Zipline

SPrivateFounded 2014🇺🇸South San Francisco, California

CEO

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

Overview

Zipline is an American robotics and logistics company operating the world's largest autonomous delivery service. After pioneering national-scale medical drone delivery in Rwanda, the company has grown into a global network that has flown more than 130 million autonomous miles and now serves more than 5,000 hospitals and health centers. In 2025, Zipline commercially launched Platform 2, its quieter home-delivery system, in Pea Ridge, Arkansas and more than 20 Dallas-Fort Worth communities with Walmart and more than a dozen restaurant brands, extending the business beyond healthcare logistics into mainstream retail, food, and prescription delivery.

Main Products

Zipline P2 (Platform 2)

Active

Zipline's next-generation delivery system featuring a large fixed-wing autonomous drone that carries a tethered delivery droid. The P2 drone cruises at altitude, then lowers the droid on a tether to deliver packages weighing up to 8 lbs precisely to doorsteps, porches, or backyards — then retracts the droid and flies back. The system is 10x quieter than P1, requires no landing zone, and enables true last-mile home delivery in suburban and urban areas.

Launched in Pea Ridge, Arkansas and more than 20 Dallas-Fort Worth communities with Walmart and more than a dozen restaurant brands.

Payload CapacityUp to 8 lbs

Designed RangeUp to 24 miles

Delivery Time10 miles in as quickly as 10 minutes

Zipline P1 (Platform 1)

Active

Zipline's original long-range delivery platform, optimized for enterprise, business, and government routes where speed and reliability matter more than dense urban doorstep service. It remains the backbone of many healthcare and public-sector logistics networks.

Active as Zipline's long-range platform for hospitals, health centers, and public-sector customers.

Payload CapacityUp to 4 lbs

Round-Trip Range~100 miles

Cruise Speed~80 mph

What's Next

Launch Houston, Phoenix, and additional U.S. states

Zipline says Houston and Phoenix are the first two markets in a broader 2026 rollout funded by its latest raise, with at least four new states targeted this year.

2026

Complete Rwanda's nationwide and urban expansion

The next major international milestone is executing Rwanda's new plan: bring Platform 2 into Kigali, open the Karongi distribution center, and stand up Zipline's first overseas AI and robotics testing hub.

2026–2027

Scale manufacturing capacity for P2 demand

Zipline is tripling its South San Francisco manufacturing footprint to support demand for its home-delivery network and build up to 15,000 autonomous aircraft annually.

2026–2027

Operations & Revenue

StatusActive

Actively operating the world's largest autonomous delivery network, with long-range healthcare and public-sector logistics globally and live Platform 2 home delivery in Arkansas and more than 20 Dallas-Fort Worth communities.

Revenue Streams

Government & Public Health Delivery

Contracts with ministries of health and public agencies to deliver blood, vaccines, essential medicines, lab materials, and animal-health products through national or regional logistics networks.

U.S. Commercial Retail Delivery

Partnerships with Walmart and other merchants for instant delivery of retail goods, groceries, prescriptions, and health products to homes in active U.S. markets.

Restaurant Delivery

Home delivery for more than a dozen restaurant brands, including Chipotle, Crumbl, Blaze Pizza, Wendy's, Little Caesars, and Hawaiian Bros, using Platform 2.

Key Metrics

Employees

~1,600 (LinkedIn-listed)

Est. Annual Revenue

Undisclosed commercial revenue from government, healthcare, retail, and restaurant delivery contracts

Total Commercial Deliveries

2,300,000+

Autonomous Miles Flown

130,000,000+

Hospitals & Health Centers Served

5,000+

Valuation

$7.6B

Timeline

2026Surpasses 2 million deliveries and raises $600M+

Crosses 2 million commercial deliveries, raises more than $600M at a $7.6B valuation, and announces Houston and Phoenix as the first two markets in a broader 2026 U.S. expansion.

2026Rwanda expands toward nationwide and urban coverage

Rwanda signs a new expansion agreement covering nationwide autonomous logistics, a third distribution center in Karongi, Kigali deployment of Platform 2, and Zipline's first overseas AI and robotics testing hub.

2025Commercially launches Platform 2 in the U.S.

Launches Platform 2 home delivery in Pea Ridge, Arkansas and more than 20 Dallas-Fort Worth communities, pairing Walmart with more than a dozen restaurant brands and pushing Zipline beyond medical logistics into mainstream consumer delivery.

2022Signs nationwide Rwanda expansion partnership

Announces a broad new partnership with Rwanda aimed at serving the entire country with instant logistics, opening Zipline's network to additional government agencies beyond healthcare.

2019Expands to Ghana and scales operations

Launches operations in Ghana, turning Zipline's public-health logistics model from a single-country proof point into a broader African delivery network.

2016Launches world's first national drone delivery service in Rwanda

Partners with the Government of Rwanda to launch the world's first national-scale drone delivery service, delivering blood, plasma, and medical supplies to remote clinics across the country. Drones launch from distribution centers and parachute packages to designated drop zones.

2014Founded by Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, along with co-founders Will Hetzler and Keenan Wyrobek, founds Zipline with the goal of building a logistics system that gives people instant access to critical medical products.

Funding

Round	Date	Amount	Investors
Series A–C	2014–2019	$250M+	Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Katalyst Ventures
Series E	2021	$250M	Katalyst Ventures, Baillie Gifford, GV, Temasek, Goldman Sachs, The Rise Fund
Series F	2023	$330M	New and existing investors
Growth Round	2026	$600M+	Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, Tiger Global