# Zipline: company

Canonical ID: `42d14bb5-bff5-4976-a287-882a60bfe765`

## Key facts

- **Founded:** 2014, South San Francisco, by Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Keenan Wyrobek, Ryan Oksenhorn, Will Hetzler
- **Milestone:** Surpassed 2 million commercial deliveries (Jan 2026)
- **Funding:** $600M+ round at $7.6B valuation (Jan 2026); additional $200M (Mar 2026)
- **Certification:** FAA Part 135 air-carrier certification (2022)
- **Origins:** Medical drone delivery in Rwanda (2016) and Ghana, then US healthcare and retail

- **Slug:** zipline
- **Status:** private
- **Founded:** 2014
- **HQ:** South San Francisco, California, USA

## Models

- [Zipline Platform 2 (P2)](/models/zipline-platform-2.md) (aerial) (id: `a2e6c165-004d-43ff-a411-29e794733ff1`)
- [Zipline Platform 1 (Zip)](/models/zipline-platform-1.md) (aerial) (id: `a1424897-4da8-4031-bbda-5ee19a635d15`)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (10)

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

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