Inc. Names Gather AI to Its 2026 List of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Northeast

Companies on the Inc. Regionals: Northeast list had a median growth rate of 73 percent.

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inc., the leading media brand and playbook for entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future, today revealed that Gather AI has been ranked No. 22 out of 151 companies on its sixth annual Inc. Regionals: Northeast list – the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the Northeast. The region includes Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Jersey.

An extension of the national Inc. 5000 list, the Regionals list offers a data-driven look at the independent small businesses driving growth across the Northeast economy. Companies on this year’s list demonstrate exceptional revenue expansion, resilience, and job creation during a challenging economic period.

“Warehouses have been making critical decisions on incomplete data for decades. We built Gather AI to change that, giving operators ground truth they can actually trust,” said Sankalp Arora, PhD, Gather AI CEO & Co-Founder. “When customers see what Physical AI does at one site, they pull us into ten more. That's the kind of growth this recognition reflects, and we're just getting started.”

Between 2022 and 2024, the 151 private companies on this list had a median growth rate of 73 percent; by 2024, they’d also added 6,779 jobs and $2.3 billion to the region’s economy.

Complete results of the Inc. Regionals: Northeast, including company profiles and an interactive database sortable by industry and metro area, will be available beginning March 31 at: https://www.inc.com/regionals/northeast.

“The honorees on this year’s Inc. Regionals list achieved exceptional growth at a time when the odds were against them. Amid inflation, supply chain disruptions, and ongoing economic uncertainty, they didn't just persevere – they innovated, adapted, and thrived. Their resilience made them standouts in their industries and true growth engines in their regions,” said Bonny Ghosh, Editorial Director at Inc.

This recognition builds on Gather AI’s inclusion in the 2025 Inc. Power Partners awards in the Operations & Logistics category. Sankalp Arora is also an Inc. Leadership Forum member, and his writing can be viewed here.

About Gather AI

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Gather AI is the co-pilot for intralogistics teams and the world’s first Physical Intelligence Platform - the system of record for operations across warehouses, plants, and yards. Using AI-powered vision on consumer-grade hardware such as drones and MHE, the platform digitizes pallets, tasks, and movements in real time with zero infrastructure changes required, delivering 99.9%+ accurate ground truth synced to WMS and ERP systems. Gather AI’s leadership blends pioneering robotics research from Carnegie Mellon University with scaling experience from Amazon Robotics, applying advances in safe autonomy and 3D perception to solve intralogistics’ toughest visibility and optimization challenges. The solution is deployed across logistics, manufacturing, food & beverage, retail, aerospace, and automotive at companies including GEODIS, Barrett Distribution Centers, NFI Industries, Axon, and dnata. Learn more at www.gather.ai, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

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Methodology

The Inc. Regionals lists are ranked according to percentage revenue growth over two years. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2022. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2024. (Since then, a number of companies on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2022 is $100,000; the minimum for 2024 is $1 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons.

About Inc.

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