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Autonomous middle-mile trucking. First US company to operate fully driverless trucks at commercial scale. $600M in contracts. Founded 2017, Mountain View. $273M raised.
Gatik AI was founded in 2017 in Mountain View, California, by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Edinburgh with the mission of making autonomous trucking commercially viable by focusing on the middle mile — the fixed, repeatable B2B routes between distribution centers, warehouses, and retail locations. Unlike long-haul autonomous trucking companies pursuing complex, unpredictable highway routes, Gatik's operational design domain strategy restricts its vehicles to known, mapped corridors where the constrained environment allows for earlier commercial deployment and faster safety case accumulation.\n\nGatik operates Class 3–6 autonomous trucks on B2B delivery routes for major retail and logistics customers, including Walmart, Loblaw, and Georgia-Pacific. Its proprietary autonomy stack handles route navigation, obstacle detection, loading dock operations, and multi-stop delivery sequences within its defined operational corridors. Gatik became the first US company to commercially operate fully driverless trucks — with no safety driver onboard — at scale, a milestone that validates its safety case methodology and positions it ahead of competitors still requiring human supervision.\n\nGatik has secured $600M in contracted revenue from its customer base, providing revenue visibility unusual for an autonomous vehicle company at its stage. The company raised over $100M in total funding and has expanded its geographic footprint across multiple US states and Canada. Gatik's middle-mile focus, commercial driverless operations milestone, and long-term customer contracts differentiate it from both fully driverless trucking moonshots like Waymo Via and traditional fleet management technology companies, positioning it as the most commercially grounded autonomous middle-mile operator in North America.
Raised $150M debt (Jan 2026). $1.2B total funding backed by Embraer. Completed first full-scale eVTOL flight Dec 2025. 300 test flights planned in 2026.
Eve Air Mobility is an eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) company backed by Embraer, the Brazilian aerospace manufacturer, giving it supply chain, manufacturing, and certification expertise that pure-software eVTOL startups lack. The company secured $150 million in debt financing in January 2026 from Itaú, Citibank, and Mitsubishi UFJ, bringing total funding to $1.2 billion and confirming a runway through 2028.
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