Gather AI’s latest funding round underscores growing demand for drone-based inventory intelligence in large, complex warehouses. The Pittsburgh-based company has raised $40 million in Series B funding to scale its Physical Intelligence Platform, bringing total funding to $74 million.
Physical AI and warehouse drones
Gather AI describes its offering as “Physical AI,” contrasting it with traditional AI that “processes text or images from the internet” and instead “learns from the real world.” Trained on millions of proprietary warehouse images, the models enable robots and drones to see, count, and verify both static and moving inventory in aisles where standard sensors often fail. Using AI-powered vision deployed on consumer‑grade hardware such as drones and material handling equipment (MHE), the platform digitizes pallets, tasks, and movements in real time with no additional infrastructure.
Drone-powered inventory accuracy
By pairing autonomous flights with computer vision, Gather AI’s Physical Intelligence Platform delivers continuous physical intelligence across racks and high-bay storage that are traditionally expensive and time-consuming to audit. Customers report 99.9% inventory accuracy, up to 80% reductions in manual counting effort, and as much as 5x productivity gains, with most realizing ROI in under six months. The company positions its solution as a way to close the “physical-digital divide” that leads to missed shipments, excess inventory, and labor inefficiencies in global logistics operations.
“Gather AI is redefining how the physical world gets measured, understood, and operated,” said Keith Block, Founder and CEO of Smith Point Capital Management. “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.”
Toward autonomous orchestration
CEO and Co‑Founder Sankalp Arora said the new funding will help the company move from real‑time visibility to full autonomous orchestration across warehouses, plants, and yards. “Our customers aren’t just finding problems faster. They’re preventing them entirely,” Arora said. “That shift from reactive to proactive is what transforms Physical AI from a nice-to-have into the operating system for modern logistics.” Gather AI plans to expand deployment of its drone-enabled Physical Intelligence Platform to hundreds of additional facilities worldwide and to enhance predictive capabilities for proactive inventory management.
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