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Atoms, a startup led by Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick, has closed a $1.7 billion investment.

A new joint venture called Tekta will provide Publicis Sports clients with access to a sprawling network of college athletes and unified measurement.

Travis Kalanick certainly has had a love-hate relationship with VCs over his career. As the founder of Uber he was a VC darling, raising what was then an unprecedented roughly $15 billion in venture funding during his tenure. Then, a boardroom battle with key investor Bill Gurley of venture firm Benchmark led to him being…

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board following the investment.

Travis Kalanick is putting the band back together. His industrial-robotics startup Atoms has hired Gautam Gupta, who ran Uber’s finances during Kalanick’s tenure, as its new chief financial officer.

Another former Uber executive is joining Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms, just a few weeks after it raised $1.7 billion.