Zipline is building Platform 2 into metro instant delivery

Zipline announced on January 21, 2026 that it had surpassed 2 million commercial deliveries and raised more than $600 million. The same release put the company at a $7.6 billion valuation and said U.S. deliveries had grown about 15 percent week over week for the prior seven months.

The event also expanded Platform 2 into Houston and Phoenix, with more metros planned later in 2026. Eligible customers would be able to order tens of thousands of items through the Zipline app, shifting the company from medical and institutional logistics into denser U.S. consumer and healthcare delivery surfaces.

Zipline was founded in 2014 by Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Keenan Wyrobek, and William Hetzler. It began with medical logistics and has become one of the largest operating autonomous delivery systems in the world, with a model that depends on aircraft reliability, launch and recovery operations, customer ordering, and local regulatory acceptance.

Zipline says its median flight time is three minutes.

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