At a glance

Company Name: Zipline
Established: July, 2011
Company Type: Private, Series D, 233 Million USD
Field: Medical Supply and Logistics, Aviation, Robotics
Location: Half Moon Bay, California, USA
Official Website: FlyZipline.com
Vision: Our mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies.

Core Product/Innovation/Service

Every now and then technology meets innovation and the result is a breathtakingly simple and effective product or service. Zipline may just be the best thing to hit healthcare since sliced bread. Fortune magazine calls the company a 21st-century solution to medicine’s “last mile” problem. It can save lives and deliver emergency medical supplies into remote and inaccessible areas. It works, it is currently being used with huge success in Rwanda and it’s starting to gain traction in remote areas near to you.

In a nutshell, Zipline delivers vaccines, blood, and other life-saving medicines into remote areas using drones. It’s the pharmacy version of Amazon taken to the skies in electrically powered small drones capable of operating almost anywhere and in climate or weather. 

The system works as follows. A doctor orders medicine using his phone, from a remote village based, in theory, anywhere. The village is inaccessible by road, but that isn’t a problem for Zipline. They despatch an autonomous drone, programmed with flight paths and local terrain information to the GPS co-ordinates of the doctor’s phone. 

On arrival at the GPS location, the drone descends to deployment height and drops its payload, a capsule or box attached to a small paper parachute. Minutes later the vaccine or medication is in the doctor’s hands and can be administered to the patient. It’s sheer genius and the best implementation of cutting-edge technology being deployed successfully into healthcare we’ve seen. 

Keller Rinaudo, the CEO and co-founder of Zipline explains the process in more detail.

Zipline has been rolled out in Rwanda and has proven itself, spectacularly so. Currently, a distribution center similar to the one pictured below can deploy more than a ton of medical supplies in one day. Zipline flies more than 40,000 km (over 25,000 mi) each day and they’ve logged over 6,000,000 km flown to real customers.

The little drones can operate in extremes: from the hot California desert to the rainy mountains of Rwanda. Zipline’s drones fly through real-world weather, day and night, carrying a payload of up to 1.75kg ((3.85 lb) each. That’s three units of life saving blood and multiple drones can be dispatched simultaneously to a set of coordinates.

Delivery of Covid vaccines to remote areas, quickly and without the need for extended refrigeration (they’re used as they arrive) is promising to open a whole new sector to these intrepid little aviators. Watch the video below to see just how amazing these drones are.

Meet the founders

Keller Rinaudo
CEO | Co-Founder
Email: None
Bio: Keller C. Rinaudo is an American robotics and autonomous airplane entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Zipline. He was also the CEO and a co-founder of Romotive, a former company established in 2011 with Kickstarter funding that made inexpensive small robots that use mobile phones as their computing system, machine vision system, and wireless communication system. Romotive essentially shut down in 2014 and morphed into Zipline. Keller is a Harvard graduate (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a 3.9 GPA) and grew up rock climbing. At one point, he was ranked in the top 10 in sport climbing
Connect: Linkedin | Twitter

Keenan Wyrobek
CTO | Co-Founder
Email: None
Bio: Roboticist Keenan Wyrobek’s first career was founding Willow Garage which created ROS (Robot Operating System) that now makes robotic components inter-operable. After creating a foundation to sustain this vital piece of open source software, Keenan went in search of new engineering challenges. He became intrigued with the idea of helping developing countries deliver crucial medical supplies to areas that are poorly served by roads. He co-founded Zipline, the VC-funded venture that is improving the lives of people in rural Rwanda. 
Connect: Linkedin | Twitter

Will Hetzler
Co-Founder
Email: None
Bio: Will Hetzler graduated from Harvard in 2009 as an economist. He worked as a consultant for Oliver Wyman for over three years, advising Fortune 500 aviation companies on engine maintenance, technical sourcing, supply chain and risk management.In 2014, he co-founded Zipline International in Silicon Valley to make drones to deliver critical medical supplies to remote parts of the world. He led the company’s work in Africa and established Zipline’s partnership with the Government of Rwanda. In 2018, he became the head of business development for the US and Canada.
Connect: Linkedin | Twitter

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Company Name: Marux
Established: 2019
Company Type: MARUX, INC. (Identification Number: 802516267)
Field: AI Healthcare Software Solutions
Location: 6001 Cass Ave, 2nd Floor WeWork, Detroit, Michigan, 48202
Official Website: marux.co
Vision: We envision becoming a default embedded solution for all emergency responders and medical personnel.

Core Product/Innovation/Service

Marux has developed a real-time AI-enabled remote monitoring app assisting medical care providers. Their solution offers a machine learning diagnostic application that streamlines critical care and seeks to address the following key issue.

Every 12 seconds a 911 emergency call is made. Thousands of lives could be saved by reducing emergency response times by just one minute. Faster medical diagnostics could save thousands more. Envision AI technology addresses these critical situations relaying vital diagnostic information to incoming emergency personnel and hospitals.

The solution seeks to improve response time in medical emergencies with instant availability of patient diagnostics and vitals, crucial in saving lives. MARUX™ can help save time in properly assessing and doing a pre-diagnostic on incoming patients.

It is achieved by real-time accident detection and instant AI-powered accident (health) data analytics in Marux cloud and real-time notification and streaming of data to first responders. Their CEO, Jonathan Lightning Rayos explains in the video below.

MARUX™ has three provisional patents in USA, Europe and China secured for their data process flow, integrated AI and real-time data capture software. They currently have commitment letters from international automotive suppliers for the use of their pilot program, as well as a scaled role out of their capabilities within a few key major metropolitan hospitals and EMS groups.

For more detailed investor related information explore these links or contect the company directly.

Webfunder, Company PDF

Meet the founders

Jonathan Lightning Rayos
CEO | Founder
Email: None
Bio: Has the superpowers of seeing into the deep future. Ability to design, code, transform and lead a team for digital transformation. Founded three technology companies in media, and hardware. Two successful exits & design patents. Self-taught in JavaScript, Python, Unity. Passionate and self-trained in golf, triathlons, snowboarding, and simulation racing.
Connect: Linkedin | Twitter

Michael ​D’Orazio
COO | Co-Founder
Email: None
Bio: With the superpowers to build and connect. Has vast expertise of centralizing teams of auto-mobility users. Founded a leading consulting firm for the OEM and Tier-1 sector in services, solutions, and systems applications. Passionate about Italian culture, classic cars, motorcycles, and family.
Connect: Linkedin | Twitter

Darko Stanimirovic
CTO | Co-Founder
Email: None
Bio: Over 10 years of experience in AR, XR, ML leadership. Master of Science degrees in Computer Vision + Robotics. Thesis in intelligence autonomous systems. Patent in ML, AR utilization. Has the brains and the brawn to lead designers and coders.
Connect: Linkedin | Twitter

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