{"id":"2d141fe3-5d33-4c6d-a6cc-cef24d006389","name":"Gatik","slug":"gatik","description":"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.","status":"private","founded":2017,"hq":"Mountain View, California, USA","fundingTotal":null,"type":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://gatik.ai/about/","title":"About Gatik (founders, middle-mile mission)","sourceName":"Gatik (official)"},{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/07/gatiks-gautam-narang-on-the-importance-of-knowing-your-customer/","title":"Gatik CEO Gautam Narang on the middle-mile strategy (Mar 7, 2023)","sourceName":"TechCrunch"},{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/31/gatik-expands-autonomous-box-truck-operations-to-texas-with-85-million-in-new-funds/","title":"Gatik raises $85M Series B (Koch-led); expands to Texas (Aug 31, 2021)","sourceName":"TechCrunch"},{"url":"https://gatik.ai/news/press-releases/gatik-and-walmart-achieve-fully-driverless-deliveries-in-a-first-for-autonomous-trucking-industry-worldwide/","title":"Gatik and Walmart achieve world-first fully driverless middle-mile deliveries (Nov 8, 2021)","sourceName":"Gatik (official)"},{"url":"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211108005409/en/Gatik-and-Walmart-Achieve-Fully-Driverless-Deliveries-in-a-First-for-Autonomous-Trucking-Industry-Worldwide","title":"Gatik and Walmart achieve fully driverless deliveries (Nov 8, 2021)","sourceName":"Gatik (Business Wire)"},{"url":"https://www.ccjdigital.com/equipment-controls/article/15281126/walmart-takes-safety-driver-out-of-autonomous-middlemile","title":"Walmart removes the safety driver from a Gatik middle-mile route (Nov 2021)","sourceName":"Commercial Carrier Journal"},{"url":"https://gatik.ai/news/press-releases/gatik-becomes-first-us-company-to-operate-fully-driverless-trucks-at-scale-for-commercial-deliveries/","title":"Gatik first US company to operate driverless trucks at scale; names Gatik Driver 3rd-gen (Jan 27, 2026)","sourceName":"Gatik (official)"},{"url":"https://www.pymnts.com/news/delivery/2026/gatik-autonomous-trucks-complete-10000-miles-fully-driverless-deliveries/","title":"Gatik completes 10,000 miles of fully driverless deliveries (Jan 2026)","sourceName":"PYMNTS"},{"url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/autonomous-trucking-firm-gatik-inks-contracts-worth-600-million","title":"Gatik inks contracts worth $600M (Jan 27, 2026)","sourceName":"Bloomberg"},{"url":"https://www.act-news.com/news/first-of-its-kind-freight-only-driverless-truck/","title":"Gatik: first-of-its-kind freight-only driverless truck network at commercial scale (2026)","sourceName":"ACT News"},{"url":"https://gatik.ai/news/press-releases/isuzu-invests-us30-million-in-gatik-to-develop-autonomous-driving-logistics-business/","title":"Isuzu invests ~$30M in Gatik (strategic)","sourceName":"Gatik (official)"},{"url":"https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gatik-fully-driverless-trucks","title":"Gatik launches fully driverless commercial operations (2026)","sourceName":"FreightWaves"}],"keyFacts":[{"label":"Founded","value":"2017 by Gautam Narang, Arjun Narang, Apeksha Kumavat"},{"label":"Funding","value":"Private; $85M Series B (2021, Koch Disruptive Technologies-led); Isuzu ~$30M strategic investment"},{"label":"Focus","value":"L4 middle-mile autonomy; Class 6/7 medium-duty box trucks (Isuzu chassis), not Class 8 long-haul"},{"label":"Driverless","value":"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"},{"label":"Customers","value":"Walmart, Sam's Club (Georgia-Pacific/KBX), Tyson Foods, Kroger, Loblaw (Canada)"},{"label":"Autonomy","value":"Gatik Driver (L4, 3rd-gen) + Gatik Arena simulation (on NVIDIA Cosmos); compute on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor"}],"aliases":["Gatik AI","Gatik Inc"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-05-31T05:15:36.213Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-31T05:15:36.213Z"}