If you ever call 911 in an area that is difficult to reach, you could hear the buzz of a drone long before a police cruiser stops. And there is a good chance that it will be done by BRINC dronesA startup based in Seattle founded by Blake Resnick, 25, who abandoned the university to lead the company.
Brinc, which was founded in 2017 and has the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, as a investor in the seed phase, just announcement Today, he has raised $ 75 million in new funding led by Index Ventures.
This covers total startup to $ 157.2 million. Although Brinc does not disclose its exact valuation, Resnick told Techcrunch that it was a “record” compared In its last round, a 55 million dollars B series in 2022. Brinc was last time at $ 300 million in 2023, Bloomberg reported.
Brinc sells a variety of drone systems to the police and public security agencies. This is part of a broader trend of manufacturing drone startups at the national level due to the increase in restrictions against Chinese companies that dominate the commercial drone industry. (Resnick briefly interned in Dji, by far the greatest Chinese player, a few years before founding Brinc.)
With this funding, Brinc is launch A “strategic alliance” with Motorola Solutions, which has also invested in the Tour. Motorola Solutions is a giant in the American security industry whose software feeds numerous call centers 911. The partnership will integrate Druns drones directly into these centers, allowing operators to send drones for certain emergency calls if they are erased by an existing Motorola IA system.
Brinc is however in an increasingly competitive field with other American startups such as Flock Safety and Skydio. Everyone also offers police to the police and has evaluations of several billion dollars. The herd amounted to $ 7.5 billion in its last round last month, while Skydio was raised at $ 2.2 billion in 2023.
Regarding competition, Resnick tells Techcrunch that there is a lot of room for growth on a market which is differently dominated by Chinese players. Beyond the Motorola partnership, he says that Brinc offers its share of unique features, such as the possibility of breaking the windows or delivering emergency medical devices.
