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Waymo raises $2.25B from Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, parent-company Alphabet, and others to scale up its autonomous vehicles operations

Waymo, the autonomous vehicles division of Google parent company Alphabet, just got a massive capital infusion from a coterie of investors.

VentureBeat Kyle Wiggers

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  • @katies Katie Jacobs Stanton on x
    Cool, cool. In 2019, VCs invested $3.5 billion in all-female led teams. https://twitter.com/...
  • @ronamadeo Ron Amadeo on x
    Imagine investing in the world's leading self-driving car company. What a golden ticket. Also outside investors hopefully means Google's cost cutters will leave Waymo alone. https://blog.waymo.com/...
  • @ericjhonsa Eric Jhonsa on x
    In case there were any doubts about $GOOG doubling down on Waymo, they just disappeared. But it's notable that no automakers appear to be involved in this funding round. https://venturebeat.com/...
  • @gwestr Greg Wester on x
    If Elon Musk put all $2.3B he raised into autopilot, we'd have a real race to level 4 But he can't do that because he is focused on EVERYTHING https://twitter.com/...
  • @sundarpichai Sundar Pichai on x
    Exciting day @Waymo with the announcement of their first external investment round. Great to see the team's progress to date and their long-term commitment to making roads safer for everyone. https://twitter.com/...
  • @johnkrafcik John Krafcik on x
    We're grateful to have these new partners join our mission to make it safe & easy for people & things to get where they're going ➡️ Waymo One (moving people) & Waymo Via, our new goods delivery service 🚚 https://twitter.com/...
  • @stevekovach Steve Kovach on x
    This massive outside investment is a signal Alphabet's Other Bets need much more money than Alphabet itself is willing to invest. Verily raised an external $1 billion round last year. https://www.cnbc.com/...
  • @lebeaucarnews Phil LeBeau on x
    Waymo raises $2.25 Billion in its first external investment round. Investors include: Silver Lake, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Mubdala Investment Company, Magna, Andreesen Horowitz and Autonation
  • @mhbergen Mark Bergen on x
    Also notably in this round: the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. https://twitter.com/...
  • @stevekovach Steve Kovach on x
    AutoNation also invested, but just $50 million, per SEC filing https://www.cnbc.com/...
  • @waymo @waymo on x
    We announced our first external investment round, led by Silver Lake, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, & Mubadala Investment Company. Add'l investors in our initial $2.25 billion close: Magna International, Andreessen Horowitz, AutoNation, & Alphabet https://blog.waymo.com/.…