Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, September 23rd.

Today on Forbes, Jared Kushner's new startup helps businesses figure out how to use AI.

Thrive Capital's Josh Kushner has emerged as one of the most active investors in artificial intelligence, making billion-dollar bets on startups like

OpenAI, Databricks, and Andoril. Now his brother and President Donald Trump's son-in-law,

Jared Kushner, is getting in on the act by co-founding his own AI startup.

Kushner has teamed up with tech investor Eliad Gill and Luis Vigarai, the former Mexican

foreign minister, to co-found Brainco, which helps big corporations and governments use AI

to improve their operations.

The firm announced in early September that it had emerged from stealth and raised $30 million

in its Series A funding round, led by Kushner's

private equity firm, Affinity Partners, and Gill's Gill Capital.

It's also backed by billionaire angel investors, like Coinbase's CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong,

Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Palo Alto Networks chairman and CEO, Nikesh Aurora.

BrainCo, which was founded in 2024, has around 40 employees and a strategic partnership with OpenAI to build applications for its customers, which include 10 of the largest public companies in the

world, per Forbes's Global 2000 list.

The San Francisco-based startup has already won deals with companies like Auction House Sotheby's,

owned by billionaire Patrick Drahi, and private equity giant Warburg-Pinkus, as well as various

government institutions, energy

providers, health care systems, hotels, and restaurant chains. Besides OpenAI, the firm is also

working on partnerships with other AI labs to use their foundational models. This, according to what

Gill and CEO Clemens Maywald, told Forbes in an interview.

Many companies and industries are clearly overwhelmed by rapid advancements in artificial

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