As Locomation’s future remains unclear, here’s a look at why funding can be a challenge for even the most promising tech companies

In the fast-moving startup world, a year of changes can happen in a week — or feel that way, at least. Instead of trucks operating with full autonomy, Locomation’s signature tech instead had an autonomous truck following behind a human-operated one in a convoy. As we heard in October when fellow Pittsburgh AV company Argo AI shut down, startups often fail, for a plethora of reasons. “It’s easy to raise another round of money, but what if the company doesn’t do what was expected of it? This talent is essential to continue to move the innovation in our region in a forward direction,” Senior Director of Talent and Workforce Development Initiatives Marie Pelloni told Technical.ly in an email.