Brahma AI targets global scale with $2 billion valuation, Silicon Valley push

Brahma AI, an enterprise AI technology company focused on audiovisual content, is preparing a major Silicon Valley expansion as it moves beyond its media and entertainment base into sports, healthcare and advertising, while keeping India at the centre of its technology and R&D operations.

The company plans to expand its product and engineering teams, build a larger go-to-market organisation and establish a significant presence in Silicon Valley. It is also preparing to launch interactive digital humans and is developing a model-agnostic platform that allows enterprises to use different AI models while retaining control over content, rights, security and provenance.

Narasimhan said the expansion was not about building an India-based company with overseas offices but creating a global technology business from the outset. “Brahma AI is not an India-headquartered company with international offices. It is a genuinely global company with no conventional headquarters,” he said.


The company operates across Los Angeles, London, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, with teams distributed across markets.

India, however, remains central to its technology strategy, with significant R&D and core technology development taking place in the country and new intellectual property being developed across Brahma AI Core and Studio.

“India is emphatically not a back office for Brahma AI. It is one of the centres in which the company invents and builds its technology,” Narasimhan said.

The expansion comes alongside a $150 million funding round at a $2 billion post-money valuation, with Multiples investing $100 million. Prime Focus's regulatory filing also says it has received indications or order confirmations for more than a further $150 million, although these have not yet become completed subscriptions.

For Multiples, the investment is a bet on audiovisual content becoming a core layer of enterprise infrastructure.

Renuka Ramnath, founder, MD and CEO of Multiples Alternate Asset Management, said Brahma AI brings together content intelligence, digital humans, localisation and workflow automation, while its existing enterprise relationships provide scope to deepen adoption and create new applications.

“As audiovisual and AI-driven engagement become central to how enterprises operate, the ability to produce and govern content at scale stops being a nice-to-have and becomes core infrastructure,” Ramnath said.

She said the company's existing customer base was another important part of the investment thesis. Its customer base includes blue-chip organisations across media and entertainment, sport and healthcare, including Paramount, Warner Bros., Channel 4, the NBA, ESPN and Mayo Clinic.

“What gives us real conviction is how much deeper Brahma AI can go with the enterprises it already serves, as they discover new applications and new ways to monetise their own content on the platform,” Ramnath said.

The transaction will also alter Brahma AI's relationship with Prime Focus and DNEG. Upon completion, Prime Focus will cease to control Brahma AI but will retain 65.67% economic ownership on a fully diluted basis. Brahma AI will operate as a standalone entity, with Narasimhan retaining operational control.

The company is seeking to broaden its commercial base beyond media and entertainment. Sports is already gaining traction, while healthcare and advertising are emerging as strategically important markets.

Sports offers applications around analysing large volumes of audiovisual data and creating personalised experiences. Healthcare, meanwhile, provides a more demanding environment in which accuracy, security and trust are critical.

Ramnath said AI was changing the economics and speed of content creation, but enterprise adoption would ultimately depend on trust. “The opportunity is in doing this in a secure, governed way that enterprises can actually trust and scale across their organisation, with fidelity and provenance built in,” she said.

At the centre of Brahma AI's strategy is its decision not to build a single foundation model. Instead, it is positioning itself as an enterprise AI infrastructure company that can operate across different models.

Brahma AI Core provides infrastructure to understand, contextualise and govern audiovisual assets, while Brahma AI Studio focuses on creation and transformation, including digital humans, voice, localisation and Neural Performance.

Narasimhan said the company's ambition was to build infrastructure capable of managing the growing complexity around AI-generated content.

“Who owns the underlying content? Who authorised its use? Is the person real? Is the voice authentic? What has been changed? Which model was used? Can its provenance be traced? And can a global enterprise deploy all of this securely?” he said.

Security, authenticity and provenance are becoming increasingly important to the company's proposition as AI-generated content becomes easier to create. Brahma AI is investing in technology that allows enterprises to understand, govern and trace audiovisual assets.

The company is also building an ecosystem through partnerships with Google and Hakuhodo. DNEG is both a customer and strategic production and distribution partner, providing a real-world environment for Brahma AI to test its technology while offering production and execution capabilities for deployments requiring high-end visual effects and post-production.

Its technology has already been used on major film projects. Neural Performance was used for face replacement on Toxic and for visual lip-sync across languages for the international release of Ramayana. Brahma AI said the technology received a 2026 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for AI-based face replacement and performance-preserving post-production transformation.

The company generated approximately $74 million in revenue last year and is tracking above $120 million this year, according to Narasimhan. About 80% of revenue comes from 24 large enterprise customers, while managed services account for less than 15%. The company says it is close to break-even despite continued investment in R&D and growth.

Its enterprise relationships are typically long term, often spanning three to five years, with recurring revenue coming from technology relationships, platform licensing and usage-based products.

Ramnath said Multiples would remain actively involved as Brahma AI enters its next phase, including supporting R&D, international expansion, talent and processes. “We are going to be an active partner through this stage of growth,” she said.

Brahma AI has no immediate IPO plans. Its focus is on technology development, deeper enterprise adoption, international expansion and investment in R&D and talent. “As the company continues to scale, all strategic options remain open, including potentially accessing the public markets in the future,” Narasimhan said.

For now, the company is positioning itself for a much larger opportunity than its current valuation. “The ambition is much bigger than building another AI application,” Narasimhan said. “The ambition is to build one of the defining global technology companies of the AI era.”