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Gatik

American autonomous middle-mile trucking company (founded 2017 by Gautam Narang, Arjun Narang, and Apeksha Kumavat).

Track Gatik
Founded
2017
HQ
Mountain View, California, USA
Status
private

The verified answer

As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Gatik: 2 models, 5 deployments across 3 regions. 16 sources back the record.

Regulatory status1 Regulatory filing

Gatik holds 1 Regulatory filing, per the DEPLOY registry.

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CategoryTrucks

Appears inLogistics robots

Models

2

Deployments

5

Patents

4

Overview

American autonomous middle-mile trucking company (founded 2017 by Gautam Narang, Arjun Narang, and Apeksha Kumavat). Runs L4 autonomous Class 6/7 box trucks on fixed, repeatable short-haul routes for retail and grocery. Achieved a world-first fully driverless (no safety driver) middle-mile delivery for Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas in 2021; driverless-at-scale has been ramping since mid-2025 at still-modest cumulative volume, atop a larger safety-driver-supervised commercial footprint dating to 2019.

Verified record

Verified deployments
5 deployments on file
Active incidents
None on file

Valuation of record

DEPLOY VERIFIED
$700M (reported, approximate)as of Jun 2025

Priced roundSeries C post-money

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Key facts

Founded

2017 by Gautam Narang, Arjun Narang, Apeksha Kumavat

Fundingsee investors →

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

Data & sources

Press releases

5

News coverage

3

Patent documents

4

Web sources

4

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Relationships

PPepsiCoCustomerLLoblawCustomerWWalmartCustomerKKoch Disruptive TechnologiesInvestorIIsuzu MotorsInvestorGGatikCustomer

Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by Gatik, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 100% (3 of 3 resolved claims verified; 3 tracked)
  • VerifiedTimeline · claimed 2026-02-01 · deadline 2026-12-31
    “By end of 2026 they're going fully driverless on real highways”

    "The Wall Street Journal confirms Gatik's driverless trucks are running at scale on public roads for PepsiCo" (June 2026). Gatik has been driverless since 2020 with Walmart in Arkansas. The claim is verified — Gatik is already fully driverless on public roads. https://gatik.ai/

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  • VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2024-01-01
    “Gatik's vehicles make 4-6 trips per day on a route that is 7.1 miles round trip”

    The Robot Report confirmed operational metrics. 4-6 trips/day, 7.1 mile route, driverless. These are specific, measurable, and verified.

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  • VerifiedCustomer · claimed 2021-11-01
    “Fully driverless autonomous trucking becomes reality as Gatik and Walmart remove the safety driver”

    Walmart confirmed driverless operation in Bentonville, Arkansas. Gatik was the first to achieve fully driverless autonomous trucking. Later expanded to PepsiCo. https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2020/12/15/walmart-and-gatik-go-driverless-in-arkansas

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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Gatik, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

How do Bot Auto, Kodiak, and Einride compare for self-driving trucking?
Bot Auto, Kodiak AI, and Einride operate three structurally distinct autonomous-trucking strategies. Bot Auto runs Class 8 humanless commercial truckloads on Texas corridors via brokered freight (Houston-Dallas). Kodiak AI operates customer-owned driverless trucks at Atlas Energy's Permian Basin frac-sand operations. Einride runs autonomous electric cabless trucks under a private-road point-to-point commercial model (GE Appliances in Tennessee). Three operators, three different envelopes, three different commercial bets.Read the full explainer →

Current leadership (3)

Founders (3)

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Board (1)

Safety record

No incidents on record for Gatik.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Operator customers (2)

Brains developed (1)

Recent coverage

Gatik in third-party press

Gatik to bring autonomous freight to PepsiCo's North American supply chain

Jun 25, 2026

TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China's dominance

Jun 21, 2026

Gatik and PepsiCo deploy driverless freight across the U.S.

Jun 15, 2026

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