Gather AI

Gather AI is a Pittsburgh-headquartered company that builds what it calls a Physical AI or Physical Intelligence Platform for logistics. The platform uses AI-powered computer vision on consumer-grade hardware — cameras mounted on material handling equipment such as forklifts to read inventory in motion, and off-the-shelf drones to read inventory at rest — to digitize pallets, locations, tasks and movements without infrastructure changes. Captured imagery is parsed for barcodes, lot codes, text, expiration dates, case counts, damage, occupancy and other attributes, and the resulting data is synced to warehouse management and ERP systems as a record of what is physically present.

The product is organized into three layers: Vision, which captures the continuous picture of facility activity; Sage, a reasoning layer that combines vision data with the customer's existing systems to surface drift and risk as ranked priorities; and Workflows, which routes drafted tasks to the responsible person in the appropriate system. The company positions the platform for multi-facility networks, with benchmarking of practices across buildings, and markets outcomes including 99.9% inventory accuracy, reduction of manual counting effort by up to 80%, 5x productivity improvement, and ROI within about six months. It also operates in environments such as freezers and cold storage.

Gather AI describes itself as serving logistics, manufacturing, food and beverage, retail, aerospace and automotive customers, and as of its Series B said it planned to expand to hundreds of additional facilities and add predictive capabilities for proactive inventory management.

Founding story

Co-founders Sankalp Arora, Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey met as PhD students in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, where they built one of the first autonomous helicopters and tested it at FBI training grounds in Quantico. Arora's doctoral work focused on making flying robots "curious" — deciding what to inspect next rather than scanning at random. In 2017 the founders applied that autonomy, sensor-planning and 3D perception research to warehouse inventory and founded Gather AI in Pittsburgh.

Business model

Gather AI sells an enterprise software and vision platform to warehouse and distribution operators, deployed on consumer-grade drones and cameras attached to existing material handling equipment so customers avoid facility infrastructure changes; the company reports bookings as its headline commercial metric and cites average customer ROI in under six months.

Traction

The company reported roughly 60 employees, $74 million raised to date, 2.5x (250%) year-over-year bookings growth and a doubling of its operational footprint in the year preceding its February 2026 Series B. Named customers include GEODIS, NFI Industries, Kwik Trip, Axon, dnata, Barrett Distribution Centers and Langham Logistics. Cited customer outcomes include 99.9% inventory accuracy at Barrett Distribution Centers, a reduction in manual counting from 4,400 hours per year to 800 at GEODIS, and 5x operational productivity at NFI.

Latest developments

In February 2026 Gather AI announced a $40 million Series B led by Smith Point Capital Management, the firm founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Keith Block, bringing total capital raised to $74 million. The company said proceeds would fund expansion to hundreds of additional facilities globally, development of predictive inventory capabilities, and growth of its engineering and customer success teams. It also reported winning the 2025 Nebius Robotics award for Vision AI and Streaming Video Analytics in December 2025, placement at No. 963 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list, and recognition through the Inc. Power Partner Award and the CSCMP Startup Excellence Award.