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Kiva converted an $18-33 million investment into a $775 million sale to Amazon. 

Kiva Systems founder and CEO Mick Mountz narrates a play-by-play video of how Kiva robots automate a warehouse environment.

$18.1 million of investments according to Crunchbase.

Kiva, Amazon Fulfilment

 

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Submitted by bill.james@jpods.com on Sun, 12/11/2016 - 19:30.

Kiva received a $33 million investment from Bain Capital in the mid-2000's and sold themselves to Amazon for $775 million in 2012. This is the scale of benefits from applying packet-switched networks to the mobility process.

Submitted by bill.james@jpods.com on Thu, 12/22/2016 - 11:01.

 

http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/20/technology/amazon-kiva-robots/

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2012/03/19/breaking-news-amazon-acquires-kiva...

http://techland.time.com/2012/03/21/amazons-775-million-acquisition-of-k...

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