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Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 12:30 PM 4 min read
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and former White House advisor Jared Kushner has entered the artificial intelligence sector with Brain Co., a startup that announced on Sept. 11 that it raised $30 million in Series A funding to help governments and large enterprises adopt AI in practical ways.
Kushner co-founded Brain Co. alongside tech investor Elad Gil and former Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, forming a leadership team that blends politics, technology, and finance.
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The funding round was led by Kushner's private-equity firm Affinity Partners and Gil's Gil Capital, while attracting support from Silicon Valley billionaires including Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong, Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Perplexity AI co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas.
Brain Co. also announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI, enabling the company to build applications tailored for large-scale organizations.
The San Francisco-based company employs about 40 people and already works with 10 firms listed on the Forbes Global 2000, including auction house Sotheby's and private- equity giant Warburg Pincus, according to Forbes.
Brain Co.'s customer base also spans governments, healthcare systems, energy providers, hotels, and restaurant chains, illustrating a broad strategy to apply AI tools across industries.
Brain Co. CEO Clemens Mewald, who previously led AI product teams at Google Brain and Databricks, said the company does not intend to specialize in a single sector. "So far, we haven't seen a reason to only double down on one sector," he told Forbes. "Actually, it turns out that at the technology level and the AI capability level, a lot of the use cases look very similar."
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Brain Co. aims to create applications that sit between foundational AI models and the operational needs of institutions. "We're living through a once-in-a-generation platform shift," Kushner said in the statement. "After speaking with Elad, we realized we could build a bridge between Silicon Valley's best AI talent and the world's most important institutions to drive global impact."
