Zipline will get another $200M to expand its drone delivery service

US drone delivery and logistics startup Zipline has raised another $200 million in funding, adding to recent funding announced in January.

“Things have moved faster than we expected,” founder and CEO Keller Cliffton said in a video message written on X which provided many changes in the company.

Additional funding, which included participation from a crypto investment company Paradigmpushed Zipline’s latest Series H round to $800 million. Fidelity Management & Research, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, and Tiger Global participated in the initial round that valued the drone startup on. $7.6 billion.

Zipline has developed a drone delivery system that includes aircraft, launch and landing, and product applications. The company, which was founded in 2014, started in Africa, where it used its autonomous drones. donating blood in Rwanda. Zipline has expanded its reach and the uses of its drones in the years since. Today, its planes deliver food, commerce, agriculture, and medicine to five African countries, several cities in the United States, and Japan.

The funds are being used to accelerate Zipline’s expansion to at least four US states this year. The company has announced Houston, Phoenix, and Seattle as new markets.

Zipline has seen the largest growth in home delivery service since it launched last year in the United States, Cliffton said in the video, noting that delivery volume growth beat its forecasts in January and February.

“We expect to improve our growth in the next three months, compared to 2025,” he added. Cliffton said the growth is driven by customers using drones multiple times a day and making large orders.

“In the last three weeks, we’ve seen a 20% increase in the number of items per basket with customers ordering regularly from Zipline,” he said, adding that in response the company is increasing the number of items on the app over the next 30 days.

Zipline’s home delivery service uses Zipline’s Platform 2 drones, which are designed to carry up to eight pounds and deliver to customers within a 10-mile radius. Its larger Platform 1 drones are used to provide long-haul deliveries for businesses, corporations, and government that can travel up to 120 miles round trip. The P2 platform started in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex with a Walmart, and more than a dozen restaurant brands.

The startup still aims to expand its operations outside the United States. Cliffton also noted that Zipline has just closed a new international deal in Rwanda that will allow it to establish its Platform 2 drone delivery service in major cities there. Zipline is also opening a third service center to serve every hospital and medical center nationwide, Cliffton said.