Gecko Robotics raises $125 million in deal valuing essential infrastructure startup over $1 billion

Gecko Robotics introduced on Thursday that it raised $125 million in a Series D investment spherical, elevating the AI and robotics corporate’s valuation to $1.25 billion.

The new spherical of investment approach the Pittsburgh-based corporate has reached unicorn standing, more or less twelve years after it was once based through Jake Loosararian. The corporate’s earlier spherical of investment, a $173 million Series C in December 2023, valued it at $633 million.

To date, the corporate has raised $347 million from traders together with USIT, XN, Founders Fund and Y Combinator. Its newest spherical was once led through new investor Cox Enterprises.

Gecko Robotics, the two-time CNBC Disruptor 50 corporate, ranked No. 30 on the 2025 CNBC Disruptor 50 listing. It makes use of a number of robots that may climb, fly and swim round essential infrastructure, gaining treasured insights and knowledge at the constructions this is then parsed by the use of Gecko’s AI-powered running platform, Cantilever. That knowledge is then utilized by organizations to optimize, handle and observe the infrastructure.

The corporate works throughout a number of bodily belongings and industries, starting from L3Harris Technologies and the U.S. Navy for essential army airplane and ships; power corporations like NAES, the U.S.’s greatest impartial energy operator, to modernize and optimize energy vegetation, and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, the place Gecko’s robots investigate cross-check fuel amenities, tanks and different infrastructure.

“Gecko was built out of my college dorm room, to what it is today — the company ensuring the safety of public infrastructure, the optimization of energy and manufacturing facilities, and the modernization of militaries to deter global conflict,” Loosararian mentioned in a remark pronouncing the most recent spherical.

The corporate mentioned it is going to use the extra investment to boost up its enlargement, and its persevered push into sectors like protection, power and production. Gecko mentioned that its Cantilever running platform supplies insights that may do the entirety from modernizing C-130 airplane to recommending how an influence plant can function at as much as 5% higher potency.

“While much of the tech industry is focused on consumer AI applications, Gecko Robotics is using AI to address an important, underappreciated challenge – the building and maintenance of critical infrastructure,” mentioned Trae Stephens, spouse at Founders Fund, and in addition co-founder and government chairman of protection tech corporate Anduril, the 2025 No. 1 Disruptor, within the deal remark. “Gecko’s business continues to grow as organizations across a wide variety of sectors realize this work is more safely and thoroughly performed by sensors and robots than humans,” he added.