could Have the Last Laugh | Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. may be one game away from the Super Bowl, but he’s likely feeling a little lighter in the wallet amid Bitcoin’s ongoing selloff.
If the math is correct, Beckham is heading into the weekend’s ... |
| 25.01.2022 | ServiceTitan Reportedly Files for IPO at a Possible $18 Billion Valuation | ServiceTitan—which has parlayed its field service software for contractors into one of Southern California’s most valuable tech startups—has reportedly confidentially filed for an initial public offering, Business Insider reported Tuesday.
... |
| 10.01.2022 | CloudKitchens secures $850M | CloudKitchens has raised about $850 million at a $15 billion valuation, Insider reported. Founded in 2016, the ghost kitchen startup was valued at $5.3 billion in 2019, according to a PitchBook estimate.
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| 02.06.2021 | Technology of the Future: FoodTech | Technology of the Future: FoodTech |
| 02.06.2021 | Технологии будущего: FoodTech | Технологии будущего: FoodTech |
| 03.05.2021 | Indonesia’s cloud kitchens thrive as Hangry raises USD 13 million | Food tech startup Hangry said on Monday that it secured USD 13 million in its Series A funding round led by Alpha JWC Ventures, with participation from Atlas Pacific Capital, Salt Ventures, as well as Heyokha Brothers.
The startup currently... |
| 24.04.2021 | Employees wear 'no quinoa' shirts at Travis Kalanick's startup to stave off a coddled work culture | The phrase "No Quinoa" is branded on T-shirts and laptop stickers at CloudKitchens.
The phrase comes from CloudKitchens CEO Travis Kalanick's days at Uber.
Kalanick has mimicked some of the aspects of Uber's work culture at the st... |
| 24.04.2021 | Employees wear 'no quinoa' shirts at Travis Kalanick's startup to stave off a coddled work culture | The phrase "No Quinoa" is branded on T-shirts and laptop stickers at CloudKitchens.
The phrase comes from CloudKitchens CEO Travis Kalanick's days at Uber.
Kalanick has mimicked some of the aspects of Uber's work culture at the st... |
| 23.04.2021 | Employees wear ‘no quinoa’ shirts at Travis Kalanick’s startup to stave off a coddled work culture | Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick. Reuters Thomson Reuters
The phrase “No Quinoa” is branded on T-shirts and laptop stickers at CloudKitchens.
The phrase comes from CloudKitchens CEO Travis Kalanick’s days at Uber.
Kalanick has mi... |
| 04.01.2021 | What Are LA’s Hottest Startups? We Asked Top VCs to Rank Them | Despite — or in many cases because of — the raging pandemic, 2020 was a great year for many tech startups. It turned out to be an ideal time to be in the video game business, developing a streaming ecommerce platform for Gen Z, or helping r... |
| 04.01.2021 | What Are LA’s Hottest Startups of 2021? We Asked Top VCs to Rank Them | Despite — or in many cases because of — the raging pandemic, 2020 was a great year for many tech startups. It turned out to be an ideal time to be in the video game business, developing a streaming ecommerce platform for Gen Z, or helping r... |
| 22.05.2020 | PH-listed Jollibee to invest $138m in business restructuring, to set up cloud kitchens | Premium
Philippines-listed fast-food giant Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) is spending 7 billion pesos ($138 million) for a sweeping global business restructuring, including the establishment of cloud kitchens, triggered by the coronavirus... |
| 10.04.2020 | Indian cloud kitchen trailblazer Rebel Foods raises $50m from Coatue | India’s Rebel Foods has netted $50 million funding from New York-based hedge fund Coatue Management as part of an ongoing Series E round, according to regulatory filings with the country’s Registrar of Companies.
Coatue had earlier invested... |
| 02.04.2020 | [Funding alert] Cloud kitchen startup Kitchens Centre raises $500K in seed round led by AngelList India | New Delhi-based cloud kitchen startup Kitchens Centre, which claims to provide ready-to-move-in, fully equipped, and compliant kitchens along with the essential technology to delivery-only restaurants, on Monday, announced that it has raise... |
| 31.03.2020 | Coca-Cola affiliate invests in Indonesian startup backed by Uber founder | Indonesian freight startup Kargo Technologies has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Amatil X, an affiliate of Coca-Cola.
Amatil X is the corporate innovation and venture capital arm of Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) – one of five region... |
| 08.01.2020 | Foodservice And Restaurant Trends Driving Innovation In 2020 | Every year at Mattson, we release our New Years Trends, but this year we’re doing it in two phases. This first phase is focused on food away from home, where about half of all dining dollars are spent. Following this are our consumer packag... |
| 28.12.2019 | How virtual ‘cloud’ kitchens gained steam in 2019 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When truly disruptive technology comes along, it not only leads to new types of companies — it also forces incumbents to evolve. Airbnb... |
| 28.12.2019 | How virtual ‘cloud’ kitchens gained steam in 2019 | When truly disruptive technology comes along, it not only leads to new types of companies — it also forces incumbents to evolve. Airbnb is arguably the poster child for the peer-to-peer (P2P) home-sharing movement, but it has also helped dr... |
| 26.12.2019 | Сооснователь Uber Трэвис Каланик уходит из компании | Александра Кукуть 26 декабря 2019, 09:25 Сооснователь Uber Трэвис Каланик уходит из компании
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| 19.12.2019 | On-demand delivery startup Glovo raises $167 million at over $1 billion valuation | European on-demand delivery startup Glovo has raised €150 million ($167 million) in a series E round of funding led by UAE-based investment firm Mubadala, with participation from Lakestar, Drake Enterprises, and Idinvest.
