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Zipline is a robotics company founded 2014, based in United States, developing 2 robots primarily in the Delivery category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Zipline has raised US$1.6B across 6 confirmed rounds, last valued at US$7.6B (Mar 2026) and has 6 known customers, none yet tied to a specific model.
Raised
US$1.6B
across 6 confirmed rounds · latest Mar 2026 · Series H
Valued at US$7.6B · Mar 2026 · source ↗
- Mar 2026· Series H· US$200.0M· investors: Paradigm, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford +2 more· TechCrunch ↗· 3 outletsCorrect this round
- Jan 2026· US$600.0M· investors: Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners +1 more· Pulse 2.0 ↗· 12 outletsCorrect this round
- May 2023· US$330.0M· FLYING Magazine ↗· 5 outletsCorrect this round
+3 more rounds
Confirmed rounds recorded from January 2017. Every amount links to its source.
Correct this →Shipped
6 known customers — no deployment yet tied to a specific model
Used by
Named in a public source that did not say which model
- Ghana· Ghanaspectrum.ieee.org
- Walmart· United Statesdronelife.com
- Department of Veterans Affairs· United Statesusaspending.gov
- Tanzania· Tanzaniadesignboom.com
- Rwanda· RWtechinafrica.com
- Nigeria· Nigeriadronexl.co
Also cited
- Chipotle Mexican Grillen.wikipedia.org ↗
Backed by: Andreessen Horowitz (on its portfolio ↗)
Drone delivery for food, groceries, and medicine
Zipline International Inc. designs, manufactures, and operates delivery drones and distribution centers for medical, food, grocery, and retail delivery. It operates in the United States and several countries including Rwanda, Ghana, Japan, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, and Nigeria, with customers and partners in healthcare and retail such as Walmart and Chipotle.
Active products
2
RoboIndex
60.40
RoboScore 56.88 + Momentum 3.52
Company facts
- HQ
- South San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2014 · 12 yrs
- Employees
- 1,000
- Stage
- Series H · Mar 2026
- Website
- www.zipline.com
RoboScore
56.88 RoboScore + 3.52 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
5 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #20 of 43·Delivery·best robot 49.90 + depth 0.00 + news 3.52 = total 53.42
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Zipline raised an additional $200 million, bringing its recent Series H to $800 million.
Zipline was founded in March 2014 in Half Moon Bay, California.
Press coverage
- Zipline snaps up another $200M to fuel its drone delivery expansion
TechCrunch · Mar 2026
In the news
3 events · last 90 days
+3.52momentumof 15 maxZipline Launches First Flight Drone Delivery Program in Austin
In the news
3 events · last 90 days
Why Zipline has been in the news, across 8 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
Active products by Zipline
2 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Zipline Delivery Drone | Delivery | Payload 1.8 kg | 2016 | 53.5 |
| 2 |  | Zip | Delivery | Payload 158.8 kg | 2023 | 49.9 |
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