Cobot’s $100M and a 25-year story - by Ali Partovi

Cobot just announced a $100M Series B round led by General Catalyst. This turns a new page in a personal story that started 25 years ago and manifests the importance of our focus on people and relationships. I met Brad Porter in 1999 during weekly visits to my twin brother’s startup, Tellme Networks. Brad was a founding engineer there and a superstar that any startup would be lucky to hire. He’d been a top talent at Netscape and an exceptional MIT grad – an outlier among outliers. Brad’s subsequent ascent in the tech industry and his relationship with Neo epitomize our principles of betting on star technologists and fostering entrepreneurship by bringing diverse people together. When starting Neo in 2017, I invited Brad to be one of this nascent community’s first members. By then he’d left Tellme and was one of just 10 Distinguished Engineers at Amazon, overseeing the entire robotics division: everything from Prime Air drone delivery to sidewalk bots to 100,000s of robots across Amazon

Cobot just announced a $100M Series B round led by General Catalyst. This turns a new page in a personal story that started 25 years ago and manifests the importance of our focus on people and relationships. I met Brad Porter in 1999 during weekly visits to my twin brother’s startup, Tellme Networks. Brad was a founding engineer there and a superstar that any startup would be lucky to hire. He’d been a top talent at Netscape and an exceptional MIT grad – an outlier among outliers. Brad’s subsequent ascent in the tech industry and his relationship with Neo epitomize our principles of betting on