This latest round ... |
| 19.12.2019 | On-demand delivery startup Glovo raises $167 million at over $1 billion valuation | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
European on-demand delivery startup Glovo has raised €150 million ($167 million) in a series E round of funding led by UAE-based invest... |
| 23.11.2019 | Uber founder cashes out $1.5 billion in stock to pursue "ghost kitchens" | Travis Kalanick, co-founder and former CEO of ride-hailing company Uber, has sold $1.5 billion worth of shares in the company in the past few weeks.
According to documents filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission, Kalanick's lates... |
| 19.11.2019 | In the heated cloud kitchens race, Kitchen United aims to kill with kindness; here’s its playbook | Cloud kitchens, ghost kitchens, dark kitchens. No doubt by now you know a little about these businesses that are moving into underused or more affordable properties that can be turned into shared workspaces for the purposes of cooking up me... |
| 14.11.2019 | Former Uber execs launch virtual kitchen company out of stealth with $17 million | A new entrant to the burgeoning “virtual kitchen” space launched out of stealth today with $17 million in funding from a host of illustrious backers.
San Francisco-based Virtual Kitchen Co joins a growing number of delivery-only food busine... |
| 14.11.2019 | Former Uber execs launch virtual kitchen company out of stealth with $17 million | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A new entrant to the burgeoning “virtual kitchen” space launched out of stealth today with $17 million in funding from a host of illust... |
| 07.11.2019 | Uber founder Kalanick’s startup CloudKitchens said to have raised $400m | Premium
Travis Kalanick’s secretive new food startup took $400 million of funding from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter it didn’t identify.
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| 07.11.2019 | Uber’s Ex-CEO Kalanick Lands $400 Million for His Secretive Food Startup CloudKitchens | Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and former CEO of Uber, has not been in the news lately. It turns out Kalanick has been busy working on his new secretive food startup, CloudKitchens. According to a report from Bloomberg, citing Wall Street ... |
| 30.10.2019 | PepsiCo and Xinova behind new Seattle restaurant tech startup that aims to digitize ‘back of house’ | (BigStock Photo)
From food delivery to point of sale to reservation systems, there has been plenty of innovation over the past several years around the beginning and end of a dining experience. But the same can’t be said for “back of house”... |
| 17.10.2019 | ‘Cloud kitchens’ is an oxymoron | The biggest wave in consumer products right now has all the hallmarks of another bubble of misplaced investor expectations and sadly lower margins.
Cloud kitchens (the category, and not just CloudKitchens the startup service) is essentially... |
| 07.07.2019 | Taster’s AI and automation show why virtual kitchens may rule the age of delivery | The rapid rise of meal delivery services is happening in plain sight, as companies like Deliveroo and Uber Eats send riders and drivers zipping around town with takeout of every variety. But as so often happens with new platforms, a seconda... |
| 07.07.2019 | Taster’s AI and automation show why virtual kitchens may rule the age of delivery | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The rapid rise of meal delivery services is happening in plain sight, as companies like Deliveroo and Uber Eats send riders and drivers... |
| 28.06.2019 | A rare glimpse into the sweeping — and potentially troubling — cloud kitchens trend | Independent restaurant owners may be doomed, and perhaps grocery stores, too.
Such is the conclusion of a growing chorus of observers who’ve been closely watching a new and powerful trend gain strength: that of cloud kitchens, or fully equi... |
| 26.06.2019 | Taster raises another $8 million for its native food delivery brands | If you’re an Instagram user, chances are you’ve encountered a ton of ads for companies trying to sell products directly to consumers, using social networks as storefronts paired with online stores. French startup Taster is doing the same th... |
| 06.06.2019 | Пять законов футуризма: по каким правилам развиваются технологии и цивилизация Статьи редакции | Перевод материала разработчика и студента Джорджтаунского университета Уилла МакКриди о концепциях законов Мура, Карлсона, Меткалфа, Амары и Гекко.
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| 01.02.2019 | The next big bet for former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may be cloud kitchens — in China | Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may have been nudged out of one of the world’s most highly valuable private companies by investors frustrated over its troubled culture, but his moves remain of great interest given how far he’d driven the ri... |
| 07.10.2018 | The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens | If investors at some of the biggest technology companies are right, the next big restaurant chain could have no kitchens of its own.
These venture capitalists think the same forces that have transformed transportation, media, retail and log... |
| 21.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 21 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Pär-Jörgen Pärson, a general partner at Swedish growth investment firm Northzone, made a really great bet 10 years ago. He led Spotify’s Series A round in 2008.
Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From Ext... |
| 15.08.2017 | What is Agri-FoodTech? | Agri-foodtech is the small but growing segment of the startup and venture capital universe that’s aiming to improve or disrupt the global food and agriculture industry. AgFunder coined the term in 2017 to define the innovation taking place ... |
| - | Travis Kalanick, o polêmico fundador da Uber, está de negócio novo | *Por Exame.com
Travis Kalanick transformou a mobilidade urbana ao cofundar o aplicativo Uber, de transporte privado, em 2009. Mas, aos poucos, sua empresa também foi sendo transformada. Escândalos que iam da segurança ao assédio provocaram ... |
| - | Virtual Kitchen, founded by ex-Uber execs to help restaurants with delivery, raises $20 million | Founders Fund, the venture firm started by Peter Thiel, led a $20 million investment in Virtual Kitchen.
The start-up helps restaurants deliver to customers while reducing real estate costs.
Virtual Kitchen is competing with Travis Kalanick... |
| - | Travis Kalanick Building India Team For CloudKitchens | Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick may soon build an India team for his new venture, City Storage Systems, which runs delivery-only kitchens called CloudKitchens, according to media reports.
The company, which continues to operate in stealth mo... |
| - | Travis Kalanick's food startup CloudKitchens has tripled its valuation to $15 billion and tapped an Amazon veteran as CFO | Travis Kalanick took over City Storage Systems in 2018. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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