Zipline

“Our portfolio company Zipline is delivering blood where it's needed throughout Western Rwanda. There's one place they collect blood in Western Rwanda. There are tons of places they need it, but sometimes it's dangerous or time consuming to get to the place tha…”

“So we carry about one and a half kilograms today.”

“When you think about personalized medicine, medicine that's genetically specific to the person, as we go in this direction with these rare immunotherapies and things like this, You don't get to just like stock a hundred of them at the hospital. You basically h…”

“Building a fixed wing vehicle allows us to have about 20 times more range than a quadcopter, so instead of going five kilometers, we go a 150 kilometers, and when you have 20 times more range, that, that means you serve 400 times the service area.”

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

“Yeah, and we actually use the exact same cell that goes into the Tesla Model S.”

“It's very efficient for UPS to drive a big brown truck up to the lobby of a skyscraper and unload it. Whereas We're a lot more focused on suburban and rural where it's less efficient.”

“So we can drop into about two parking spaces. So any driveway, as long as like a house had a driveway, we could deliver to that house.”

“The first thing we do that isn't medicine will probably be sperm.”

“You only need Something like 30 feet by 80 feet for both launch and landing.”

“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.”

“You know, we're going to be focused on healthcare for a long time, just because I think that's where this is really needed.”

“The way we've done that is essentially we've looked at how flight computers in commercial jets are designed, and then we've built the same architecture just using cell phone components for one 1000th of the cost.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Because it costs less than doing a similar delivery using a motorcycle. It's 20 times as fast, and it doesn't depend on roads.”

“So right now we're, we are designing, manufacturing, and operating a completely new fleet of vehicles about every four or five months. That's new airframe, new avionics, new everything.”

“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.”