The autonomous vehicle space is starting to look like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is build a robotics company againand the talent and capital wars are intensifying in the same way they did the first time. The money is coming back and it is the people who lived through that first wave who are building the next one.
humble robotics Founder and CEO Eyal Cohen is one of them. Cohen was at Otto when Uber came calling, then followed Anthony Levandowski to Pronto, and after two decades bouncing between deep tech bets in the Bay Area, his new company emerged from stealth in April with $24 million to build a fully autonomous, wire-free electric cargo transporter.
Cohen joins Kirsten Korosec on this episode of TechCrunch Equity podcast to talk about AV déjà vu and what he’s learned over 15 years building startups in electrification, solar, and robotics.
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