Facts

• Segment: Logistics
• Founded: 2017
• Website: https://gatik.ai/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Customers and deployments
• Articles
• Sources

Summary

Gatik develops autonomous box trucks for middle-mile logistics routes between distribution centers, warehouses and stores. Its driverless freight operations target short, repeatable B2B routes for retailers, grocers and consumer-goods companies.

Market context

Gatik is one of the clearer commercial autonomous-logistics operators because its model is built around fixed-route customer freight rather than open-ended robotaxi service.

Facts

• Website: https://gatik.ai/
• HQ: Mountain View
• Founded: 2017
• Segment: Logistics
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2024-08-21 - Strategic investment - Gatik secures strategic investment from NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS to expand North American middle-mile logistics - source: gatik.ai
• 2021-08-31 - Series B - $85M - Gatik raises USD 85M Series B for autonomous middle-mile trucks - source: gatik.ai

Investors

• NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-21
• Dynamo Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-31
• FM Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-31
• Innovation Endeavors - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-31
• Intact Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-31
• Koch Disruptive Technologies - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-31
• Trucks VC - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-31
• Wittington Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-31

Autonomous middle-mile freight routes

Gatik operates autonomous middle-mile logistics vehicles for fixed B2B freight routes.

• Target environment: Retail, grocery, distribution and logistics corridors with repeatable hub-to-store or hub-to-hub routes.
• Deployment model: Autonomous-truck operations model built around constrained, repeatable routes rather than open-ended robotaxi service.
• Customer context: Retailers, grocers and logistics operators with predictable middle-mile freight needs.
• Workflow context: Autonomous box trucks move goods between fixed points, reducing driver dependency on repetitive short-haul routes.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial autonomous-logistics operator with customer deployments and a focused route model.
• Market position: Positioned as one of the clearer autonomy companies in fixed-route B2B freight.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on route safety validation, regulation, customer operations, vehicle uptime and cost per route.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent systems include autonomous delivery vans, warehouse AMRs, yard automation and middle-mile logistics software.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2025-03-20 - Production Milestone - Gatik and Isuzu team up to mass-produce SAE Level 4 production-ready autonomous trucks powered by NVIDIA - Gatik said it is working with Isuzu and NVIDIA to mass-produce SAE Level 4 a…
• 2025-03-18 - Partnership - Gatik to accelerate mass production of SAE Level 4 production-ready autonomous trucks built on NVIDIA in-vehicle compute - Gatik announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to deploy the NVIDIA DRIV…
• 2024-09-19 - Executive Hire - Gatik welcomes Clint Kneip as head of first responder engagement to advance safety and compliance in freight-only autonomous vehicle operations - Gatik announced the appointment of Clint Kn…
• 2024-08-21 - Funding - Gatik secures strategic investment from NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS to expand North American middle-mile logistics - Gatik announced a strategic investment from NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS to support expa…
• 2021-08-31 - Funding - Gatik raises USD 85M Series B for autonomous middle-mile trucks - Koch Disruptive Technologies led the round.

Operations / Deployments

• 2025-03-20 - Production Milestone - Gatik and Isuzu team up to mass-produce SAE Level 4 production-ready autonomous trucks powered by NVIDIA - Gatik said it is working with Isuzu and NVIDIA to mass-produce SAE Level 4 a…
• 2025-03-18 - Partnership - Gatik to accelerate mass production of SAE Level 4 production-ready autonomous trucks built on NVIDIA in-vehicle compute - Gatik announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to deploy the NVIDIA DRIV…

Supply chain relationships

• Isuzu North America Corporation - OEM production partner - Mass production path for SAE Level 4 autonomous trucks with Isuzu and NVIDIA (Gatik blog).

Relationships

• Loblaw - joint_venture - Gatik and Loblaw expanded autonomous trucking operations in Canada through a joint autonomous delivery network.
• Strategic investor - NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS made a strategic investment to expand Gatik's North American middle-mile logistics network.
• NVIDIA - Autonomous trucking partner - Gatik uses NVIDIA DRIVE AGX / Thor in-vehicle compute for Level 4 autonomous truck production.
• PepsiCo - autonomous freight provider - Gatik driverless trucks operate freight routes for PepsiCo across Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas.

Customers and deployments

• States In Operation - 3 states - 2026-06-08 - PepsiCo - autonomous freight - Gatik is operating autonomous freight for PepsiCo across Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas as part of a multi-year North American commercial deploy…
• Production Status - mass-production path for Level 4 autonomous trucks - 2025-03-20 - Isuzu / NVIDIA - autonomous truck production - Gatik said it was working with Isuzu and NVIDIA to mass-produce SAE Level 4 production…

Articles

• 2026-01-27 - Gatik is building driverless freight trucks into retail supply routes - A January 27, 2026 driverless fleet record, 60,000 orders, and 600 million dollars in contracted revenue give Gatik a middle-mile frei…