Gideon
Croatian-founded maker of 3D-vision autonomous mobile robots and the Trey autonomous forklift that loads and unloads trailers, with offices in Osijek and the Chicago area.
Gideon, which announced its Series A under the name Gideon Brothers, builds autonomous mobile robots for material handling in logistics, warehousing, manufacturing and retail and guides them with spatial AI and 3D vision. Its flagship robot is Trey, an autonomous forklift aimed at loading and unloading trailers at the dock, and Loblaws has deployed it for that work. The company lists offices in Bolingbrook, Illinois, in the Chicago area, where it opened a manufacturing facility, and in Osijek, Croatia. Its 2021 funding release was datelined Zagreb. Its site names four co-founders, Josip Ćesić, who is chief executive, Matija Kopić, Kruno Stražanac and Edin Kočo, and gives a headcount of more than 90 people and ten granted patents. It has a strategic cooperation with Toyota Material Handling Europe and has worked with NVIDIA, and Dot Foods is a commercial partner. On 8 June 2021 the company announced a $31 million Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries, with new investors DB Schenker, Prologis Ventures and Rite-Hite joining existing backers Taavet Hinrikus, Pentland Ventures, Peaksjah, HCVC, Ivan Topčić, Nenad Bakić and Luca Ascani. Kopić was quoted as CEO at the time. The money was for development and commercialisation of its robots and for building manufacturing, sales, marketing and customer success teams, including new offices in Munich and Boston. On 5 September 2024 Toyota Industries Corporation announced a strategic investment in Gideon for vision-based automated vehicle solutions, without disclosing the amount.
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- $31M
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- Croatia
- Sep 5, 2024Strategic investment—
- Jun 8, 2021Series A$31M