The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Gecko Robotics: 1 model, $345.0M raised. 13 sources back the record.
Overview
Wall-climbing Inspection robots for infrastructure. TOKA series for boilers, tanks, and bridges. Public company (private, valued >$1B).
Reality check
Cantilever (company-claimed)
AI platform uniting robot, drone and fixed-sensor data into a model of infrastructure for maintenance decisions.
Navy IDIQ contract (company-claimed)
Five-year US Navy and GSA IDIQ, $71M ceiling, assessing ships and submarines with robots, drones and sensors.
Inspection data (company-claimed)
Robots and sensors collect physical data from pipelines, boilers, tanks and ship hulls.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundGrowth Round (2025) post-money
Key facts
Robot
Product
Stage
Fundingsee investors →
Applications
Financial stage
Navy IDIQ ceiling raised (company-stated, Oct 2026)
Navy expansion scope (company-stated)
Data & sources
Government records
1
Patent documents
4
Web sources
8
13 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Gecko Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1ADNOC1× joint
- 2Cox Enterprises1× joint1 total
- 3Founders Fund1× joint2 total
- 4U.S. Navy1× joint
- 5USIT1× joint1 total
- 6XN1× joint1 total
Most recent
- Gecko Robotics x ADNOC Energy Inspection2026-05-15with ADNOCoperating
- with U.S. Navyoperating
- Gecko Robotics Series D (2025)2025-06-12with Cox Enterprisesoperating
Gecko Robotics on the deployment map
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Relationships
Claims ledger
Public, dated claims by Gecko Robotics, 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.
- VerifiedCustomer · claimed 2026-05-15
“Gecko Robotics x ADNOC Energy Inspection”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
- VerifiedCustomer · claimed 2026-03-15
“Gecko Robotics x US Navy Fleet Inspection”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
- VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-01-01
“Gecko Robotics is scaling”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
Disagree with a status? Gecko Robotics can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.
Current leadership (3)
- Troy Demmer Co-Founder & COOsecondary-verified
- Jake Loosararian Co-Founder & CEOsince 2013-01-01secondary-verified
- Marco Monteiro Co-Foundersince 2013-01-01reported, not verified
Founders (3)
- Jake Loosarariancofounderfounded 2013-01-01
- Marco Monteirocofounderfounded 2013-01-01
- Troy Demmercofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Gecko Robotics.
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 →
Recent coverage
Gecko Robotics in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Gecko Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (6)
Registry pages whose text names Gecko Robotics.
Companies (2)
Robots and products (1)
People (3)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $345.0M
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
3 total · 3 operating
Every company Gecko Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Gecko Robotics x ADNOC Energy Inspection2026-05-15with ADNOCoperating
- with U.S. Navyoperating
- Gecko Robotics Series D (2025)2025-06-12with Cox Enterprisesoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1ADNOC1× joint
- 2Cox Enterprises1× joint1 total
- 3Founders Fund1× joint2 total
- 4U.S. Navy1× joint
- 5USIT1× joint1 total
- 6XN1× joint1 total
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- deployment2026-05-15operating
- Gecko Robotics x US Navy Fleet InspectionwithU.S. Navydeployment2026-03-15operating
- investment2025-06-12operating
Funding rounds (5)
Gecko Robotics’s 5 disclosed rounds, $345M in total, oldest to newest.
- Growth Round (2025)2025-06-12
$125M(reported) · $625M post
Investors: Cox Enterprises (lead), US Innovative Technology Fund, XN, Founders Fund, Y Combinator
- Series C Extension2023-12-05
$100M(reported)
Investors: US Innovative Technology Fund (lead), Founders Fund (lead)
- Series C2022-03-04
$73M(reported)
Investors: XN (lead), Founders Fund, XYZ Venture Capital, Drive Capital, Snowpoint Ventures
- Series B2019-12-16
$40M(reported)
Investors: Drive Capital (lead), Founders Fund, Next47
- Series A2018-08-20
$7M(reported)
Investors: Founders Fund, The Westly Group, Y Combinator
Patent estate (4)
- WO2020185719A2wipopendingassignee
- US20200262261A1usptopendingassignee
- US9586636B1usptograntedgranted 2017-02-28assignee
- EP4404183A3epopendingassignee
Timeline
Every recorded move in Gecko Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipGecko Robotics x ADNOC Energy Inspection
2026-05-15ADNOC and Gecko Robotics signed three new agreements to deploy AI-powered Cantilever technology across energy assets, expand robotics operations, and launch UAE National workforce training programs.
PartnershipGecko Robotics x US Navy Fleet Inspection
2026-03-15The U.S. Navy awarded Gecko Robotics a five-year 71M contract to deploy wall-climbing inspection robots across 18 Pacific Fleet ships, inspecting hulls, decks, and structural components using AI-powered detection.
