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Zipline

14 days

With one million autonomous deliveries completed, we couldn’t be more excited about the future.

We’re proud to celebrate our one millionth commercial delivery — that’s a million deliveries of lifesaving blood, critical vaccines, last-minute groceries, a...

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@zipline

5 years

How Zipline Helps Remote Regions Get Blood From a Drone via @WIRED

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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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5 years

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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@zipline

1 year

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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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

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.

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. @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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2 years

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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Zipline

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3 years

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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@zipline

5 years

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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5 years

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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@zipline

5 years

Passed a big milestone today: 20,000 deliveries to patients across Rwanda and Ghana

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Zipline

@zipline

3 years

@zipline is honored to announce we’ve helped deliver more than one million doses of vaccine to date. Thank you to the amazing team, health system partners, community advocates, and visionary government officials who helped make this possible.

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@zipline

6 years

@zipline “is able to get blood from a centralized distribution center to where it's needed in minutes”

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@zipline

1 year

We’re using the power of engineering to build a future that’s better for everyone on Earth.

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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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Zipline

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4 years

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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4 years

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Zipline

@zipline

3 years

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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@zipline

5 years

“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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@zipline

8 years

He's a pro! Thank you for your support, President Kagame. We are honored to be part of #Rwanda #health delivery. #MedDronesRw

Presidency | Rwanda

@UrugwiroVillage

8 years

President Kagame launching a Zipline medical delivery drone now in Muhanga #Rwanda

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Zipline

@zipline

4 years

@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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@zipline

5 years

We just completed our first flight from our brand new distribution center in Ghana. Mission: success!

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@zipline

5 years

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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@zipline

6 years

“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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@zipline

5 years

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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4 years

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@zipline

4 years

Need on-demand, instant delivery day or night, in high winds, rain or zero visibility fog? Zipline has you covered...

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Zipline

@zipline

11 months

With more than 1,000 deliveries a day, Zipline is the world’s largest autonomous delivery system – and we’re just getting started! We’re thrilled to be recognized by @TIME as one of the 100 most influential companies.

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4 years

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2 years

Today, Zipline achieved Part 135 air carrier certification from the @FAA . Being certified as a U.S. airline is a powerful step forward toward scaling safe, sustainable drone delivery operations in the U.S. and around the world.

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@zipline

5 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

#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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Zipline

@zipline

6 years

Zipline launches the world’s fastest commercial delivery drone

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Zipline

@zipline

3 years

1/9 // @zipline + @pfizer partnership thread -> Zipline has partnered with Pfizer to design and test an end-to-end delivery solution to safely, efficiently, and equitably deliver all COVID-19 vaccines in countries where Zipline operates.

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@zipline

5 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

7 months

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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Zipline

@zipline

7 years

@Zipline & Tanzania announce 🌍s largest drone delivery ntwrk: 120 drones, 2k daily medical deliveries to 1k+ clinics

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Zipline

@zipline

2 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

4 years

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

@zipline

5 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

4 years

We're honored that Zipline's Instant Drone Delivery Service has been named as one of FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies for 2020!

Fast Company

@FastCompany

4 years

“This edition of #FCMostInnovative Companies may be our most diverse and surprising yet.” — @stephaniemehta

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Zipline

@zipline

18 days

At our testing facilities in California, spring isn’t the only thing in the air.

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Zipline

@zipline

3 years

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!

California Drone Operator Zipline Raises $250 Million

The pandemic has kickstarted demand for the startup’s medical delivery services in Africa.

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Zipline

@zipline

4 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

Honored to have you joining our Board of Directors, Bono!

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@U2

5 years

Flying visit to @zipline HQ - Bono

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4 years

Coming soon to skies around the world! @zipline 's newest generation of drone, codename "Sparrow," is heading out into the field to begin serving patients in need.

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@zipline

5 years

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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Zipline

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6 years

@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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@zipline

1 year

“Right now, African nations are pioneering the delivery of healthcare supplies by drone. In Rwanda, this has reduced the delivery time for emergency blood supplies. In Ghana, this service has delivered more than 9 million vaccines.” - @VP re: Zipline.

Remarks on Zipline by Vice President Harris in Accra, Ghana

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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

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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@zipline

3 years

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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@zipline

5 months

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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Zipline

@zipline

4 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

8 months

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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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

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

@zipline

3 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

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

@zipline

3 years

@zipline is excited to announce our expansion into Japan, and our first strategic operational partnership - with @toyotatsusho Toyota Tsusho Corporation. Read more:

Toyota Tsusho Corporation & Zipline Enter Strategic Operational Partnership in Japan- Partnership...

"Toyota Tsusho Corporation & Zipline Enter Strategic Operational Partnership in Japan- Partnership will enable first-ever on-demand drone delivery of vital medical supplies in Japan -" - Toyota...

www.toyota-tsusho.com

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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

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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@zipline

5 years

Ghana team is quickly approaching first flight

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@zipline

4 years

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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5 years

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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@zipline

2 years

We’re excited to partner with @NASA to accelerate the future of autonomous aviation in the U.S.

NASA Partners with Zipline to Shape Future Operations of Autonomous Fleets

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@zipline

1 year

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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1 year

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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@zipline

4 years

Zipline's #drone delivery helps reduce hospital overcrowding and free up bed space for #COVID19 response by helping to make basic and maintenance care available closer to home

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@zipline

4 years

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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@zipline

5 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

2 years

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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4 years

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2 years

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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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

1/ Three years ago, we bought a cherry-picker and started experimenting with different package designs that could safely float blood from the sky to the ground. We iterated quickly toward this design (which we still use today!)

