Diego Berdakin co-founded CloudKitchens in 2016 with Sky Dayton. The company rents fully equipped delivery-only kitchens to restaurant brands.
In 2018 Travis Kalanick bought a controlling stake in the parent, City Storage Systems, for about $150M. Kalanick became its CEO.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund put in $400M in 2019. A $850M round that included Microsoft followed in 2021. By 2022 the company ran about 40 sites in 24 cities.
In 2023 it closed sites and cut staff. In March 2026 the parent was renamed Atoms, with a push into robotics.