Motorola and Index Ventures back BRINC with $125M to put a 911 drone on every US police and fire station roof — TFN

BRINC has raised $125 million in a round led by Motorola Solutions, with participation from Index Ventures and Figma CEO Dylan Field, bringing its total funding to more than $280 million.

The Seattle startup wants to deploy 911 response drones across all 80,000 police and fire stations in the United States.

Revenue more than tripled in 2025, production capacity increased fivefold, and the company has already signed nearly four times as many public safety contracts this year.

Seattle-based BRINC has raised $125 million in a funding round led by Motorola Solutions, with participation from Index Ventures and Figma founder Dylan Field, taking its total funding past $280 million. The company said the round values it at nearly double last year’s $480 million mark

The round’s other backers include OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, Palantir’s chief technology officer Shyam Sankar, former LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner, former acting US defense secretary Patrick Shanahan, and former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski.