AIBRIEF
Koch Disruptive Technologies led the round as Gatik reports $600M in contracted revenue and Walmart, Kroger, and PepsiCo as customers on its middle mile routes.
Gatik, the autonomous middle-mile delivery startup running fixed routes between distribution centers and stores, raised $200 million on Aug. 25, 2026, to expand a fleet that has already logged 85,000 fully driverless trips at a 99% on-time rate. The round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, the venture-investment arm of Koch Industries.
Gatik reports more than $600 million in contracted revenue, 2,000+ hours of fully driverless operation, and 10,000+ public-road miles without a completed incident, per the company's release carried by PYMNTS. Order volume has grown from 60,000 in January 2026 to 85,000 by late August, with Walmart and Kroger as the named retail customers.
Middle-mile freight, the leg between a retailer's distribution center and its stores, is shorter, fixed, and easier to map than long-haul highway driving, which makes it the first autonomous freight segment to book at commercial scale. The PepsiCo multi-year agreement sits in this segment.
Koch Disruptive Technologies' Byron Knight called the model the most credible path to commercial autonomous freight. Long-haul remains a separate, slower story, and the operational numbers are company-reported rather than independently audited.