If you ever call 911 from an area that is difficult to arrive, you may listen to the buzz of a drone long before a police cruise stops. And there is a good possibility that it is one made by Brinc dronesA Seattle -based startup founded by Blake Resnick, 25, who left the university to direct the company.
Brinc, which was founded in 2017 and has the CEO of Operai, Sam Altman, as an investor in the seed stage, only announced Today that has raised $ 75 million in new funds led by ventures indices.
This carries the total financing of the startup to $ 157.2 million. While Brinc is not revealing his exact assessment, Resnick told TechCrunch that it is a “round” compared At its most recent round, a B series of $ 55 million in 2022. Brinc was last valued at $ 300 million in 2023, Bloomberg reported.
Brinc sells a variety of drone systems to police and public security agencies. It is part of a broader trend of the new American drones companies that manufacture at the national level due to the growing restrictions against Chinese companies that dominate the commercial drone industry. (Resnick briefly admitted to DJI, with much the largest Chinese player, a few years before founding Brinc).
With this financing, Brinc is launch A “strategic alliance” with Motorola Solutions, which also invested in the round. Motorola Solutions is a giant in the United States security industry whose software promotes many 911 call centers. The association will integrate the drones directly in those centers, which allows operators to dispatch drones for certain emergency calls if they are clear by an existing motorola system.
However, Brinc is in an increasingly competitive field with other new US companies such as Fling Safety and Skydio. Each also offers drones for the police and has multimillionaire valuations. Flock stood at $ 7.5 billion in its last round last month, while Skydio was valued at $ 2.2 billion in 2023.
When it comes to competition, Resnick tells Techcrunch that there is a lot of space for growth in a market that is otherwise dominated by Chinese players. Beyond the Motorola association, he says that Brinc offers his part of unique features, such as the ability to break windows or deliver emergency medical devices.
