Zipline

Zipline is the world's largest autonomous delivery system, specializing in on-demand drone delivery and instant logistics. 

Zipline is on a mission to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally.

Zipline was founded in 2011 by Keenan Wyrobek, Keller Rinaudo, Peter Seid, Phu Nguyen, and William Hetzler. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations across the US, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Japan, Kenya and Nigeria.

 

Zipline’s end-to-end solution seamlessly integrates with a business’s current operations. That includes its dual-use docking and charging hardware, software that easily works with third-party inventory management and ordering systems, an intuitive app that allows order tracking down to the second.

 

Zipline long-range platform, P1, has autonomously flown 40 million miles worth of commercial deliveries through all kinds of weather without a safety incident – the vast majority of which were flights flown beyond visual line of sight.

 

Zipline launched new Autonomous System Platform 2 (P2), suited for shorter range deliveries which transport the delivery by wire instead of dropping it from the sky. Zipline serves tens of millions of people around the world, and has partnerships with companies, including Walmart, Sweetgreen, Intermountain Health, Michigan Medicine, and Government of Rwanda.

 

Zipline is backed by Baillie Gifford, Temasek, Fidelity, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, GV, Slow Ventures, Intercorp, Katalyst Ventures, Emerging Capital Partners, Pactolus Ventures, Reinvent Capital, and others. The company raised $330M in a Series F round on Apr 28, 2023. This brings Zipline's total funding to $813M to date. The latest round nearly doubled the company's valuation to $4.2B, from previous $2.75B in a funding raised in Jun 2021.

 

 

  • Year founded: 2011
  • Funding Info: $813M over 8 Rounds (Latest Funding Type: Series F)
  • Yearly Revenue: NA
  • Employee Size: 501-1,000
  • Business Valuation: Valued at $4.2B as of Apr 28, 2023
  • City/Town: San Francisco
  • State: California
  • Country: United States
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