Bezos-backed Figure AI attracts Vancouver investment

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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