Vancouver entrepreneur Roger Hardy is one of the many ultra-rich technology investors backing the humanoid robot venture Figure AI.
“I put over US$3 million into this deal,” Hardy told BIV.
Bloomberg first reported that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and large technology companies, such as Nvidia (Nasdaq:NVDA), had pumped approximately US$675 million into the new venture, in a funding round that valued the company at about US$2 billion.
Others financing Figure AI include ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, and its main investor, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT).
LG Innotek, Parkway Venture Capital and Align Ventures are other investors backing the project.
Hardy built Coastal Contacts Inc. into an online eyewear behemoth and sold the company
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