https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/07/kodiak-ai-self-driving-truck-startup-don-burnette-paz-eshel-fundraise.html

The self-driving truck space is having a spate of déjà vu. A week after Uber shut down its autonomous trucking unit, one of the people who spearheaded that effort is announcing tens of millions of dollars in fresh funding for a startup working on the exact same problem.

Uber kickstarted its trucking efforts in 2016 by acquiring Otto, and now one of its co-founders, Don Burnette, has teamed up with former venture capitalist Paz Eshel to launch Kodiak, a self-driving truck startup that just raised $40 million. Meanwhile, another Otto co-founder, Anthony Levandowski is working on his own autonomous trucking startup called Kache.ai, and former Otto engineering lead Nancy Sun has launched a stealthy startup in the same space.