Sean O’Kane / TechCrunch:
Filings: Caterpillar acquires assets of autonomous electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor, after raising more than $200 million and struggling to pivot into software services— Monarch Tractor’s assets were acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after it struggled to transform itself into a software services company…
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