The company was formerly called CloudKitchens and was led by Diego Berdakin, an early Uber investor.

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has found his new job. 

The controversial Silicon Valley entrepreneur is joining a startup called City Storage Systems that focuses on repurposing distressed real estate assets like parking lots or abandoned strip malls and turning them into spaces suited for new industries, such as food delivery or online retail. 

The company was formerly called CloudKitchens and was led by Diego Berdakin, according to a source, a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur and an early Uber investor. Kalanick will be the new CEO and is investing $150 million into the 15-person startup, a sum that will buy out most of the existing outside investors, the source said, including previous backers like prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, whose Social Capital quietly led the company’s most recent financing round. Social Capital declined to comment.

Kalanick will now have a controlling interest in the holding company.

Another involved investor and a co-founder of the company is Sky Dayton,....

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Two of its business focuses are on buying and repurposing real estate assets in the food and retail space, according to Kalanick. The company will work with parking and industrial assets and optimize them for new online-focused ventures.

“There are over $10 trillion in these real estate assets that will need to be repurposed for the digital era in the coming years,” he wrote.