Manna Air Delivery
About
About Manna Air Delivery
Manna’s service accepts an order through its own application or a retail and delivery partner, assigns it to a nearby launch site and loads the package into an autonomous aircraft. The drone flies to the delivery location under remote fleet supervision, hovers above a clear area and lowers the order on a tether while remaining airborne. The package releases when it reaches the ground and the line retracts before the aircraft returns.
The company charges per delivery and operates the aircraft, mission software, regulatory programme and local launch infrastructure itself. It has completed hundreds of thousands of deliveries and announced Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the centre of a major US expansion in 2026. Manna paused its Irish delivery service in June 2026 amid domestic regulatory-policy uncertainty, while continuing its international authorisation and market-development work.
Products
- Manna Delivery Drone
Manna Air Delivery
Operations
Output & shipments
- Shipments
Manna reports 155,000 deliveries completed. - Manna delivery aircraft network
Source
Funding
- 2026-04-01 - Series B - $50M - Manna Air Delivery raises $50M Series B to expand in the United States
source: businesswire.com
- 2025-03-27 - Growth round - $30M - Manna raises $30M at a reported valuation over $150M
Manna completed a $30 million growth financing led by Molten Ventures and Tapestry VC at a reported valuation of more than $150 million. - source: ucd.ie
- 2023-10-25 - Strategic investment - Coca-Cola HBC invests in Manna to support next-generation delivery drones
source: coca-colahellenic.com
- 2021-04-29 - Series A - $25M - Manna raises USD 25M Series A for drone delivery
Manna raised USD 25 million in Series A funding to expand its drone delivery service. - source: thespoon.tech
Investors
- Coca-Cola HBC - Lead - Unknown - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-10-25 - latest 2026-04-01
- Enterprise Ireland - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-03-27 - latest 2026-04-01
- Molten Ventures - Lead - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-03-27 - latest 2026-04-01
- ARK Invest - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-01
- Atlantic Bridge - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
- Draper Esprit - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
- DST Global partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
- Dynamo VC - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-03-27
- Dynamo Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
- Elkstone - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
- Ireland Strategic Investment Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-01
- Radius Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-03-27
- Schooner Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-01
- Tapestry - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-01
- Tapestry VC - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-03-27
- Team Europe - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
Team
- Bobby Healy - Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Timeline
Events
- 2026-07-08 - Deployment - Manna launches full-scale U.S. drone-delivery operation in Tulsa
Manna launched its first full-scale metropolitan U.S. operation in Tulsa and named the city as its central U.S. operating base. The company said it has completed almost 380,000 global deliveries and plans to build a U.S. manufacturing base in Tulsa for its American expansion. The rollout moves Manna from international drone-delivery operations into a U.S. city-scale launch market.
Source - 2026-06-18 - Regulatory - Manna Air Delivery receives UK CAA SAIL III operational authorisation
The authorisation is a higher-assurance approval tier for complex uncrewed-aircraft operations in the UK. The assessment covered operational, technical and organisational safety evidence. The approval follows Manna’s earlier European LUC milestone and supports wider advanced drone-delivery operations.
Source - 2026-04-01 - Funding - Manna Air Delivery raises $50M Series B to expand in the United States
Manna announced a $50 million Series B to scale its autonomous drone delivery network across the United States and Europe. The company said the financing brought total funding to $110 million and highlighted more than 250,000 flights completed to date. Manna tied the round to expansion plans including 40 bases in the United States and recently broadened platform partnerships with Uber alongside Deliveroo, Just Eat, and DoorDash.
Source - 2025-06-05 - Partnership - Deliveroo launches drone deliveries in Dublin with Manna
Deliveroo launched drone delivery in Dublin with Manna as the aerial operations partner. The rollout extended Manna''s platform-partner strategy by adding another major food-delivery interface on top of its drone network. The event reinforced Manna''s positioning as a commercial drone logistics layer for consumer delivery platforms rather than a pure direct-to-merchant service.
Source - 2025-05-21 - Award - UK CAA awards support funding for shared-airspace drone operations involving Manna in Lancashire
Manna was part of a funded UK shared-airspace drone operations initiative in Lancashire supported by the UK CAA Airspace Modernisation Support Fund. The program focused on validating how multiple drone operators can safely share live airspace, making it a regulatory and operational milestone rather than a pure commercial launch. The event is relevant to Manna as a real-world step toward scaled BVLOS drone operations in more complex shared-airspace environments.
Source - 2025-03-27 - Funding - Manna raises $30M at a reported valuation over $150M
Manna completed a $30 million financing led by Molten Ventures and Tapestry VC. Forbes reported a valuation of more than $150 million, without specifying pre- or post-money basis. The valuation is stored as a lower bound; the round amount remains exactly $30 million.
Source - 2025-03-06 - Partnership - Just Eat Takeaway.com global drone delivery partnership with Manna kicks off in Dublin
Just Eat Takeaway.com and Manna launched the first phase of their global drone delivery partnership in Dublin. The rollout put Manna's aerial logistics operations inside a major food-delivery ordering platform. The launch created a scaled European distribution channel for restaurant drone delivery beyond merchant-by-merchant pilots.
Source - 2025-01-29 - Demonstration - Wolt and Manna begin winter drone delivery testing in Finland
Manna and Wolt began winter drone delivery testing in Espoo, Finland to validate operations in Nordic cold-weather conditions. The test program expanded Manna''s operating proof points beyond Ireland into more demanding environmental conditions relevant to aerial logistics reliability. The event served as both a technical validation exercise and an international expansion signal for Manna''s delivery stack.
Source - 2023-10-25 - Funding - Coca-Cola HBC invests in Manna to support next-generation delivery drones
Coca-Cola HBC made a strategic investment in Manna as part of its push into next-generation delivery and convenience infrastructure. The event signaled commercial interest from a major consumer brand and distribution player in Manna''s aerial logistics model. The investment also established a relationship later reflected in subsequent Manna funding rounds.
Source - 2021-04-29 - Funding - Manna raises USD 25M Series A for drone delivery
Draper Esprit led the round with participation from Team Europe, DST Global partners and existing investors. The financing supported regulated suburban drone delivery operations. The capital supports unmanned aircraft, air mobility or counter-drone operations as Manna moves toward broader commercial use.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- ANRA Technologies
Shared Airspace / Program Partner - Manna participated in a UK CAA-supported shared-airspace drone initiative in Lancashire (ANRA-led program context).
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
Drone Delivery Operating Area - Manna launched its first full-scale U.S. metropolitan drone-delivery operation in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Deliveroo
Food Delivery Platform Partner - Deliveroo launched drone delivery in Dublin with Manna as the aerial operations partner.
- Wolt
Winter Testing Program (finland) - Manna and Wolt began winter drone delivery testing in Espoo, Finland.