Gecko Robotics is making inspection robots a data system for critical infrastructure
A $125M Series D followed years of wall-climbing robot work, Navy use, Cantilever software and defense maintenance deployments.
Gecko Robotics raised $125 million in Series D funding on June 12, 2025, at a $1.25 billion valuation. Cox Enterprises led the round. CNBC reported total funding of $347 million and named USIT, XN, Founders Fund and Y Combinator among Gecko investors. The previous $173 million Series C in December 2023 valued the company at $633 million.
Founding And Product Origin
Jake Loosararian and Troy Demmer founded Gecko Robotics in 2013. The company originated from a wall-climbing inspection robot built by electrical-engineering students at Grove City College. The early robot weighed about 40 lb and used ultrasonic scanning to inspect power-plant walls for cracks, corrosion and structural issues.
Loosararian is co-founder and CEO, while Demmer is co-founder and chief product officer. Gecko robots now climb, fly and swim to inspect critical infrastructure including power plants, bridges, dams, military equipment, ships, pipelines, boilers, tanks and factory assets.
Cantilever
Cantilever launched in October 2023 as a software platform for robotic inspections, data integration and analytics. The platform integrates robotic scans, fixed-sensor data, partner systems, historical records, design files, operational data and business metrics. Analysis outputs include corrosion rates, remaining asset life, repair plans and capital-allocation recommendations.
The 2023 launch material placed Cantilever in defense, manufacturing and energy use. The US Navy uses Cantilever for ship availability tracking, repair planning and maintenance scheduling. Customer work also spans power plants, military assets and factories, with robots and fixed sensors collecting data before customer records are added to the software layer.
Cantilever collects full-coverage, high-fidelity data layers for asset analysis across baseline asset health, life-cycle analysis, capital allocation, operational risk modeling, live reporting and facility-level records. Partners named on the product page include Siemens, Marathon, the US Air Force, HF Sinclair, the US Navy, Mitsubishi, Georgia-Pacific and ADNOC.
Defense And Industrial Use
Axios reported a Gecko and L3Harris collaboration around extended-reality aircraft maintenance, with thousands of high-resolution images stitched in Cantilever to create a digital twin of a single aircraft. Axios also reported months of prototype testing with the US military.
Robots and sensors collect data where manual inspection is slow, dangerous or incomplete. Cantilever converts those scans into a common asset record for maintenance teams, plant operators and defense users. The approach depends on scan fidelity, repeatability, data QA, integration with customer records and analyst trust in model outputs.
Gecko has disclosed funding, valuation, investor names, founder background, product architecture, partner logos, Navy use and L3Harris prototype work. Public material does not yet show customer-level retention, deployment counts by industry, inspection accuracy by asset type, false-positive rates, integration time, recurring software revenue or measured maintenance savings across named customers.
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