# Gatik: company

Canonical ID: `2d141fe3-5d33-4c6d-a6cc-cef24d006389`

## Key facts

- **Founded:** 2017 by Gautam Narang, Arjun Narang, Apeksha Kumavat
- **Funding:** Private; $85M Series B (2021, Koch Disruptive Technologies-led); Isuzu ~$30M strategic investment
- **Focus:** L4 middle-mile autonomy; Class 6/7 medium-duty box trucks (Isuzu chassis), not Class 8 long-haul
- **Driverless:** World-first middle-mile driverless (Walmart, Bentonville AR, Nov 2021); driverless-at-scale ramping since mid-2025, modest cumulative volume (10,000+ driverless miles, 60,000+ driverless orders); broader supervised commercial footprint since 2019
- **Customers:** Walmart, Sam's Club (Georgia-Pacific/KBX), Tyson Foods, Kroger, Loblaw (Canada)
- **Autonomy:** Gatik Driver (L4, 3rd-gen) + Gatik Arena simulation (on NVIDIA Cosmos); compute on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor

- **Slug:** gatik
- **Status:** private
- **Founded:** 2017
- **HQ:** Mountain View, California, USA

## Models

- [Gatik Autonomous Box Truck](/models/gatik-box-truck.md) (truck) (id: `f35d5878-46ae-40e0-997b-0f313ce5381b`)

## Supplies to

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## Sources (12)

1. https://gatik.ai/about/
2. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/07/gatiks-gautam-narang-on-the-importance-of-knowing-your-customer/
3. https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/31/gatik-expands-autonomous-box-truck-operations-to-texas-with-85-million-in-new-funds/
4. https://gatik.ai/news/press-releases/gatik-and-walmart-achieve-fully-driverless-deliveries-in-a-first-for-autonomous-trucking-industry-worldwide/
5. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211108005409/en/Gatik-and-Walmart-Achieve-Fully-Driverless-Deliveries-in-a-First-for-Autonomous-Trucking-Industry-Worldwide
6. https://www.ccjdigital.com/equipment-controls/article/15281126/walmart-takes-safety-driver-out-of-autonomous-middlemile
7. https://gatik.ai/news/press-releases/gatik-becomes-first-us-company-to-operate-fully-driverless-trucks-at-scale-for-commercial-deliveries/
8. https://www.pymnts.com/news/delivery/2026/gatik-autonomous-trucks-complete-10000-miles-fully-driverless-deliveries/
9. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/autonomous-trucking-firm-gatik-inks-contracts-worth-600-million
10. https://www.act-news.com/news/first-of-its-kind-freight-only-driverless-truck/
11. https://gatik.ai/news/press-releases/isuzu-invests-us30-million-in-gatik-to-develop-autonomous-driving-logistics-business/
12. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gatik-fully-driverless-trucks

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