Gather AI, a Pittsburgh-based Physical AI company focused on warehouse and intralogistics operations, has raised $40 million in Series B funding to expand its platform across global logistics and manufacturing networks. The round was led by Smith Point Capital Management, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Bling Capital, Dundee Venture Capital, XRC Ventures, and new investor The Hillman Company. The company said it has raised $74 million to date.
Gather AI positions its product as a “physical intelligence” layer that reconciles what is happening on warehouse floors with what digital systems record, targeting costly discrepancies that can lead to missed shipments, excess inventory, labor inefficiencies, and margin pressure. The company says its platform delivers continuous operational visibility, helping teams detect bottlenecks earlier, optimize workflows in real time, and reduce reactive problem-solving.
The funding follows a strong year of growth, including a doubled operational footprint and 250% growth in bookings. Gather AI said its platform is now used as an operational standard across large logistics and manufacturing environments, citing customers including GEODIS, NFI Industries, Kwik Trip, Axon, dnata, Barrett Distribution, and Langham Logistics.
Gather AI differentiates its approach from traditional AI by emphasizing models trained on proprietary real-world warehouse data. The company says its models are trained on millions of warehouse images and are designed to enable robots to see, count, and verify static and moving inventory in complex environments where standard sensors can struggle. The company also says the platform runs on consumer-grade hardware, including drones and material-handling equipment, and can be deployed without infrastructure changes, syncing “ground truth” data with warehouse management systems and ERP software.
Gather AI reports customer outcomes that include 99.9% inventory accuracy, up to 80% reduction in manual counting effort, and productivity improvements of up to 5x, with ROI typically achieved in under six months. The company said the new capital will support expansion into hundreds of additional facilities and accelerate the development of predictive capabilities to enable proactive inventory management. Gather AI also plans to scale engineering and customer success teams to support broader enterprise deployments.
Founded in 2017, Gather AI says its leadership team blends robotics research roots tied to Carnegie Mellon University with scaling experience from Amazon Robotics, applying safe autonomy and 3D perception to intralogistics visibility and optimization. The company is expanding across North America, Europe, and Asia, and plans to showcase its platform at Manifest and MODEX during 2026.
KEY QUOTES:
“Gather AI is redefining how the physical world gets measured, understood, and operated. What Sankalp and his team have built isn’t just a better way to count inventory; it’s a foundational intelligence layer for the modern supply chain. We believe Gather AI will become the system of record for every warehouse, factory, and yard, and we’re thrilled to help accelerate that future.”
Keith Block, Founder And CEO, Smith Point Capital Management; Former Salesforce Co-CEO
“For too long, supply chains have operated with a fundamental blind spot: they couldn’t see what was actually happening on the floor. This funding allows us to expand from real-time visibility to full autonomous orchestration. Our customers aren’t just finding problems faster. They’re preventing them entirely. That shift from reactive to proactive is what transforms Physical AI from a nice-to-have into the operating system for modern logistics.”
Sankalp Arora, CEO And Co-Founder, Gather AI
