Zipline

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.

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.

Zipline goes live in Houston (partnering with Memorial Hermann Health System) and Phoenix in early 2026. In March, it adds $200M to its Series H round — bringing the total to $800M — with Paradigm joining returning investors Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, and Tiger Global.

By April 21, 2026, Zipline's North Texas network has grown to 16+ restaurant and retail brands in the DFW metroplex — including Popeyes, Hawaiian Bros, Taco Bueno, and local operators — and has expanded to more than 25 public delivery locations such as parks, UNT's campus, and the Rowlett Public Library. Flight volumes on its urban platform grew 50x in 2025 versus the prior year.

In late June 2026, Zipline names Austin its third Texas metro (after Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston), with operations expected in summer or fall 2026, and announces a partnership with food-technology platform Wonder to bring on-demand drone meal delivery to 100+ Wonder locations across Texas — starting in Dallas in January 2027. By this point Zipline has flown more than 135 million autonomous miles and completed over 2.5 million commercial deliveries worldwide.

In July 2026, BayCare selects Zipline to build the Tampa Bay area's first healthcare drone-delivery network — Zipline's first Florida deployment — to move prescriptions, lab samples, and critical medical supplies. Service is slated to begin in late 2027 in Pinellas County before expanding into Hillsborough.

On July 15, 2026, Zipline says the number of businesses offering delivery through its app grew 13x in the first half of 2026, with lifetime deliveries past 2.5 million (one million in the prior year alone). It launches consumer service in Austin and a home prescription-delivery partnership with Cleveland Clinic — its first healthcare home-delivery service — and hires executives from Tesla, Waymo, and Uber, including former Tesla finance VP Sendil Palani as CFO. CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton says he expects the U.S. business to grow 15x over 2026.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.