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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

Yesterday · twitter

If you're curious what we're up to at @physical_int, this is a good glimpse into how we think about the world :)

Apr 23 · theinformation.com
Venture FOMO Hits Robotics, as Young Startup Gets $1.5 Billion ...
Mar 12 · maginative.com
Physical Intelligence Raises $70M to Build AI-Powered Robots for ...
Physical Intelligence Raises $70M to Build AI-Powered Robots for ...
Despite huge losses, SoftBank may try a third Vision Fund - Silicon Valley Business Journal - The Business Journals
Despite huge losses, SoftBank may try a third Vision Fund - Silicon Valley Business Journal - The Bu
Jul 21 · Yahoo Finance
Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash - Yahoo Finance

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Experience

Head of Stripe Issuing, December 2012 - December 2018 (6 years)

Location

San Francisco, California, United States