Manna Air Delivery

Manna Air Delivery designs, builds and operates autonomous drone delivery systems from Ireland. Its service handles short-range delivery of food, groceries, medical items and local retail orders, using regulated drone flights to move small payloads across suburban delivery zones.

Market context

Manna is one of the more advanced real-world drone delivery operators in Europe, with meaningful commercial flight volume and a clear operating model around dense suburban logistics. It matters as a scaled aerial robotics builder that sits at the intersection of autonomous flight, logistics, and regulated urban deployment.

Facts

Website: https://www.manna.aero
HQ: Dublin, Ireland
Founded: 2018
Segment: aerial robotics and drones
Known funding rounds: 4

Funding

2026-04-01 - Series B - $50M - Manna Air Delivery raises $50M Series B to expand in the United States - source: businesswire.com
2025-03-27 - Growth round - $30M - Manna closes $30M funding round to scale European drone delivery operations - source: ucd.ie
2023-10-25 - Strategic investment - Coca-Cola HBC invests in Manna to support next-generation delivery drones - source: manna.aero
2021-04-29 - Series A - $25M - Manna raises USD 25M Series A for drone delivery - source: thespoon.tech

Investors

Coca-Cola HBC - Lead - Unknown - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-10-25 - latest 2026-04-01
Dynamo VC - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-03-27 - latest 2026-04-01
Enterprise Ireland - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-03-27 - latest 2026-04-01
Molten Ventures - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-03-27 - latest 2026-04-01
Radius Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-03-27 - latest 2026-04-01
Tapestry VC - Lead - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-03-27 - latest 2026-04-01
ARK Invest - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-01
Ireland Strategic Investment Fund - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-01
Schooner Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-01
Tapestry - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-01
Atlantic Bridge - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
Draper Esprit - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
DST Global partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
Dynamo Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
Elkstone - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29
Team Europe - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-04-29

Autonomous drone delivery for local commerce and lightweight logistics

Manna Air Delivery operates autonomous drone delivery services for food, retail and lightweight local logistics. The company focuses on fast, low-cost delivery from local merchants to nearby customers using remotely supervised drone operations.

Target environment: Suburban delivery zones, local commerce networks, restaurant delivery areas, retail logistics routes and regulated low-altitude airspace.
Deployment model: Drone delivery service model built around aircraft operations, merchant partnerships, local launch sites, regulatory approvals and fleet supervision.
Customer context: Restaurants, grocery and retail partners, delivery platforms, consumers, local authorities and airspace regulators.
Workflow context: Autonomous drone delivery, lightweight parcel transport, food delivery, local logistics, fleet operations, route supervision and merchant fulfilment.
Commercial maturity: Manna has substantial operational delivery experience in Ireland and public expansion activity. Its maturity is stronger than many drone-delivery startups, but scaling remains tied to regulation, lo…
Market position: European drone delivery operator positioned around dense local-commerce routes rather than long-distance logistics.
Adoption constraints: Airspace regulation, noise, public acceptance, weather, unit economics, site density, merchant adoption and operational safety.
Adjacent context: Drone delivery, aerial robotics, local logistics, food delivery, autonomous operations and regulated airspace.
Source confidence: high

Events

2026-07-08 - Deployment - Manna launches full-scale U.S. drone-delivery operation in Tulsa - Manna launched its first full-scale metropolitan U.S. operation in Tulsa and named the city as its central U.S. operating base. The company said it has completed almost 380,000 global deliveries and plans to build a U.S. manufacturing base in Tulsa for its Am…
2026-06-18 - Regulatory - Manna Air Delivery receives UK CAA SAIL III operational authorisation - The authorisation is a higher-assurance approval tier for complex uncrewed-aircraft operations in the UK. The assessment covered operational, technical and organisational safety evidence. The approval follows Manna’s earlier European LUC milestone and support…
2026-04-01 - Funding - Manna Air Delivery raises $50M Series B to expand in the United States - Manna announced a $50 million Series B to scale its autonomous drone delivery network across the United States and Europe. The company said the financing brought total funding to $110 million and highlighted more than 250,000 flights completed to date. Manna…
2025-06-05 - Partnership - Deliveroo launches drone deliveries in Dublin with Manna - Deliveroo launched drone delivery in Dublin with Manna as the aerial operations partner. The rollout extended Manna''s platform-partner strategy by adding another major food-delivery interface on top of its drone network. The event reinforced Manna''s positio…
2025-05-21 - Regulatory - UK CAA awards support funding for shared-airspace drone operations involving Manna in Lancashire - Manna was part of a funded UK shared-airspace drone operations initiative in Lancashire supported by the UK CAA Airspace Modernisation Support Fund. The program focused on validating how multiple drone operators can safely share live airspace, making it a reg…
2025-03-27 - Funding - Manna closes $30M funding round to scale European drone delivery operations - Manna announced a $30 million funding round to scale operations in Ireland and internationally. The round brought total equity funding to over $60 million and followed the company''s growth as a commercial drone delivery operator. Public reporting tied the ra…
2025-03-06 - Partnership - Just Eat Takeaway.com global drone delivery partnership with Manna kicks off in Dublin - Just Eat Takeaway.com and Manna launched the first phase of their global drone delivery partnership in Dublin. The rollout put Manna's aerial logistics operations inside a major food-delivery ordering platform. The launch created a scaled European distributio…
2025-01-29 - Demonstration - Wolt and Manna begin winter drone delivery testing in Finland - Manna and Wolt began winter drone delivery testing in Espoo, Finland to validate operations in Nordic cold-weather conditions. The test program expanded Manna''s operating proof points beyond Ireland into more demanding environmental conditions relevant to ae…
2023-10-25 - Funding - Coca-Cola HBC invests in Manna to support next-generation delivery drones - Coca-Cola HBC made a strategic investment in Manna as part of its push into next-generation delivery and convenience infrastructure. The event signaled commercial interest from a major consumer brand and distribution player in Manna''s aerial logistics model.…
2021-04-29 - Funding - Manna raises USD 25M Series A for drone delivery - Draper Esprit led the round with participation from Team Europe, DST Global partners and existing investors. The financing supported regulated suburban drone delivery operations. The capital supports unmanned aircraft, air mobility or counter-drone operations…

Team

Bobby Healy - Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Manna Air Delivery canonical Korthos profile