Gatik Raises $200M Series D to Scale Autonomous Freight Operations

Autonomous freight startup Gatik has closed a $200 million Series D funding round aimed at scaling its middle-mile autonomous trucking operations across North America. Gatik specializes in fixed-route, short-haul autonomous freight — a narrower and more tractable problem than full highway autonomy — and has been expanding commercial deployments with major retail and logistics partners. For developers and engineers in the autonomy or logistics AI space, this funding signals continued investor confidence in constrained-domain autonomous systems that are already in commercial operation rather than still in R&D. The raise also highlights the capital intensity of productizing autonomous systems at scale, even in well-defined operational domains. Teams building logistics AI or autonomous systems integrations should monitor Gatik's expansion as a case study in commercialization strategy.