Gecko Robotics is making inspection robots a data system for critical infrastructure

Gecko Robotics raised $125 million in Series D funding on June 12, 2025 at a $1.25 billion valuation. Cox Enterprises led the round, and CNBC reported total funding of $347 million, with USIT, XN, Founders Fund, and Y Combinator among investors. The financing supports a company that has moved from wall-climbing inspection robots into a data platform for critical infrastructure.

Jake Loosararian and Troy Demmer founded Gecko in 2013 after early work on a wall-climbing inspection robot at Grove City College. The original problem was practical: power plants, ships, tanks, and industrial assets are dangerous, slow, and expensive to inspect manually, while missing corrosion or structural degradation can create major safety and maintenance costs.

Cantilever integrates robotic scans, fixed-sensor data, partner systems, historical records, design files, operational data, and business metrics, then turns that record into corrosion analysis, remaining-life estimates, repair planning, and capital-allocation recommendations.

Gecko has described Navy use of Cantilever for ship availability tracking, repair planning, and maintenance scheduling. Axios separately reported a Gecko and L3Harris collaboration around extended-reality aircraft maintenance, with high-resolution imagery stitched into Cantilever to create an aircraft digital twin after months of prototype testing with the U.S. military. Source

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