Agricultural manufacturing giant John Deere acquires autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics for $250M
In the world of robotic startups, acquisition is often as good an outcome as any. And when it comes to robotic tractor startups, you could do worse than being acquired by John Deere.
TechCrunch Brian Heater
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Discussion
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@reillybrennan
Reilly Brennan
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From the structured autonomy world and into John Deere https://twitter.com/...
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@gammill
Christian Gammill
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Today was a good day! We got our first exit at Industrious Ventures https://www.industrious.vc/... to none other than John Deere... All my years in the corn fields have come full circle... https://techcrunch.com/...
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@scalethemis
Themis
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Farming-as-a-Service (FaaS) transition confirmed https://techcrunch.com/...
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@graphenevcf
@graphenevcf
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Congratulations to team @BFRobotics which has been acquired by @JohnDeere to accelerate their efforts into autonomous machinery and give the founders the chance to fulfill the mission they started in 2017. This is a new beginning. https://www.prnewswire.com/...
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@tweetermeyer
E.W. Niedermeyer
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Congrats to @BFRobotics on their acquisition by @JohnDeere! The dream of ubiquitous robotaxis may be a ways off still, but companies like Bear Flag have been quietly building promising autonomy-based businesses in non-mobility fields. https://techcrunch.com/...
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@itsjeffhiggins
Jeff Higgins
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“Look Steve, nobody is going to bitch about fixing their own tractors if nobody's driving them.” https://twitter.com/...
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@giorgiocafiero
Giorgio Cafiero
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“Bear Flag's mission to increase global food production and reduce the cost of growing food through machine automation is aligned with Deere's and we're excited to join the Deere team to bring autonomy to more farms.” https://www.prnewswire.com/...