Gatik

Gatik develops and operates a fleet of light and medium-duty trucks with Level-4 automation (i.e., fully autonomous vehicles limited to specific locations and/or conditions) for middle-mile delivery. Gatik operates as an autonomous delivery as a service (ADaaS) provider to its customers. The company has operations in Arkansas, Texas, and California in the US and Ontario in Canada. As of May 2024, Gatik had a fleet of more than 60 trucks and had completed more than 600,000 order deliveries.

Key customers and partnerships

Gatik’s customers include Kroger (US), Walmart (US), Pitney Bowes (US), Tyson Food (US), Georgia-Pacific, KBX (US), and Loblaw’s PC Express (Canada).

Gatik’s product collaborations include those with 1) electric vehicle manufacturer Via Motors (introduced electric autonomous box trucks; February 2021); 2) Isuzu North America to mass-produce autonomous medium-duty delivery trucks (April 2021); 3) American multinational tire manufacturer Goodyear for tire intelligence technology (September 2021; extended in January 2024); 4) fleet management solutions provider Ryder System to retrofit its autonomous technology into Ryder’s trucks and obtain its maintenance facilities (October 2021); 5) ChargePoint, an EV charging network to offer charging infrastructure and services for Gatik’s customers (March 2022); and 6) Isuzu Motors to co-design a redundant chassis for autonomous driving systems (May 2024).

Gatik also has secured strategic partnerships with Nippon Express Holdings, ITOCHU Corporation and Isuzu Motors under which it secured strategic investments.