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OpenAI

AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2015 Centicorn

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Valuation
$500B–1T
Latest valuation · Mar/2026
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Revenue
$10–50B
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
5–10k
Current team size
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Featured in Centicorn$100B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Maker of ChatGPT. AI research and deployment focused on AGI and generative models

Investors

28 investors on OpenAI's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage
Y Combinator
Khosla Ventures
Series B+ 26 investors entered at this stage
Microsoft
The Walt Disney Company
D1 Capital Partners
D.E. Shaw Group
ARK Invest
SV Angel
Fidelity Investments
Founders Fund
T. Rowe Price
Anti Fund
Sequoia
The Rise Fund (TPG)
K2 Global
Amazon
SoftBank
TPG
Andreessen Horowitz
Altimeter Capital
Dragoneer Investment Group
Tiger Global
Quiet Capital
MGX
Thrive Capital
Coatue Management
Nvidia
Blackstone

OpenAI mafia

Startups founded by OpenAI alumni

Former OpenAI employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

AnthropicEst. 2021
Jared KaplanUnited States
Signal score97
xAIEst. 2023
Yuhuai (Tony) WuUnited States
Signal score97
PerplexityEst. 2022
Aravind SrinivasUnited States
Signal score96
SierraEst. 2023
Bret TaylorUnited States
Signal score96
CrestaEst. 2017
Tim ShiUnited States
Signal score96
Thinking Machines LabEst. 2024
Lilian WengUnited States
Signal score95
Chai DiscoveryEst. 2024
Joshua MeierUnited States
Signal score95
NeuralinkEst. 2016
Elon MuskUnited States
Signal score93
Safe SuperintelligenceEst. 2024
Daniel LevyUnited States
Signal score93
Periodic LabsEst. 2025
William Liam FedusUnited States
Signal score93
DustEst. 2023
Stanislas PoluFrance
Signal score91
Inflection AIEst. 2022
Reid HoffmanUnited States
Signal score90

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Global footprint

Where OpenAI has talent and traffic

AI talent share
3.6% of workforce is AI talent
(296 of 8,192 staff)
Core AI1551.89%
Other AI1411.72%
Non-AI workforce7,89696.39%
Workforce by country
75 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States80.9%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.9%
🇮🇳 India2%
🇯🇵 Japan1.2%
🇮🇪 Ireland0.9%
Top 5 of 75 shown
Web traffic by country
200M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States19.1%
🇮🇳 India11.1%
🇧🇷 Brazil5%
🇯🇵 Japan4.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.7%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$5M patent portfolio · 69 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$5M
<0.01% of valuation · 2.5× smaller than top peer Anthropic ($12M)
69 active patent families
Where OpenAI innovates Mechanical engineeringVertical planeData scienceComputer engineeringMachine learning

Where OpenAI concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across OpenAI and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

OpenAI's 71 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where OpenAI appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2022–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

71 deals across OpenAI's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        OpenAI's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        71 of 71 deals

        Sentiment on X

        What X is saying about OpenAI

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about OpenAI on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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