Gecko Robotics
Integrator / OEM · US
AI + robotics platform (climbing/flying/swimming robots + Cantilever software) to inspect, monitor and modernize critical infrastructure — Navy ships, power plants, pipelines.
Gecko builds wall-crawling, flying and swimming robots that swarm over critical infrastructure and collect dense inspection data, which its AI operating platform Cantilever turns into a decision model for maintenance and modernization. The robots perform non-destructive inspection of US Navy warships, power-plant assets, aircraft and pipelines — work that is hazardous or slow for humans. Cantilever lets operators predict failures, plan repairs and raise asset efficiency (up to 3–5% on power plants), and has been extended into L3Harris extended-reality aircraft maintenance. Sold into defense, energy and manufacturing.
Research mapping
Physical AI / Manufacturing, EMS & Industrial Automation (L4) / Integrator / OEM
Evidence boundary
Original analysis and independent corroboration remain under development. Commercial scale and durable technical advantage remain under review.
What makes it defensible
Owns the data-capture layer for physical-infrastructure condition assessment; Cantilever is the system of record for asset-health data.
Position in the stack: Inspection & monitoring OEM — robots + AI data platform (Cantilever) for critical infrastructure
Who buys it
Named customers: U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Shell, Chevron, Anduril
Founding team
Jake Loosararian — Co-founder & CEO — Co-founded Gecko Robotics in 2013 after graduating from Grove City College.
Troy Demmer — Co-founder & President — Co-founded Gecko Robotics with Loosararian in 2013; leads product and field operations.
SourceFinancing detail
- Last round
- $125M Series D (Jun 2025), led by Cox Enterprises
Investors: Cox Enterprises, Founders Fund, XN, USIT, Y Combinator
Mapped funds and investors
Direct relationships supported by published evidence.
Reported holdings as-of
No sourced relationships mapped yet.
Disclosed investment history
No sourced relationships mapped yet.
Showing up to four relationships in each group. ETF weights describe the fund’s portfolio, not ownership of this company. Private investment history does not establish current ownership.
Evidence & media
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Gecko Reaches Unicorn Status
What this source supports: Series D $125M at $1.25B valuation
What it does not establish: No revenue or customer count disclosed
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Gecko Robotics raises $125 million surpassing billion-dollar valuation
What this source supports: Confirms $125M Series D, $1.25B valuation, $347M total raised
What it does not establish: No profit/EBITDA figures
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Gecko Robotics Announces $71M Deal to Slash U.S. Navy Maintenance Delays
What this source supports: 5-year IDIQ, $71M ceiling, 18 Pacific Fleet ships
What it does not establish: No per-ship revenue or margin detail
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Gecko Robotics gets up to $71 million in U.S. Navy deal
What this source supports: Confirms Navy + GSA award, 5-yr $71M ceiling
What it does not establish: No revenue or unit economics
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Gecko Robotics' USN Contract Expands to $300m
What this source supports: MarineLink (2026-10-20): US Navy and GSA raised the ceiling of Gecko's maintenance/inspection IDIQ to $300M, "more than quadrupling the original $71 million award just six months after its announcement"; expanded scope includes the Komodo deck-coating/scanning system; company claims 50x faster issue identification and up to $8M per-ship repair savings.
What it does not establish: No task-order value, no ship count for the expanded scope, no revenue recognition timing. The 50x / $8M figures are company claims. Initial award figure is $71M here vs $54M in Navy Times.
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US Navy, Gecko Robotics surge AI maintenance contract to $300M
What this source supports: Navy Times (2026-10-20): independent Navy-trade confirmation that the ceiling rises to up to $300M six months after the initial agreement; initial deal described as a 5-year, $54M IDIQ covering 18 Pacific Fleet ships; drones/wall-climbing robots/fixed sensors feed AI analysis of decks, welds and hulls.
What it does not establish: Does not confirm the $71M initial figure used by the company/GLOBE NEWSWIRE; no program-office confirmation of specific ship counts under the expansion.
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Timeline
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Customer
US Navy/GSA quadruple IDIQ ceiling to $300M from $71M — six months after the March award; Komodo deck-coating scanning folded into the expansion
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Customer
$71M US Navy IDIQ (5-year) — 18 Pacific Fleet ships
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Financing
Series C: $173M at $633M valuation
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Financing
Series D: $125M at $1.25B valuation (unicorn), led by Cox Enterprises
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