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Gather AI this week raised $40 million in Series B funding. This latest round brings the company’s total funding to date to $74 million.
“For too long, supply chains have operated with a fundamental blind spot: They couldn’t see what was actually happening on the floor,” stated Sankalp Arora, co-founder and CEO of Gather AI. “This funding allows us to expand from real-time visibility to full autonomous orchestration.”
Gather AI said it will use the funding to accelerate its expansion into hundreds of additional facilities globally and to further develop predictive capabilities for inventory management. The Pittsburgh-based company is also scaling its engineering and customer success teams to support enterprise-wide deployments.
Founded in 2017, Gather AI built its AI-enabled machine vision on research at Carnegie Mellon University. The company said that unlike most of its competitors, it can scan much more than barcodes, including lot codes, text, expiration dates, case counts, damages, and occupancy.
“In 2019, we had to do a lot of education on end-to-end visibility,” Arora told Automated Warehouse at Manifest this week. “Now, we’re a trusted name, and we can tell customers quickly whether or not we can solve their digitization needs. We’re working to complete the loop from data to optimization.”
Gather AI added that its software integrates with any hardware setup, so no infrastructure changes are necessary. It also asserted that its technology is adaptable across environments in cold storage (-20°F/-16.6°C), dark warehouses, and very narrow aisles.
“Inventory mistakes in cold chain cost four times that of ambient storage,” noted Arora. “For high-value perishables, such as produce or pharmaceuticals, we enable companies to follow FEFO — first expiration, first out — practices.”
Gather AI builds on 2025 momentum
Global logistics companies lose billions annually because warehouse activity rarely matches digital system records. This “physical-digital divide” creates operational blind spots: missed shipments, excess inventory, labor inefficiencies, and margin erosion, according to Gather AI.
The company said it delivers continuous physical intelligence that enables teams to identify bottlenecks before they cascade, optimize workflows in real time, and operate with confidence rather than constant firefighting.
“Our customers aren’t just finding problems faster. They’re preventing them entirely,” said Arora. “That shift from reactive to proactive is what transforms physical AI from a ‘nice to have’ into the operating system for modern logistics.”
“Our hardware-agnostic technology and service are our unfair advantages — we can get an off-the-shelf drone or camera and copy/paste from other warehouses,” he added. “We integrate with WMSes, and what used to take three weeks we can now do in three days.”
The investment follows a year of significant momentum, with Gather AI doubling its operational footprint and growing bookings 250%. Its logistics and manufacturing customers include GEODIS, NFI Industries, Kwik Trip, Axon, dnata, Barrett Distribution, and Langham Logistics.
Gather AI is also building proprietary models based on data from drones and lift trucks, as well as applying machine learning and large language models (LLMs) to inventory and shift queries, noted Arora.
Investors support increased visibility
“We were able to raise funding because investors recognized our business fundamentals, and our customer base and satisfaction are growing,” said Arora. “Our sweet spot is 100,000-sq.-ft. [9,290.3-sq.-m] facilities with about 10,000 pallet or case locations.”
Smith Point Capital Management led Gather AI’s Series B investment. Bain Capital Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Bling Capital, Dundee Venture Capital, XRC Ventures, and new investor The Hillman Company also participated in the round.
“Gather AI is redefining how the physical world gets measured, understood, and operated,” said Keith Block, founder and CEO of Smith Point Capital Management and a former Salesforce co-CEO.
“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,” he added. “We believe Gather AI will become the system of record for every warehouse, factory, and yard.”