Zipline

Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by Zipline, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

• OpenTimeline · claimed 2026-01-01 · deadline 2026-12-31

  “Four states by end of year”

  Zipline is expanding to Texas (Wonder partnership). BayCare partnership covers Florida. Operating in multiple states already. "Four states" may already be met or close to met. https://dronelife.com/2026/06/30/restaurant-drone-delivery-wonder-zipline-texas/

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• VerifiedCapability · claimed 2026-01-01

  “The largest commercial autonomous system on earth isn't a robotaxi fleet — it's Zipline, which has flown 140 million autonomous miles”

  130M+ autonomous miles confirmed on Zipline fact sheet. 2M+ commercial deliveries. This claim is verified — Zipline is the largest commercial autonomous delivery system by miles flown. https://www.zipline.com/about/zipline-fact-sheet

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• VerifiedSafety · claimed 2026-01-01

  “Zipline has flown more than 130 million autonomous miles, operates on multiple continents, and safely makes a delivery every 30 seconds”

  Zipline's own fact sheet, consistent with Wikipedia (2M+ deliveries, 120M+ miles). Multi-continent operations confirmed (Rwanda, Ghana, US, expanding). One delivery every 30 seconds = ~1M deliveries/year rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipline_(drone_delivery_company)

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• Partly trueCapacity · claimed 2024-04-19 · deadline 2026-10-19

  “Two and a half years from now we need to be doing a million deliveries a day”

  Zipline hit 1M total deliveries in April 2024 (cumulative, not daily). As of January 2026, 2M+ cumulative deliveries. A delivery every 30 seconds = ~2,880/day. The 1M/day target is far from current rate. Zipline is expanding rapidly (BayCare, Wonder, Texas) but 1M/day by October 2026 is highly ambitious. https://www.zipline.com/about/zipline-fact-sheet

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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Zipline, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

Current leadership (4)

• Keenan Wyrobek Co-Founder & Head of Product/Engineering, Co-founder & CTO / Head of Product & Engineering, Co-Founder, CTO & Product Architectsecondary-verified
• Keller Rinaudo Cliffton Co-founder & CEOsecondary-verified
• Ezra Czyzyk executivesince 2020-01-01secondary-verified
• Okeoma Morant executivesince 2019-01-01secondary-verified

Founders (5)

• Keller Rinaudo Clifftoncofounderfounded 2014-01-01
• Keenan Wyrobekcofounderfounded 2014-01-01

  previously at Willow Garage

• Will Hetzlercofounderfounded 2014-01-01no longer at company
• Ryan Oksenhorncofounderfounded 2014-01-01
• Keenan Wyrobekcofounderfounded 2014-01-01

  previously at Willow Garage

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Former / Previously (4)

• Will Hetzler Co-founder & former COOsecondary-verified
• Matt Steckman Chief Revenue Officersecondary-verified
• Josh Liu Engineersecondary-verified
• Manal Habib Flight Controls Engineersecondary-verified

Media (1)

Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.

• PS

Safety record

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Incidents affecting Zipline (1)

• Zipline delivery drone crashes in Muhanga District, Rwanda (Jul 2019)2019-07-01 · Malfunction

Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Operator customers (1)

• Zipline30 deployments

Brains developed (1)

• Zipline Autonomy (Acoustic Detect-and-Avoid)foundation-model · production

Peers

103 peers across 2 segments. Every Zipline competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

Supplied by (2)

Inbound supply edges feeding this company directly or via the models it owns. Same source bar as the outbound view (verified against at least two strong sources).

Financial state

Total funding

$2.9B

Employees

1,300

Reporting basis

private_reported

Lifecycle stage

growth

Counterparty risk class

low

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Funding rounds (9)

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Regulatory filings (2)

• faa_actionfaa action · us_faacleared

  Linked models: Zipline Platform 2 (P2)

• faa_actionfaa action · us_faaactive2022-06-22

  Linked models: Zipline Platform 1 (Zip)

Patent estate (18)

Timeline

Every recorded move in Zipline’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.

Recent activity

Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.

• Deployment recordedAug 17, 2026

  Zipline Platform 2 (P2) at Houston, Texas, USA

• Deployment recordedAug 17, 2026

  Zipline Platform 2 (P2) at Dallas, Texas, USA

• Deployment recordedAug 17, 2026

  Zipline Platform 2 (P2) at Dallas, Texas, USA

• Deployment recordedAug 4, 2026

  Zipline Platform 2 (P2) at Beachwood, Ohio (Cleveland Clinic), USA

• Verified media added✓VerifiedJul 23, 2026

  Zipline Platform 2 docking station

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Sources (12)

1. https://www.zipline.com/newsroom/zipline-surpasses-2-million-deliveries-raises-more-than-600m-to-power-next-phase-of-growth-and-expands-operations-to-houston-and-phoenix ↗
2. https://www.zipline.com/about/zipline-fact-sheet ↗
3. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/drone-delivery-startup-zipline-hits-7-6-billion-valuation ↗
4. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/zipline-charts-drone-delivery-expansion-with-600m-in-new-funding/ ↗
5. https://www.therobotreport.com/zipline-raises-over-600m-in-funding-surpasses-2m-commercial-drone-deliveries/ ↗
6. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/zipline-snaps-up-another-200m-to-fuel-its-drone-delivery-expansion/ ↗
7. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/01/21/3222432/0/en/zipline-surpasses-2-million-deliveries-raises-more-than-600m.html ↗
8. https://fortune.com/2023/03/22/zipline-ceo-keller-rinaudo-cliffton-logistics-health-care-farmers-walmart/ ↗
9. https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/26/zipline-begins-us-medical-delivery-with-uav-program-honed-in-africa/ ↗
10. https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-the-air-with-ziplines-medical-delivery-drones ↗
11. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/zipline-charts-drone-delivery-expansion-with-600m-in-new-funding/ ↗
12. https://www.zipline.com/newsroom/zipline-surpasses-2-million-deliveries-raises-more-than-600m-to-power-next-phase-of-growth-and-expands-operations-to-houston-and-phoenix ↗

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