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Zipline
Autonomous electric drone delivery for multiple industries
At a glance
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- South San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- Transportation
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Zipline.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A14 investors entered at this stage
- VVVisionnaire Ventures
- NTNat Turner
Sequoia- DMDave Morin
- VCVTF Capital
Tuesday Capital- RCRivas Capital
SV Angel
Felicis- VVVisionnaire Ventures
- GVGrape Arbor VC
- VPVijay Pradeep
- MVMorado Ventures
- OPOakhouse Partners
Series B and later23 investors entered at this stage
- KVKatalyst Ventures
- KUKonstantin von Unger
- EPEmerging Capital Partners
TPG
Fidelity Investments- TTToyota Tsusho
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
AME Cloud Ventures
Valor Equity Partners
Slow Ventures
Temasek
BoxGroup
Baillie Gifford- GRGrishin Robotics
Tiger Global
Andreessen Horowitz- T(The Rise Fund (TPG)
Goldman Sachs- IPIntercorp Peru
- BCBright Success Capital
Paradigm- RCReinvent Capital
SGH Capital
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (Mar/2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Zipline employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Nicholas HuRwanda
Manal HabibUnited States
GEGood EggsEst. 2011
Bob ZollerUnited States
DADiamond AgeEst. 2018
Russell VaroneUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
29 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Zipline on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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