Brahma AI Adds Policy Advisor After $150M Raise

For AI companies building generative media tooling, policy is becoming a product differentiator. Brahma AI's appointment of Shweta Rajpal Kohli — the founder-led Startup Policy Forum chief who represents $100B+ in Indian tech value — signals that provenance, consent, and regulatory readiness will be engineering priorities, not compliance afterthoughts.

Brahma AI, the AI-native operating system for enterprise audiovisual content, said on September 29, 2026 that it had appointed Shweta Rajpal Kohli as Senior Policy Advisor and a member of its Advisory Board. The announcement, distributed via PRNewswire and carried by The Hindu's brand hub, is a company statement rather than independent reporting, but it contains enough strategic detail to frame Brahma AI's direction. The appointment comes only days after Brahma AI said it raised $150 million led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management, positioning the governance hire as part of an aggressive expansion phase.

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The appointment comes only days after Brahma AI said it raised $150 million led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management, positioning the governance hire as part of an aggressive expansion phase.

The move places a veteran public policy operator at the center of the company's responsible AI strategy. Kohli is President and CEO of the Startup Policy Forum, an industry body that claims to represent more than 75 high-growth Indian companies with a combined valuation above $100 billion. She also serves as Managing Partner of the New Economy Collective, and over a 25-plus-year career has led public policy roles across Asia for Peak XV Partners, Sequoia Capital India, Salesforce, and Uber. Her earlier work as an award-winning financial journalist, along with fellowships including the British Chevening Scholarship and the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program, gives her a mix of policy, media, and corporate access that technology companies increasingly seek as regulation tightens.

Brahma AI's focus area — enterprise audiovisual content — is one of the most contested domains in artificial intelligence. Copyright, deepfakes, consent, provenance, and authenticity are no longer theoretical concerns for enterprise customers; they are procurement, legal, and reputational risks. Founder and CEO Prabhu Narasimhan made this explicit in the appointment release, stating that consent, authenticity, and provenance are fundamental and cannot be bolted on afterwards. The appointment signals that Brahma AI is treating policy as an input into product and engineering decisions rather than an after-the-fact compliance function. As the company builds an AI-native operating system for audiovisual content, a senior advisor with Kohli's regulatory network could help shape product design around provenance standards, content credentials, and consent frameworks before regulators mandate them.

The $150 million funding round, led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management, gives Brahma AI the capital to invest in policy engagement, government relations, and trust infrastructure. Private capital flowing into content AI has increased scrutiny from media producers, rights holders, and regulators. By appointing Kohli, Brahma AI may also be signaling to investors and enterprise clients that it can navigate India's evolving technology policy environment while simultaneously engaging regulators in Europe, the United States, and other markets. Kohli's Startup Policy Forum role specifically positions her at the intersection of Indian founders and policymakers, which could be strategically valuable as India drafts AI regulations and as global companies look to India for both engineering talent and policy experiments.