Rwanda

“We deliver blood to about half of the transfusing facilities in Rwanda.”

“UPS is basically supporting the work that we're doing in Rwanda. So they've both been helping fund the work and then also been advising us in terms of actually creating a logistics network at national scale.”

“What we're doing in Rwanda is illegal in the US, unfortunately.”

“I kind of feel like Rwanda is probably what it felt like to be living in the U.S. 200 years ago, when there was relatively little regulation and just tons of people building new things, building new infrastructure”

“For Keller, it's a real revenue producing operation. They're making, you know, some money on this.”

“There are three or four refugee camps within range of the first distribution center we've set up.”

“It turns out if you can get sperm to these farmers, you can increase the economic productivity of that family by like 30 to 50%, which is a huge deal.”

“This distribution center is serving about half of all the hospitals in Rwanda, and we are already planning a second distribution center, which will put every single one of the eleven million citizens within a 15 minute delivery of any essential medical product…”

“We are currently covering all the costs of the system with what we're doing in Rwanda, and we are going to be using money from that first distribution center to fund the second.”

“But interestingly, the regulation there is just as strict as the regulation here in the US.”

“Rwanda delivers about 55,000 units of blood a year. 50% of that is going toward moms right after giving birth, and 30% is going to our kids under the age of five who have anemia due to malaria.”

“Rwanda actually has the only autonomous system operating at national scale anywhere in the world.”

“At this point, Zipline is delivering around 20% of the national blood supply of Rwanda outside of Kigali.”

“We have a portfolio company called zip line, and they have been delivering blood throughout Rwanda for a few years now. All together, they deliver a 20% of all blood that's involved in transfusions in Rwanda, 25%, and they do it by a fixed wing drone.”