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“If a health clinic in rural Rwanda needs blood for an emergency transfusion, doctors can text or call a distribution center, and around half an hour later a drone will show up with plasma and platelets.”
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“From the time the hospital sent for the blood to the time of receiving it, not even five minutes passed. It was very fast,” -blood transfusion recipient, Francoise Mukeshimana
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This is what Rwanda's airspace now looks like at any given time: a fleet of autonomous drones (the white arrows) flying over mountain ranges and rivers to hospitals and health clinics (red blood icons) to make lifesaving deliveries. Day and night. Rain or shine.
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Them: Drone delivery isn’t real and can’t scale. Us: 500,000+ electric, autonomous deliveries to real customers completed and counting 🙌!
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Today, Zipline is announcing $190 Million in funding to wildly accelerate our progress toward providing *every* human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies.
.@Zipline, which ranked No. 39 on the #Disruptor50 list, has raised $190 million in venture funding and attained a $1.2 billion valuation from its investors.
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Zipline is proud to be enabling greater access to goods and #healthcare in Kaduna State, #Nigeria. Locally led teams will operate 3 distribution centers across the state, covering an area of 46,000 sqkm and delivering to more than 500 health facilities serving 9.4 million people.
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With our next-generation delivery platform launching soon in Dallas-Fort Worth and Pea Ridge, Arkansas, we’re putting our system through rigorous testing every day.
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Today was officially Robin's final day in service. Three cheers for a generation of Zip that made over 61k deliveries, flew 6.1M kms, and saved thousands of lives. Onward!
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A crowd formed to witness the first lifesaving drone delivery to Asamankese Hospital in Ghana. We're working hard to bring instant delivery service to more hospitals every day.
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In April, Zipline started drone delivery operations in Ghana. Today – 5 months and 7,000 medical deliveries later – we are officially launching our second Base in Ghana, expanding our instant medical delivery service to millions more.
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Passed a big milestone today: 20,000 deliveries to patients across Rwanda and Ghana
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We’re using the power of engineering to build a future that’s better for everyone on Earth.
My new video is a brilliant execution of a clever idea from some really clever engineers using their superpowers for good. I also got to visit Rwanda which is my new second favorite country.
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Millions of children around the world die each year due to lack of access to basic medical products. Instant drone delivery is helping solve the access problem and save lives.
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High-volume delivery testing continues at our Half Moon Bay site. Look at that little droid go!
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200,000 deliveries and counting!.A milestone for Zipline, our health system partners & all the healthcare workers & patients we serve. Wouldn’t have been possible without a global Zipline team working tirelessly to create a system serving all people equally #instantlogistics #uas
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“We’ve been able to help reduce the blood spoilage rate at the hospitals we serve from 7%—an international norm—to zero.”
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He's a pro! Thank you for your support, President Kagame. We are honored to be part of #Rwanda #health delivery. #MedDronesRw
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@zipline and @WalmartInc are teaming up to bring a first-of-its-kind drone delivery service to homes in the United States!.
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We just completed our first flight from our brand new distribution center in Ghana. Mission: success!
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Welcome Bono to Zipline's Board of Directors!. “Zipline brings together my most fervent passions. the brightest minds everywhere can go to work for the most vulnerable lives anywhere, and that we put our intellect to work in service of our ideals.” –Bono.
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What does it look like to deliver 1,300 products in approximately four hours?. Here's a look at our delivery system, where each triangle represents a Zipline drone making a delivery.
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“If a health clinic. needs blood for an emergency transfusion, doctors can text. around half an hour later a drone will show up with plasma and platelets.”
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No UFOs here, just our autonomous Zips practicing their holding pattern.
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Today, the Zipline Ghana team is celebrating their 1000th medical delivery. This team is ramping up quickly – half of these deliveries were in the last month. 🙌
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It's like magic.
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Need on-demand, instant delivery day or night, in high winds, rain or zero visibility fog? Zipline has you covered.
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Every element of our P2 Zip is intentionally designed to increase its efficiency and travel distance. Heavy, tangled cables weren't going to work. Want to know what we did instead? Watch this video.
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Here's a long exposure photograph of three Zipline drones waiting to land (circling on the right) with the recovery system glowing on the left.
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#ZiplineGhana will operate 24/7 from 4 distribution centers and deliver to 2,000 health facilities serving 12 million people across the country.
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Beautiful sunset over Zipline Kayonza, our new eastern Rwanda distribution center. In its first 6 weeks of operations, we've made over 300 lifesaving deliveries by drone.
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For decades, people have used listening to detect aircraft. Now, we’ve refined acoustic perception for our on-board safety system that will help us scale from 100s of zips in 7 countries to 100s of thousands all over the world.
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Our next stage of growth is taking flight! Deepak Ahuja will be joining Zipline as our Chief Business and Financial Officer! With more than 20 years of financial leadership experience, he will be critical in helping bring our instant logistics system to more people.
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With one million autonomous deliveries completed, we couldn’t be more excited about the future.
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Multiple drones in the sky simultaneously making critical, national-scale deliveries to different locations up to 50 miles away in under an hour? All in a days work at Zipline.
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Zipline's approval by the FAA marks the dawn of a new era in logistics. Learn about how we're creating a sustainable future, and stay tuned as we bring our autonomous delivery tech to Dallas and beyond!. #SustainableDelivery #LogisticsInnovation
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1/ This month, we hit 1,000,000 kilometers flown with our drones. Just over four years of flying and refining to get this far.
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At our testing facilities in California, spring isn’t the only thing in the air.
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We're honored that Zipline's Instant Drone Delivery Service has been named as one of FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies for 2020!.
“This edition of #FCMostInnovative Companies may be our most diverse and surprising yet.” — @stephaniemehta
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“Futuristic, so quiet, I just love it.” That’s music to our ears. Thank you Sandy and the Pea Ridge Fire Department for letting us drop by and make history.
