OpenAI - About the company
OpenAI is a series G company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2015 by John Schulman, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Durk Kingma, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Trevor Blackwell, Elon Musk and Vicki Cheung. It operates as a Developer of artificial intelligence models tools and research-driven platforms. OpenAI has raised $180B in funding from investors like Microsoft, Thrive Capital and MIS, with a current valuation of $730B. The company has 150 active competitors, including 43 funded and 6 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Mistral AI, Anthropic and Cohere.
Sectors and market segments that OpenAI operate in
OpenAI serves in the High Tech, Native AI market segments.The primary business model of OpenAI are:Company Details
Developer of artificial intelligence models tools and research-driven platforms. The company conducts AI research and deploys large-scale models for language, vision, audio and multimodal tasks, with the goal of creating artificial general intelligence that benefits humanity. Its portfolio includes generative models such as the GPT series for text, multimodal interaction systems, and other APIs and applications that developers and enterprises integrate into products, workflows and services.
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Founded Year
2015
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Series G
Total Funding
$180B in 13 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$730B as on Feb 27, 2026
Ranked
1st among 150 active competitors
Employee Count
7,708 as on Mar 31, 2026
Investment & Acquisitions
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Legal entities associated with OpenAI
OpenAI is associated with 1 legal entity given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
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Openai Opco, Llc CIN: 831960637 , United States, Active | Sep 18, 2018 | - | 2063 (As on Dec 31, 2024) | - |
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OpenAI's funding and investors
OpenAI has raised a total funding of $180B over 13 rounds. Its first funding round was on Dec 2015. Its latest funding round was a Series G round on Apr 22, 2026 for $75M. 1 investor participated in its latest round. OpenAI has 65 institutional investors and 5 angel investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of OpenAI:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Apr 22, 2026 | $75M | Series G | - | - | - | |
Mar 20, 2026 | $40M | Series G | - | - | - | - |
Feb 27, 2026 | $122B | Series G | $730B | - | - |
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OpenAI's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of OpenAI are John Schulman, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Durk Kingma, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Trevor Blackwell, Elon Musk and Vicki Cheung. Sam Altman and Fidji Simo are the CEOs of OpenAI.
Here are the details of OpenAI's key team members:
- John Schulman: Former Co-Founder of OpenAI and founder of 3 other companies, ChatGPT LOGO, Sora AI and ChatGPT. They are also an angel investor in 1 startup.Contact Info: 1 email address
- Greg Brockman: Co-Founder & President & Chairman of OpenAI. They are also an angel investor in 21 startups.Contact Info: 1 email address
- Wojciech Zaremba: Co-Founder of OpenAI and founder of 3 other companies, ChatGPT LOGO, Sora AI and ChatGPT. They are also an angel investor in 1 startup.Contact Info: 1 email address
- Durk Kingma: Former Co-Founder of OpenAI and founder of 1 other company. They are also an angel investor in 1 startup.Contact Info: 1 email address
- Sam Altman: Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI and founder of 1 other company. Contact Info: 2 email addresses
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OpenAI's employee count trend
OpenAI has 7,708 employees as of Mar 26. Here is OpenAI's employee count trend over the years:
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OpenAI's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of OpenAI include Mistral AI, