Zipline

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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Zipline is a privately held American robotics and autonomous-logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates zero-emission drone delivery networks. It began with medical logistics in Africa and now also delivers food, retail goods, prescriptions, and other essentials in U.S. markets.

Primary product

Autonomous drone-delivery and instant-logistics systems: Platform 1 for long-range/rural deliveries and Platform 2 for precise urban/suburban home delivery, supported by FlightIQ autonomy, fulfillment software, hubs, and Zipping Points.

Founded

2014

Headquarters

South San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

1,000–2,000

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Transportation, logistics, supply chain and storage

Sub-industry

Autonomous drone delivery, robotics, aerospace, and instant logistics

Offices

South San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Rwanda

Ghana

Nigeria

Côte d’Ivoire

Business model

B2B logistics services for healthcare providers, governments, retailers, restaurants, and other enterprises

Consumer delivery marketplace through the Zipline app

Healthcare and medical-supply distribution contracts

Infrastructure, fulfillment, and autonomous-delivery network services

Funding

Stage

Late-stage private / Series H

Total raised

$2.3B

Latest round

Series H · Mar 2026

Latest amount

$800M

Series H extension

Mar 2026 · Fidelity Investments; participation by Paradigm, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, and Tiger Global

$200M

Series H initial tranche

Jan 2026 · Valor Equity Partners; participation by Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, and Tiger Global

$600M

Series F

Apr 2023 · Undisclosed

$330M

Series E

May 2021 · Fidelity Investments; Emerging Capital Partners; Intercorp; Reinvent Capital

$250M

Secondary Market

Mar 2021 · Covenant Venture Capital

$8M

Series D

May 2019 · Undisclosed

$120M

Series C

May 2018 · Katalyst Ventures

$70M

Series B

Nov 2016 · Visionnaire Ventures

$25M

Series A

Jul 2015 · Sequoia Capital

$18M

Early financing

Jul 2014

$4.2M

Early financing / Kickstarter-era financing

Oct 2012

$6.6M

People & investors

Leadership

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Keenan Wyrobek

Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer and Product Architect

Ryan Oksenhorn

Co-founder

William Hetzler

Co-founder

Sendil Palani

Chief Financial Officer

Kevin Vosen

Chief Legal Officer

Allen Penn

Head of Commercial

Caitlin Burton

CEO, Zipline Africa

Deepak Ahuja

Chief Business and Financial Officer (appointed 2022; current status not independently confirmed)

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz

Baillie Gifford

Fidelity Management & Research Company

Tiger Global Management

Toyota Tsusho

Valor Equity Partners

Visionnaire Ventures

Work & culture

Mission-driven, customer-obsessed and engineering-oriented; stated values include customer obsession, ownership and accountability, direct feedback and communication, continuous improvement, servant leadership, empathy, and high personal care for the work.

Work style

Hybrid

Compensation

Public job postings show target starting cash ranges such as $150,000–$210,000 for embedded firmware engineering, $160,000–$210,000 for autonomy engineering, and $200,000–$270,000 for senior full-stack engineering, with possible equity, bonuses, overtime, and benefits. Sponsorship is not clearly stated publicly.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HRA and One Medical options

Fertility support

Parental and family leave

Paid time off, sick leave, and holidays

Equity compensation

Discretionary or performance bonuses

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed as a standard rate card. The model appears to combine enterprise contracts and per-delivery/logistics fees; consumer orders are placed through the Zipline app, with some healthcare programs announced at no additional cost to eligible patients.

Differentiators

—Large-scale operational history in national healthcare logistics
—More than 135 million autonomous commercial miles and more than 2.5 million commercial deliveries reported in 2026
—End-to-end system spanning aircraft, autonomy, fulfillment, airspace management, and operations
—Long-range Platform 1 plus precise urban Platform 2
—Zero-emission electric aircraft
—FAA-approved operations and BVLOS capability
—Delivery to hard-to-reach clinics and precise delivery to homes, yards, and other locations

Technology

Fixed-wing autonomous aircraft

Platform 1 and Platform 2 delivery drones

FlightIQ autonomy and perception

Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM)

Beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations

Autonomous docking and recharging

Zipping Points

Fulfillment and inventory-management software

Python

React

gRPC

Kafka

PostgreSQL

AWS

Bazel

Grafana

Honeycomb

C++

Rust

Customers

Walmart

Rwanda Ministry of Health / Rwanda national health system

Ghana health system

Cleveland Clinic

BayCare (announced network; planned launch)

Chipotle

Crumbl

Blaze Pizza

Wendy’s

Little Caesars

Hawaiian Bros

Wonder

5,000+ hospitals and health facilities

Competitors

Wing

Amazon Prime Air

Matternet

Flytrex

Manna Drone Delivery

DroneUp

UPS Flight Forward

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$30M–$40M annually (third-party LinkedIn company data; not company-reported)

Latest news

Zipline Accelerates U.S. Growth with 13X Marketplace Expansion, New Leadership Hires, and Launches in Austin and Cleveland

Zipline newsroom · Jul 2026

Announced Austin and Cleveland launches, a 13-fold first-half marketplace expansion, Cleveland Clinic healthcare delivery, and new CFO, chief legal officer, and head of commercial.

Zipline adds ex-Tesla, Uber, Waymo execs as U.S. drone delivery scales

CNBC · Jul 2026

Reported more than 2.5 million deliveries, roughly 70% of volume in the U.S., 24,000-drone annual factory capacity, and expanding partnerships.

Zipline snaps up another $200M to fuel its drone delivery expansion

TechCrunch · Mar 2026

Reported a $200 million extension that brought the recent Series H funding to $800 million.

Zipline Surpasses 2 Million Deliveries, Raises More than $600M to Power Next Phase of Growth, and Expands Operations to Houston and Phoenix

Zipline newsroom · Jan 2026

Announced more than $600 million in funding, a $7.6 billion valuation, two million deliveries, and Houston/Phoenix expansion.

Drone delivery startup Zipline boosts valuation to $4.2 billion

Forbes · Apr 2023

Reported Zipline’s $330 million Series F and approximately $4.2 billion valuation.

Jobs and careers at Zipline

340 jobs at Zipline

Commercial Implementation Intern (Spring 2027)

On-site

2027 Internships

South San Francisco, California, USA; South San Francisco, California, United States

1d ago

On-site

Full-time