Manna Air Delivery Raises $50Million Series B as It Announces Plans to Expand in the United States

Man­na Air Deliv­ery has announced a $50 mil­lion fund­ing round to scale its proven oper­a­tions fur­ther in the Unit­ed States and Europe.

The com­pa­ny has com­plet­ed over 250,000 suc­cess­ful deliv­er­ies and is cer­ti­fied by EASA, set­ting the glob­al bench­mark for drone logis­tics. Part­ner­ing with both glob­al giants and local busi­ness­es, Man­na deliv­ers a wide vari­ety of goods in just min­utes, empow­er­ing busi­ness­es and sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing car­bon emis­sions.

Investors in this round include ARK Invest, known for back­ing com­pa­nies such as Ope­nAI, Anthrop­ic, Tes­la and SpaceX, the Ire­land Strate­gic Invest­ment Fund (ISIF) and Schooner Cap­i­tal, along­side exist­ing investors Coca-Cola HBC and Molten Ven­tures. The round brings the com­pa­ny’s total fund­ing to $110 mil­lion. 

Bob­by Healy, Man­na Air Deliv­ery’s CEO and Founder, said: “Man­na Air Deliv­ery is ded­i­cat­ed to improv­ing the world by mak­ing light­ning-fast sub­ur­ban deliv­er­ies afford­able, acces­si­ble, green and safe. Our tech­nol­o­gy reduces road con­ges­tion, cuts emis­sions and helps local busi­ness­es deliv­er every­day goods to com­mu­ni­ties faster.”

“We’ve proven the tech­nol­o­gy and the eco­nom­ics of autonomous deliv­ery. On dai­ly deliv­er­ies in sub­ur­ban areas we are a world leader. Now it’s about scale. We’re expand­ing rapid­ly in the Unit­ed States with plans to launch up to 40 new bases as we build the infra­struc­ture for the next gen­er­a­tion of logis­tics. It’s been excit­ing to see the enthu­si­asm for aer­i­al deliv­ery in tech­nol­o­gy-for­ward mar­kets like the US and oth­ers.”

Recent­ly Man­na announced a part­ner­ship with Uber, adding to its exist­ing part­ner­ships with Deliv­eroo, Just Eat and Door­Dash.

Cus­tomers can order through the Man­na app or direct­ly via its part­ner plat­forms, with autonomous unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles (UAVs) deliv­er­ing every­day items to sub­ur­ban com­mu­ni­ties with­in min­utes. Through these inte­gra­tions, Man­na is posi­tion­ing itself as a core infra­struc­ture provider for the next gen­er­a­tion of mobil­i­ty and instant logis­tics.

For inde­pen­dent retail­ers, Manna’s plat­form enables prof­itable sub­ur­ban last-mile deliv­ery, allow­ing local busi­ness­es from cafés and restau­rants to phar­ma­cies, book­shops and cloth­ing stores to reach cus­tomers in min­utes with­out the cost and com­plex­i­ty of road-based deliv­ery.

Man­na was one of the first drone deliv­ery com­pa­nies glob­al­ly to demon­strate pos­i­tive unit eco­nom­ics for sub­ur­ban retail deliv­ery.

Orhan Gazelle, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Schooner Cap­i­tal said: “Man­na is build­ing one of the most com­pelling real-world appli­ca­tions of autonomous tech­nol­o­gy we have seen.

“The com­pa­ny has demon­strat­ed that drone deliv­ery can oper­ate safe­ly, effi­cient­ly and at scale, and we believe it has the poten­tial to fun­da­men­tal­ly reshape last-mile logis­tics. We are excit­ed to sup­port Man­na as it expands inter­na­tion­al­ly and con­tin­ues to build the infra­struc­ture for the future of autonomous deliv­ery.”

For cus­tomers, Manna’s UAV tech­nol­o­gy deliv­ers orders in under three min­utes while reduc­ing road con­ges­tion and cut­ting CO₂ emis­sions by up to 85 per cent com­pared with road-based deliv­ery.

By order­ing through Man­na or part­ner apps, deliv­er­ies are low­ered safe­ly to cus­tomers’ gar­dens or dri­ve­ways using recy­clable pack­ag­ing and biodegrad­able teth­ers, offer­ing a safer, green­er and more effi­cient alter­na­tive for last-mile logis­tics.

Pop­u­lar with fam­i­lies, peo­ple with mobil­i­ty issues and those work­ing from home, Man­na enables house­holds to receive every­day essen­tials in min­utes with­out leav­ing home — reflect­ed in a Net Pro­mot­er Score (NPS) of 86, plac­ing it among the high­est-rat­ed ser­vices in con­sumer tech­nol­o­gy.

Man­na holds a Gold Stan­dard Light UAS Oper­a­tor Cer­tifi­cate (LUC) under the Euro­pean Union Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Agency (EASA) frame­work and has com­plet­ed more than 250,000 reg­u­lat­ed com­mer­cial unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle (UAV) flights using Irish-built soft­ware and hard­ware, sup­port­ed by a team of more than 170 staff.