Startup Will Use Drones to Deliver Drugs and Blood Across Ghana
- Zipline targets world’s largest medical drone delivery service
- Another two country rollouts planned for next 12 months
A Zipline technician launches a drone in Muhanga, Rwanda, in 2016.
Photographer: Stephanie Aglietti/AFP via Getty Images
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U.S. venture capitalists Sequoia Capital Operations LLC and Andreessen Horowitz are backing a tech startup that says it’s the world’s largest medical drone delivery service, sending 148 types of medicine to areas around Ghana.
San Francisco-based Zipline International Inc. struck a deal with the West African nation’s government to make on-demand deliveries of vaccines, blood products and other treatments, Chief Executive Officer Keller Rinaudo said Wednesday in an interview from Omenako, the site of the first distribution center about 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of the capital, Accra.