Brahma AI Raises $150 Million in Funding Round, Reaches $2 Billion Valuation

Brahma AI Secures Major Funding Round at $2 Billion Valuation

Brahma AI, an enterprise AI company focused on AI-generated audiovisual content, has raised $150 million in a funding round led by Indian private equity firm Multiples Alternate Asset Management, achieving a $2 billion post-money valuation1

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. Multiples invested $100 million through preferred shares in the AI-native operating system for enterprise audiovisual content3

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. The company also received additional investor interest for a further $100 million, with indications for more than $150 million in order confirmations that have not yet become completed subscriptions1

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From Hollywood Visual Effects to Enterprise AI Platform

Brahma AI operates under the ownership of Indian media and entertainment firm Prime Focus through its UK-based subsidiary DNEG, the global visual effects and animation studio behind blockbuster movies including the Dune series and "The Odyssey"1

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. Following the transaction, Prime Focus will retain 65.67% economic ownership on a fully diluted basis but will cease to control Brahma AI as it operates as a standalone entity2

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. The company's foundation includes technology from the merger with UK-based Metaphysic in February 2025, a company that creates generative AI media in real time and was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential companies in 20231

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. The integration brought together Prime Focus Technologies' media-management capabilities with Metaphysic's Atman digital-human technology and Vaani voice-localisation technology3

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Model-Agnostic AI Platform Targeting Multiple Sectors

The AI platform for enterprises is divided into two main components: Brahma AI Core, which provides infrastructure to understand, contextualise and govern audiovisual assets, and Brahma AI Studio, which focuses on creation and transformation including interactive digital humans, voice, localisation and Neural Performance2

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. The company is developing a model-agnostic platform that allows enterprises to use different AI models while retaining control over content, rights, security and provenance2

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. Brahma AI's global anchor customers span media and entertainment, sports, healthcare and advertising, including Warner Bros., the NBA, Mayo Clinic, Paramount, Channel 4 and ESPN1

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Silicon Valley Expansion and Global Technology Strategy

Founder and CEO Prabhu Narasimhan emphasized the company's global ambitions: "Brahma AI is not an India-headquartered company with international offices. It is a genuinely global company with no conventional headquarters"2

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. The AI-powered audiovisual content platform operates across Los Angeles, London, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, with distributed teams across markets2

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. The company plans to expand its product and engineering teams, build a larger go-to-market organization and establish a significant presence in Silicon Valley2

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. India remains central to its technology strategy, with significant R&D and core technology development taking place in the country. "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 said2

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Recognition and Strategic Partnerships Fuel Growth

Brahma AI was recently named a recipient of a 2026 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for AI-based face replacement and performance-preserving post-production transformation, recognizing the company's Neural Performance technology4

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. The company has established partnerships with Google, Japanese advertising group Hakuhodo and DNEG, with Google Cloud announcing a partnership in March to scale interactive digital humans for businesses3

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. Renuka Ramnath, founder, MD and CEO of Multiples Alternate Asset Management, stated: "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"2

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. The fresh capital will support international expansion, hiring, workflow automation capabilities and building out the company's AI-driven content management systems3

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