About this episode
Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton joins Sourcery from Zipline’s drone factory to break down the company’s $600M+ funding round at a $7.6B valuation, a clear step up from Zipline’s ~$5B valuation in 2024, as the company enters a major U.S. and global scaling phase.The round includes participation from leading investors Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, and Tiger Global, underwriting Zipline’s expansion across manufacturing capacity, fleet CapEx, and metro-level infrastructure as demand accelerates.Zipline has now surpassed 2 million commercial deliveries and flown 125M+ commercial autonomous miles, making it the world’s largest autonomous delivery system. The company operates on four continents, serves 5,000+ hospitals and health facilities, and delivers food, retail, and healthcare products directly to customers’ homes in minutes. Zipline’s zero-emission aircraft have delivered more than 20 million items with no serious injuries and are saving 10,000+ lives per year in the process.In the U.S., Zipline is scaling at exceptional speed. U.S. deliveries have grown by approximately 15% week over week for the last seven months, and Keller shares that Zipline now does more deliveries in the United States than the rest of the world combined. In Dallas, Zipline’s first site took 10 weeks to reach 100 deliveries per day, while newer sites reached that same volume in just 2 days—a clear signal the system is moving from early adoption to everyday infrastructure.We also cover Zipline’s upcoming launches in Houston and Phoenix, where customers will soon be able to order tens of thousands of items with deliveries arriving in as little as 10 minutes, Zipline’s vertically integrated manufacturing strategy, and why Keller believes autonomous, on-demand logistics will soon be the norm across multiple U.S. states.Keller R. Cliffton : https://x.com/Keller Molly O’Shea: https://x.com/MollySOShea Sourcery: ?https://x.com/sourceryy ??????? ????YouTube: https://youtu.be/sF5Ocop7A_I????????• Brex—The modern finance platform, comb
