Profile
Bio
In 2016, Kyle and Cruise partnered with GM to help scale his vision for a driverless future, and in 2018 secured a $2.25 billion investment from the world’s largest technology investor, Softbank. Prior to Cruise, Kyle co-founded Twitch (acquired by Amazon), Socialcam (acquired by Autodesk), and Justin.tv, where he gained a following through an MIT email listserv ‘call to action’ and hero coded the project. A native of Kansas City, Kyle studied computer science and electrical engineering at MIT.
Career
Cruise Automation Inc - founderSelf-driving car company that develops an autopilot system for existing cars. |
Investments
Selected investments
Company | Country | Date | Notes | ||
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Triplebyte Technical recruiting platform for Y Combinator startups. |
28 Feb 2018 28 Sep 2015 |
Series A Round participant. Active |