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Lachy Groom
Former Head of Stripe Issuing and Core Payments Product
Lachy Groom, Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence
Lachy Groom is the co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence (Pi), a startup that aims to bring general-purpose AI into the physical world by developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power robots and physically-actuated devices.123
Prior to co-founding Physical Intelligence, Groom had an extensive career at Stripe, where he:
- Led Stripe Issuing, an end-to-end platform for creating, distributing, and managing physical and virtual cards4
- Managed product teams responsible for Stripe's core payments product, global expansion, and enterprise users4
- Managed the global business development and operations team responsible for financial partnerships and their operations4
Groom joined Stripe as its 30th employee and played a key role in the company's international expansion into Singapore, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.4
In addition to his work at Stripe and Physical Intelligence, Groom is an active angel investor and serves as a board member at Rise.5
The founding team of Physical Intelligence includes other renowned experts in robotics and AI, such as Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Brian Ichter, and Karol Hausman.3 The company recently raised $70 million in seed funding from investors like Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, OpenAI, and Sequoia Capital.23
Highlights
Super excited to share what we've been up to for the past 7 months!
If you're curious what we're up to at @physical_int, this is a good glimpse into how we think about the world :)
