Gatik raises $200 million for driverless freight

On a regional route between a distribution center and a store, a Gatik truck is already moving freight without a driver. The Mountain View, California-based company has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand those operations for retail, grocery and consumer-goods supply chains across North America.

Gatik’s approach is narrower than trying to automate every kind of haul. Its trucks serve high-frequency routes between commercial sites, using artificial intelligence to operate on highways and surface streets and to adjust routes around demand, distribution-center activity and pickup or drop-off needs. That focus gives customers a way to add capacity on repeat runs where timing matters.

The company says it has completed 85,000 fully driverless orders, has more than $600 million in contracted revenue and records 99% on-time delivery across its operations. Those figures come from Gatik. Dozens of driverless trucks are operating today, while the company says it plans to expand to thousands in the years ahead.

PepsiCo is a visible example of the model. Gatik’s first deployment with the company began in 2022, followed by operations in Texas, Arizona and Arkansas. Gatik’s expanded multi-year partnership focuses on PepsiCo’s regional transportation networks, moving products daily from site to site; Kroger, Tyson Foods and Georgia-Pacific are also named as customers.

So what changes in practice? For large retailers and consumer-goods companies, the immediate promise is not a driverless truck everywhere, but additional freight capacity on time-sensitive regional links between warehouses and stores. Gatik’s current footprint is already commercial, yet the jump from dozens of operating trucks to thousands remains a plan rather than a completed rollout. The new investment is meant to finance that expansion.