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Zipline

Instant logistics for all humans - drone delivery for food, groceries, and medicine
Logistics 📍 South San Francisco, California Founded 2014
Current Valuation
$6.9B
as of 2026-Q1
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Zipline going public?
No. Zipline is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Zipline's valuation in 2026?
Zipline is valued at $6.9B as of 2026-Q1, set by its Series H ($800M, Mar 2026). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Zipline filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Zipline.
Who are Zipline's investors?
Zipline's investors include Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, Tiger Global, Paradigm, Temasek and 18 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Zipline International Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery drones. Founded in March 2014, Zipline operates the world's largest instant logistics system with distribution centers across the United States, Rwanda, Ghana, Japan, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, and Kenya. The company delivers blood products, vaccines, medical supplies, food, groceries, and consumer goods through its Platform 1 (long-distance) and Platform 2 (short-range VTOL) drone systems. Zipline partners with major retailers including Walmart and Chipotle, as well as governments and healthcare systems globally.

Company Profile

CEO
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Founded
2014
HQ
South San Francisco, California
Employees
1001-5000
Total Raised
$2.0B
Growth
Rapid expansion with 15% weekly delivery growth in US during 2025, surpassed 2 million commercial deliveries and 120+ million autonomous miles flown, expanding to multiple new US cities and African countries
Last Round
Series H — $800M (Mar 2026)
IPO Status
Private

Fundraising Status

Series H · $800M · 5 mo ago
PrivateTotal raised $2.0B

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$70.76
Open interest
15
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month+19.2%6-month+86.5%1-year+160%All-time+117%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series H$800MMar 2026

Vertical Intelligence — Defense / Aerospace

Federal awards
1
prime contracts, last 36 months
Obligated
$339,330
top: Department of Veterans Affairs
Largest award
$339,330
Department of Veterans Affairs
Latest award
2023-09-29
Largest award: VA VENTURES DRONE DELIVERY SERVICE (36C10X23P0086)
Name-verified against recipient "ZIPLINE INTERNATIONAL INC" on USASpending.gov as of 2026-08-19. Prime awards only — subcontracts and classified work are not visible in the public registry. Verify on USASpending.gov ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
3
via careers page
Product-build share
0%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
go-to-market push — Only 0% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (2 of 3 open roles are marketing).
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month3Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionMarketing2Ops & People1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Skip to main contentPut people firstDirect Feedback & Communication
Counted from Zipline's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Keller Rinaudo ClifftonKeenan WyrobekRyan OksenhornWilliam Hetzler

Investors

Fidelity · Baillie Gifford · Valor Equity Partners · Tiger Global · Paradigm · Temasek · Goldman Sachs · Katalyst Ventures · TPG · The Rise Fund · Toyota Tsusho · Sequoia · Andreessen Horowitz · Google Ventures · Felicis · SV Angel · Grishin Robotics · Goldman Sachs Asset Management · Emerging Capital Partners · Reinvent Capital · Visionnaire Ventures · BoxGroup · Slow Ventures · AME Cloud Ventures

Products

  • Platform 1 (P1) - fixed-wing drones for long-distance delivery up to 120 miles
  • Platform 2 (P2) - VTOL drones for short-range residential delivery up to 8 lbs within 10 miles
  • P2 Zip autonomous delivery platform
  • Healthcare delivery (blood products, vaccines, medical supplies)
  • Walmart partnership for consumer goods delivery
  • Chipotle partnership (Zipotle) for food delivery
  • Consumer and retail deliveries
  • Veterinary goods and animal DNA delivery

Competitors

Amazon Prime Air · Wing (Alphabet/Google) · Matternet · Manna Aero · Flytrex · UPS Flight Forward · DroneUp
autonomous deliverydrone logisticshealthcare technologylast-mile deliveryroboticsmedical supplieszero-emission deliveryVTOLinstant logisticsB2B logisticsretail partnerships
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.