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This round will help Zipline continue to scale our platform, extend our technology leadership in autonomy and instant logistics, and reach hundreds of millions of people in new countries around the world. Forward!.
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CNBC: Zipline begins drone delivery of Covid-19 test samples in Ghana. “It is the first time in history that autonomous drones have been used to make regular long-range deliveries into densely populated urban areas”.
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This month, we began flying a new, cutting-edge flight controller. We tested this in the California storms last week through gusting winds of 45-55 mph. An hour of flying a circle and we never deviated by more than a few meters from desired path! 🎯
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After making hundreds of thousands of emergency medical deliveries day and night, we know how important it is to be able to safely deliver around the clock. Testing continues in Half Moon Bay as we get closer to bringing 24/7 drone delivery to your doorstep.
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@KellerRinaudo: “speed is everything—when someone is waiting to receive an emergency medical product, minutes can be the difference between life and death,”
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Most common question we get: “does it work in the rain?” Emergency medicine is *most* need when the weather is bad. This is what all-weather performance looks like. Here’s our team landing and launching during a storm at night in Rwanda.
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We built a testing site in rural Wyoming to ensure safe drone deliveries in ice-cold conditions. Want a look? . Check out the facility and hear first-hand how we're innovating our P2 Zips and processes to withstand any weather.
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Since starting operations in Daloa, Côte d'Ivoire, last year, Zipline has become the sole distributor of vaccines to more than 150 hard-to-reach facilities, building on progress made by the Ivorian Ministry of Health to improve national immunization coverage. At the inaugural
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This week, we celebrated our launch in Ghana. With Zipline, over ten million Ghanaians will have instant access to vital medical supplies, like blood, insulin, and antimalarials.
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Breaking: Zipline has partnered with Pfizer to design and test an end-to-end distribution solution that enables safe, efficient, and equitable access to all COVID-19 vaccines. Learn more:
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Meet UTM, our air traffic control for drones in the sky. The system ensures drones get from Point A to Point B efficiently, even when navigating crowded airspace. See how it works in this quick video:
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Next year we’ll start delivering medical supplies to the UK’s @NHS, one of the largest public health systems in the world. We’re thrilled to partner with @NorthumbriaNHS and @Apianaero to provide on-demand access to frequently needed medical products
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On September 18, the FAA made a decision that lays the groundwork for a monumental shift in logistics and equitable access. Read more about how this builds the foundation for Zipline to scale to deliver to millions of homes in the U.S.
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From the team that helps deliver gifts of life from the sky on this day and everyday, #MerryChristmas and a very happy holiday season to you and yours!
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To make sure we stay laser-focused on serving our customers and community, every new Zipliner goes through an on-boarding experience at our distribution center in Rwanda. Here is our latest cohort, with representation from 🇬🇭Ghana, 🇷🇼Rwanda, and 🇺🇸USA.
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Zipline has made over 127,000 fully autonomous electric battery-powered deliveries of critical medical supplies, flying over 8 million miles. But we still have a long way to go in replacing the nearly 300 billion VMT by commercial trucks in the U.S. each year. #EarthDay.
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Meet Pascaline. She joined Zipline Rwanda a year ago in battery manufacturing. She not only builds batteries, but also does drone maintenance, and is an air traffic controller. All that in one single person!
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@zipline is excited to announce our expansion into Japan, and our first strategic operational partnership - with @toyotatsusho Toyota Tsusho Corporation. Read more:
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How do we qualify a new drone design for flight?. We start by bouncing the heck out of it on our Pogo Cycle Tester. 🦘
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We’ve designed our P2 delivery system for the world we want to live in. That means it not only needs to be safe and fast; it has to be practically unnoticeable in our everyday lives.
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"The hardest part is there is no one hard part. Everything is hard.". Check out how Zipline CEO and Co-Founder @KellerRinaudo explained the challenges of building an autonomous drone delivery system, and the massive opportunity that it brings, at the recent @WSJ Future Of event.
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Final checks performed on the fleet of Zipline drones at our manufacturing facility in South San Francisco. Now headed to Ghana to start serving next week.
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This year's #Disruptor50 list highlights the top 50 companies in the country who are chasing big market opportunities even in a tough economy. See why Zipline was featured in the top 25.
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Why does the P2 Zip have five propellers? Our engineer Zoltan gives a behind-the-scenes look in this video. #DroneDelivery #AutonomousDrone
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We're thankful for the incredible team that allows @zipline to serve patients in need around the world with instant delivery of critical and life-saving medicine. #happythanksgivng
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In his State of the Nation address to Parliament yesterday, President Nana Akufo-Addo shared how Ghana has used Zipline's instant delivery service to improve healthcare access across the country. Watch here.
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By popular demand, we're going to hold a live-stream of our lifesaving drone delivery operations in Rwanda! . Follow us on Instagram and tune in Tuesday @ 1630 GMT / 1830 CAT / 08:30am PT / 11:30am ET to meet the team and see drones launch and land!. 🎥👉
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We’re working hard to ensure that every human on the planet can have access to the critical and life-saving medicines they need within minutes.
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Run out of your allergy medicine or prescription? Need Tylenol, a COVID test or cough syrup? 15-30 minutes, without leaving your house, is all it takes when you order through Zipline’s autonomous delivery service - now live in Utah! Sign up at
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Adding to North Carolina’s “first in flight” legacy, three leading U.S. healthcare organizations— @NovantHealth, @Magellan_Rx, and @cardinalhealth —today began routine, long-range drone deliveries in #NorthCarolina powered by Zipline.
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Episode 3: Find out just how close we are + the paraland you’ve all been waiting for. #DroneDelivery
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