Brinc Raises $75 Million In Funding Led By Index Ventures For Drone Development

Brinc, a Seattle-based drone startup founded in 2017 by 25-year-old Blake Resnick, has raised $75 million in new funding led by Index Ventures, bringing its total funding to $157.2 million. Resnick, who dropped out of college and briefly interned at DJI before founding Brinc, is positioning the company at the forefront of U.S.-made public safety drones amid tightening restrictions on Chinese drone tech. Brinc, which previously raised a $55 million Series B in 2022 and was last valued at $300 million, counts OpenAI CEO Sam Altman among its early investors. The latest round also includes a strategic alliance with Motorola Solutions to integrate Brinc drones directly into 911 call centers, allowing emergency drones to be dispatched in real time. INVESTORS: Index Ventures, Motorola Solutions, Mike Volpi & Dylan Field AMOUNT: $75,000,000 HQ: #Seattle #Washington #VentureCapital #Brinc #BlakeResnick #IndexVentures #MotorolaSolutions #MikeVolpi #DylanField #TradedVC

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Puppy Sphere Secures Seed Round Of $24 Million From Strategic Investors Including The School Of Hard KnocksPuppy Sphere (@ThePuppySphere), a New York-based wellness brand centered on the human-animal bond, has raised a Seed round from a group of strategic investors including The School of Hard Knocks, Tobi Oluwole, Jake Fleshner, Torch Collective, former Massage Envy CEO David Humphrey, and other founders and operators. Founded by Francesca Albo and Lea Burbidge Izquierdo, Puppy Sphere has scaled its puppy yoga concept into a broader experiential wellness platform with 13 studios, corporate wellness programs, brand partnerships, and live activations, serving more than 450,000 customers and partnering with companies including Google, Amazon, Netflix, TikTok, and the NBA. FUN FACT: Puppy Sphere was born from two Canadian founders’ own mental health journeys and has since grown into 13 studios across North America, $14M+ in cumulative revenue, and 450,000+ customers, all without outside capital. Along the way, the brand has welcomed names like Sabrina Carpenter, Simu Liu, Trevor Noah and Alessia Cara, while building a broader wellness platform around the gentle power of puppy therapy. Now Puppy Sphere is opening its cap table for the first time through a strategic angel round, bringing together leaders across media, consumer growth and wellness, including The School of Hard Knocks, former Massage Envy CEO David Humphrey, growth entrepreneur Tobi Oluwole, and Nucleus Network co-founder Jake Fleshner, alongside a broader group of strategic founders and operators. The vision: bring the gentle power of puppy therapy across the globe. FOUNDERS: Francesca Albo (@FrancescaaAlbo), Lea Burbidge Izquierdo (@LeaburbIz) INVESTORS: The School of Hard Knocks (@TheSchoolofHardKnockz), Tobi Oluwole (@TheTobiOluwole), Jake Fleshner (@JakeFleshner) Torch Collective, Heather Stark, Will Bodewes, Craig Zingerline & more ROUND: Seed VALUATION CAP: $24,000,000 HQ: New York, New York #VentureCapital #PuppySphere #TradedPartner #FrancescaAlbo #TradedVC