Gecko Robotics

Financial footing

• Raised $347M total: $73M Series C (Mar 2022, led by XN, $533M post-money), $100M Series C extension (Dec 2023, $633M valuation), and a $125M Series D (Jun 12, 2025, led by Cox Enterprises) at a $1.25B valuation
• Defense anchor: a five-year US Navy/GSA IDIQ worth up to $71M (Mar 2026) to inspect 18 Pacific Fleet warships, building on Navy work since 2023 across destroyers, an amphibious assault ship, carriers, and Columbia-class weld inspections
• The US Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center awarded an 18-month, $1.5M SBIR Phase II (Nov 2022) to assess Minuteman III silo liners ahead of the Sentinel conversion
• Commercial: three ADNOC agreements (Nov 2025) plus an ADNOC Gas/AIQ three-year program, L3Harris aircraft work, and NAES power plants
• Backers: Cox Enterprises (Series D lead), XN (Series C lead), Founders Fund, USIT, Y Combinator

Gecko has raised $347 million in total. A $73 million Series C in March 2022, led by XN, valued the company at $533 million post-money; a $100 million extension in December 2023 took the Series C total to $173 million at a $633 million valuation. The $125 million Series D announced June 12, 2025 — led by new investor Cox Enterprises — doubled the valuation to $1.25 billion.

Other backers include Founders Fund, USIT, and Y Combinator. No later round has been disclosed. Revenue is not disclosed; third-party estimates put it around $60 million for 2024, built on multi-year service contracts. Press speculation about an IPO circulated after the March 2026 Navy award, but the company has announced no plans.

Major customers & contracts

The US Navy is the anchor defense customer. Gecko was approved in 2023 to assess destroyers and an amphibious assault ship, then expanded to aircraft carriers and submarines, including weld inspections on Columbia-class boats. In March 2026 the Navy and the General Services Administration awarded a five-year IDIQ worth up to $71 million — Gecko's largest award — covering 18 Pacific Fleet warships, with inspection data feeding Cantilever digital records in support of the Navy's 80 percent surge-readiness goal for 2027.

The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center awarded an 18-month, $1.5 million SBIR Phase II in November 2022 to assess concrete and steel liners in Minuteman III launch facilities ahead of the Sentinel conversion. L3Harris uses Gecko on military aircraft work, including C-130 modernization. The commercial base spans energy and manufacturing: ADNOC signed three agreements in November 2025 to expand robotics and Cantilever across its operations, following a three-year ADNOC Gas/AIQ program; Gecko keeps an international headquarters in Abu Dhabi and plans UAE manufacturing. NAES deploys it across US power plants.

Leadership & contact surface

Leadership: Jake Loosararian
Official site: https://www.geckorobotics.com

Competitive position

Gecko sits between two incumbent groups. Traditional nondestructive-testing service providers — MISTRAS, Acuren, Team, Applus+ — dominate industrial inspection with human technicians and hold the customer relationships Gecko must displace. On the technology side, Flyability and Percepto sell inspection drones, ANYbotics and Boston Dynamics field ground robots for plant rounds, and asset-performance software from GE Vernova and Bentley competes for the data layer.

Gecko's edge is the integrated stack: proprietary climbing robots that collect readings at far higher density than spot checks, Cantilever as the system of record, and — in defense — past performance with the Navy and Air Force that industrial rivals lack. Weaknesses: the model remains services-heavy and deployment-constrained, fleet-scale naval work is unproven beyond 18 ships, and incumbents can bolt sensors onto existing contracts faster than Gecko can build channel.

Battlefield relevance

Gecko's systems have no combat role and no battlefield deployment; the military relevance is sustainment. The Navy's maintenance backlog and constrained shipyard capacity make inspection speed a readiness lever — the 2026 IDIQ ties Gecko's data directly to the fleet's 80 percent surge-readiness target for 2027, across carriers, submarines, and surface combatants.

For the Air Force, silo-liner assessment shapes the Minuteman III-to-Sentinel transition, a program already strained by cost overruns and infrastructure surprises. The wager is that asset-condition data, not weapons, decides how much of the fleet is actually available in a Pacific contingency.

Sources & verification

• CNBC — Gecko Robotics raises $125 million, surpassing billion-dollar valuation (2025-06-12)
• Bloomberg — US Navy Awards Contract to Gecko Robotics to Inspect Ships (2026-03-17)
• Breaking Defense — Navy taps Gecko Robotics for ship-scaling robots to identify repairs in Pacific Fleet (2026-03-17)
• Gecko Robotics — Gecko Announces $71M Deal to Slash U.S. Navy Maintenance Delays (2026-03)
• Defense Daily — Gecko Robotics Announces Air Force Contract to Aid in Conversion to Sentinel (2022-11-29)
• The Robot Report — Gecko Robotics awarded $1.5M Air Force contract (2022-12-01)
• ADNOC — ADNOC and Gecko Robotics Sign Three Deals to Accelerate AI, Robotics and Skills Training (2025-11-02)
• The National — US tech firm Gecko Robotics aims to start making robots in the UAE by next year (2025-11-07)
• Fortune — Gecko's founder built a $600 million robot company from a college project (2024-04-17)
• Defense One — US Navy to use wall-climbing robots to inspect ships (2026-03-17)

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