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Zipline is a robotics company founded 2014, based in United States, developing 2 robots primarily in the Delivery category.
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.
Total funding
US$800.0M
Active products
2
Maker Score
54
Adequate evidence
View factor breakdown
Top-rated product
49.9
RoboScore
Zip
Company facts
- HQ
- South San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2014 · 12 yrs
- Employees
- 1,000
- Stage
- Series H (2026)
- Website
- www.zipline.com
Maker Score
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Trusted by
- Walmarten.wikipedia.org ↗
- Chipotle Mexican Grillen.wikipedia.org ↗
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
2 events · last 90 days
16.0momentumUber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
Why Zipline has been in the news, across 4 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.
Active products by Zipline
2 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Zip | Delivery | Payload 158.8 kg | 2023 | 49.9 |
| 2 |  | Zipline Delivery Drone | Delivery | Payload 1.8 kg | — | 46.2 |
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