PartnershipGecko Robotics x U.S. Navy
2026-01-01The U.S. Navy and GSA engaged Gecko Robotics in a deal valued at about $71M to use its wall-climbing robots, drones, and fixed sensors with AI to inspect ships, jets, and other equipment, cutting inspection times and improving maintenance/repair accuracy across destroyers, amphibious warships, and littoral combat ships.
Funding roundGrowth Round (2025) funding round
2025-06-12Growth Round (2025) raising $125000000
PartnershipGecko Robotics Series D (2025)
2025-06-12Gecko Robotics raised a $125 million Series D (announced June 12, 2025) at a $1.25 billion valuation, reaching unicorn status; led by Cox Enterprises, with continuing investors USIT, XN, Founders Fund, and Y Combinator.
Funding roundSeries C Extension funding round
2023-12-05Series C Extension raising $100000000
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2022-03-04Series C raising $73000000
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2019-12-16Series B raising $40000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Gecko Robotics | Maritime
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (9)
- https://www.geckorobotics.com/
- https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/navy-idiq
- https://www.geckorobotics.biz/
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231026510980/en/Gecko-Robotics-Announces-the-Official-Launch-of-Cantilever-the-Worlds-First-AI-Driven-End-to-End-Solution-to-Inform-Decision-Making-in-the-Built-World
- https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/navy-idiq-expansion · 2026-10-20
- https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/20/3384234/0/en/gecko-robotics-contract-more-than-quadruples-to-300-million-to-support-u-s-navy-readiness.html · 2026-10-20
- https://defensescoop.com/2026/10/20/navy-expands-contract-ceiling-for-ai-enabled-repair-robots/ · 2026-10-20
- https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2026/10/20/us-navy-gecko-robotics-surge-ai-maintenance-contract-to-300m/ · 2026-10-20
- https://x.com/geckorobotics/status/2112491521798709676 · 2026-10-20
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Methodology: Verified · 9 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 8
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-government-record
- Government record
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Gecko Robotics.Peer companies
- ACWA Robotics1 model
- Ascent1 model
- CUES1 model
- Diakont1 model
- Eddyfi Technologies1 model
- Envirosight1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Gecko Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Gecko Robotics' USN Contract Expands to $300m
The U.S. Navy and General Services Administration (GSA) have increased the ceiling value of Gecko Robotics' maintenance and inspection contract to $300 million, more than…
US Navy, Gecko Robotics surge AI maintenance contract to $300M
Gecko Robotics uses drones, wall-climbing robots and fixed sensors to gather data on components, decks, welds and hulls.
Navy expands contract ceiling for AI-enabled repair robots
Gecko Robotics Co-founder and President Troy Demmer shared new details about the Navy's approach to fleet maintenance. The post Navy expands contract ceiling for AI-enabled repair…
Gecko Robotics secures $300M contract with the U.S. Navy
Gecko claimed this signals the Pentagon’s confidence that it is a core military capability that is delivering results. The post Gecko Robotics secures $300M contract with the U.S.…
Gecko Robotics, Anduril to Accelerate American Shipbuilding with Robotics, AI
Gecko Robotics announced a partnership with Anduril Industries to help accelerate American shipbuilding using advanced robotics, AI-powered software, and automated quality…
Gecko Robotics, Anduril team up for new Baltimore County shipyard
Gecko Robotics will utilize its inspection technology and its AI-powered software to conduct non-destructive testing (NDT) on these submarine components.
Gecko Robotics works with NVIDIA to add AI agent security and control
Gecko Robotics is using the new NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform to ensure the secure autonomous control of systems. The post Gecko Robotics works with NVIDIA to add AI agent…
Gecko Robotics lands the largest US Navy robotics deal yet
Gecko Robotics signed a five-year IDIQ deal with the U.S. Navy and GSA, starting with a 4M award and a 1M ceiling. The Navy will use Gecko robots and sensors to monitor 18 ships…
Gecko Robotics brings in $73M for inspection robots
Gecko Robotics raised $73M Series C for wall-climbing inspection robots used in power plants, pipelines, and industrial infrastructure.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/gecko-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/gecko-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/64cf2c32-a497-4be2-9f7f-4836466fc97f
- Revision history: /companies/gecko-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- ACWA Robotics1 model
- Ascent1 model
- CUES1 model
- Diakont1 model
- Eddyfi Technologies1 model
- Envirosight1 model
Heat Index
Category contender83/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Gecko Robotics draws attention at the 71st percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among inspection robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $345M raised. Thin IP estate relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 21, 2026