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Caterpillar

ACTIVE
Industrial manufacturerHolding / corporate group
Caterpillar Inc.CATCatHolt Manufacturing CompanyC.L. Best Tractor Company

American manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, engines and turbines; a leader in autonomous mining systems (Cat MineStar, Cat Command).

Founded1925United States
HQIrvingUnited States
Total fundingPublicly listed on NYSE (CAT); a component of the DJIA and S&P 500.
ValuationLarge industrial company with a market cap in the hundreds of billions of USD.
01 · About

Caterpillar

Founded 1925 · Irving, United States

Caterpillar Inc. is an American industrial corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas (relocated from Peoria in 2022), formed in 1925 from the merger of Holt Manufacturing Company and C.L. Best Tractor Company. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, as well as diesel engines, gas turbines and locomotives. Its operations are split into segments: Construction Industries, Resource Industries, Energy & Transportation and Financial Products. In autonomy and AI, Caterpillar develops the Cat MineStar platform and Cat Command, enabling remote and fully autonomous machine operation; its driverless mining haul trucks have autonomously moved billions of tons of material. The company is listed on the NYSE under the ticker CAT and is a component of the DJIA and S&P 500 indices.

  • Benjamin Holt

    Co-founder (Holt Manufacturing)

    Inventor of the track-type “caterpillar” tractor; his company merged in 1925 to form Caterpillar.

  • C.L. Best

    Co-founder (C.L. Best Tractor)

    Owner of C.L. Best Tractor Company, which merged with Holt in 1925 to form Caterpillar.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

2 areas · 3 technologies · 4 industries
What they do2Areas
  • Autonomous systems
  • Process automation
How they do it3Technologies
  • Robotics
  • Computer vision
  • Edge AI
Who for4Industries
  • Industrial manufacturing
  • Construction
  • Energy
  • Transport & mobility
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Irving · 2 offices · 2 regions
GlobalNorth America
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 1925
1925founded
approx. 118,000 (2025)employees
Publicly listed on NYSE (CAT); a component of the DJIA and S&P 500.total funding
maturedevelopment stage
Publiclisted
activestatus
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

1 strategic relations · 4 brands

Strategic relations

1
  • Joint venture
    Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies — a joint venture with Trimble for machine control.
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 7 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onYesNYSE: CAT
  • Organization typeIndustrial manufacturer+ Holding / corporate group
08 · Related content

Articles

1 articles