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@zipline

5 years

Say hello to our newest teammates! All new Zipliners start their journey with a two-week training on either flight or fulfillment operations in Rwanda.

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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

We're proud as always to have your support, Bill!

Bill Gates

@BillGates

5 years

It’s amazing to think about the creative ways we’ve delivered vaccines over the years (even by dog sled, when necessary). Today, a startup called Zipline is even using delivery drones to reach the most remote parts of the world. #VaccinesWork

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4 years

Zipline is hard at work to support the countries and health systems we serve in their planning and response to #COVID19

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@zipline

4 years

Axios: “A #coronavirus first: Zipline drones deliver test samples in Africa”

A coronavirus first: Zipline drones deliver test samples in Africa

Instead of waiting several days for a batch of samples to be transported by truck.

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Zipline

@zipline

1 year

@TechCrunch thinks we're cute...

Zipline unveils cute little droid to make drone delivery more accurate | TechCrunch

Zipline is trialing a new droid and an updated version of its drone, the P2 Zip, to deliver parcels more accurately.

techcrunch.com

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Zipline

@zipline

4 years

Here's a look at the team launching back-to-back flights, each capable of traveling a 100 miles RT & serving patients at thousands of health facilities with on-demand access to critical and life-saving medicine.

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@zipline

4 years

Another rainy sunset flight back to base and another mission to deliver vital medical aid complete...

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@zipline

4 years

#COVID19 has strained global delivery of routine healthcare services like childhood vaccinations. Thanks in part to a partnership with @gavi , @zipline quadrupled vaccine deliveries as Ghana’s lockdown began to help ensure access to care was uninterrupted. #VaccinesWork

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Zipline

@zipline

2 years

Today, we announced we’ve delivered 500,000 COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana. We’re proud to play a key part in the country’s rollout, and look forward to continued collaboration with local partners to improve access to vaccines, accelerate distribution & build healthier communities.

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Zipline

@zipline

2 years

Hello, Ivory Coast! In partnership with the Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage, we’re entering our 6th country. With Zipline's instant logistics infrastructure, 1,000 healthcare facilities can improve patient access & care:

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Zipline

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5 years

Wouldn't you be this excited if you had just finished 2 weeks of Zipline Academy? These new Zipliners are now fully certified flight and fulfillment operators, ready to deliver critical medical supplies when you need it most! Let's go Ghana! #ZiplineGhana #ZiplineInternational

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5 years

We build safety into everything we do, including redundant design. Two motors but we can fly on one. Same goes for GPS, power, comms, etc. We’re also prepared for the worst. In an emergency, we automatically deploy a safety parachute and float slowly to the ground.

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Zipline

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6 months

. @ClevelandClinic announced today that Zipline will deliver medications directly to its patients’ homes. Together we are making healthcare more effective, accessible, and efficient. Read more here:

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@zipline

5 years

Today we take a big step toward our mission to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. #ZiplineGhana is starting our expansion to provide 12M people in Ghana with access to the medicine they need.

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@zipline

5 years

The worst part of summer ending? Saying goodbye to our interns! From building artificial rain machines to multi-vehicle simulations, this was one impressive group. Farewell! 🛩️

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@zipline

5 years

Proud to explore how drone delivery can help save lives in conflict, humanitarian and disaster relief situations.

CNBC Disruptors

@CNBCDisruptors

5 years

2x #Disruptor50 drone company @Zipline , which already delivers emergency medical supplies in Rwanda and Ghana, is testing drone flights with the U.S. Department of Defense.

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4 years

Honored to work with the #FAA & @RwandaCAA and share everything we've learned flying 2.2 million miles autonomously. We know this collaboration will help build strong and safe standards for national scale #drone delivery around the world 🌍

FAADroneZone

@FAADroneZone

4 years

The #FAA #UAS Integration Workshop in #Rwanda focuses on Part 107, waivers, the #DronePilot program, #BVLOS , FAA test sites, type certication, #UTM , #LAANC , public outreach, unauthorized operations, and more. #drones #FAAGlobal 🌍

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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

Starting tomorrow, Zipline and our partners are launching our biggest endeavour yet: providing millions of Ghanaians with access to primary health care, no matter where they live. Follow live on Instagram tomorrow →

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4 years

Zipline helps reduce social contact and exposure to #COVID19 by shifting vaccine, blood and medical deliveries from trucks to autonomous drones

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4 years

"Zipline...planned to come to the U.S. later this year. But as the #COVID19 crisis grows, the company is now working with government regulators to try to launch as soon as possible."

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@zipline

4 years

Excited to announce Zipline’s planned expansion to the Philippines! We are deeply honored and humbled by the opportunity to serve patients in the Asia-Pacific region with critical and life-saving drone deliveries.

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@zipline

4 years

We’re honored to make the #Disruptor50 list this year along with so many outstanding companies from around the world

CNBC

@CNBC

4 years

JUST IN: The 8th annual #Disruptor50 list is here! The start-ups on this list are turning ideas in cybersecurity, education, health IT, logistics/delivery, fintech and agriculture into a new wave of billion-dollar businesses.

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Zipline

@zipline

5 years

You all are always asking "How can I help?" Well, Zipline is hiring around the world. Quit your job and come work for us!

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