Self-driving delivery unicorn Nuro scores $600M, partners with Google

Nuro Inc., the autonomous delivery unicorn that has partnerships with a handful of companies in Houston, boosted its valuation to about $8.6 billion in a $600 million funding, and announced a partnership with Google Cloud.

It’s the Mountain View, California-based company’s second megafunding in a year in which it has now raised $1.1 billion and seen its valuation more than triple.

The new funding comes as Nuro builds a manufacturing plant and a closed-course test track in southern Nevada. It plans…