Zipline
South San Francisco company that designs, builds and operates autonomous delivery drones for health systems in Africa and home delivery in the United States.
Zipline was founded in 2014 and is based in South San Francisco, California; co-founder Keller Cliffton is chief executive. It designs, builds and operates autonomous delivery drones, supplying more than 5,000 hospitals and health centers and running home delivery services in US markets such as Dallas-Fort Worth. On 21 January 2026 it said it had passed two million commercial deliveries and raised more than $600 million from investors including Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners and Tiger Global, which it said valued the company at $7.6 billion, and that it would expand to Houston and Phoenix. On 30 June 2021 it announced $250 million in new funding that brought its valuation to $2.75 billion, from new investors Fidelity, Intercorp, Emerging Capital Partners and Reinvent Capital and existing backers Baillie Gifford, Temasek and Katalyst Ventures. On 17 May 2019 The Rise Fund, managed by TPG Growth, announced an investment in Zipline without stating the amount.
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- Total funding
- $250M
- Latest valuation
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- Founded
- 2014
- Country
- United States
- Jan 21, 2026Other—
- Jun 30, 2021Other$250M
- May 17, 2019Other—