Tag: chris urmson
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The Station: Rivian rolls towards an IPO and Quantumscape makes a big battery hire
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages move (today and in the future) from Point A to…
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Fresh off a $530M round, Aurora acquires lidar startup Blackmore
Aurora, the self-driving Automobile startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, is in an acquiring mood. The company, founded in early 2017 by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell, announced Thursday that it acquired lidar company Blackmore. The Blackmore purchase follows a second smaller, and previously unknown, acquisition of 7D Labs that occurred earlier…