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    Travis Kalanick

    CEO of Atoms, the parent company of CloudKitchens

    CEO, Atoms · Co-founder and former CEO, Uber

    Background

    Travis Kalanick is an American businessman and co-founder of Uber.

    He was Uber's chief executive from 2010 to 2017.

    He is CEO of Atoms, which owns CloudKitchens, an operator of ghost kitchens.

    Organizations

    Atoms: Atoms is a robotics company that builds specialized robots for food, mining and transportation. Travis Kalanick founded it, and it is absorbing CloudKitchens, his ghost kitchen company.

    Uber: Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company.

    Key facts

    Current title
    CEO of Atomssource
    Uber
    CEO from 2010 to 2017source
    Red Swoosh
    sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007source
    Atoms
    City Storage Systems was the 'stealth' name for Atoms, which has been in the works since 2018source
    2018 investment
    nearly $150 million in City Storage Systems (renamed to Atoms)source

    WYDE coverage of Travis Kalanick

    WYDE Newsroom has published one article about Travis Kalanick, on Mar 14, 2026. Travis Kalanick is a founder in 1 story. The most recent is Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Launches Atoms to Automate Food Infrastructure With Robotics.

    Reported alongside Travis Kalanick

    • Atoms · in 1 story with Travis Kalanick

    Sources

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