SoftBank Invests $940 Million in Nuro for Driverless Deliveries

Autonomous technology startup Nuro said on Monday it raised $940 million from SoftBank Group Corp, which valued the Silicon Valley-based company at $2.7 billion......»»

Autonomous technology startup Nuro said on Monday it raised $940 million from SoftBank Group Corp, which valued the Silicon Valley-based company at $2.7 billion......»»

A large pizza with no driver is a delivery order that some Domino's customers in Houston can make beginning next week, thanks to a deal with Nuro Inc. announced on Monday. The Mountain View startup's autonomous vehicles will start with limited .....»»

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said Thursday that it has invested in Nuro, an autonomous delivery company. Chipotle didn't offer financial details, but says it's the first "sig.....»»

California's Department of Motor Vehicles on Wednesday approved a license for Mountain View, Calif.-based Nuro to deploy its autonomous vehicles on public streets to make commercial deliveries......»»

The Mountain View company said it would use its autonomous Toyota Prius vehicles in one city in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties and with one partner in the early part of 2021......»»

Nuro Inc., the self-driving delivery unicorn founded by a couple of ex-Googlers, can now make deliveries in vehicles that don't have steering wheels, pedals, side view mirrors and other safety features normally required by the federal government. .....»»

A SoftBank Corp subsidiary said on Wednesday it had invested $125 million in an Alphabet Inc company that is working to fly cellphone antennas high in the atmosphere to provide internet in areas that are difficult to reach......»»

A SoftBank Corp business seeking to find a way to fly cellphone antennas high in the atmosphere to provide internet in underserved areas said on Wednesday it was investing $125 million in an Alphabet Inc spinoff working on the same problem......»»

Step aside Tesla and Uber: there is a new-selfdriving cool kid in town. On Thursday morning, tech-investing giant SoftBank Vision.....»»

SoftBank’s tech-focused Vision Fund will invest $2.25 billion in General Motors’s driverless-car unit, as the auto maker battles tech companies and startups in a race to commercialize autonomous vehicles......»»

Kroger, the largest U.S. supermarket chain by sales, said it would work with electric-vehicle startup Nuro to test what they called the world’s first driverless grocery deliveries......»»

SoftBank Group is raising its bet on the real-estate sector, as the Japanese conglomerate’s tech-focused Vision Fund has invested $400 million in online homebuying marketplace Opendoor Labs, the companies said......»»

SoftBank Group is raising its bet on the real-estate sector, as the Japanese conglomerate’s tech-focused Vision Fund has invested $400 million in online homebuying marketplace Opendoor Labs......»»

TechCrunch reports that SoftBank, a Japanese multinational holding group, has led a $940 m.....»»

Japan's SoftBank Group has provided nearly half the cash for the new $400 million fund by Abu Dhabi's state-owned Mubadala Investment Co that aims to back European start-ups, the Financial Times reported on Monday......»»

Japan's SoftBank Group has provided nearly half of the cash for Abu Dhabi's state investor Mubadala Investment Co's new $400 million fund investing in European start-ups, a source familiar with the matter said......»»

Nationwide's VC arm has joined a $260 million round that values a San Francisco extended warranty startup as a unicorn......»»

Softbank's Vision Fund is the world's largest tech ven.....»»

The firm typically invests $5 million to $30 million of capital in the form of debt and equity into high-growth middle-market companies......»»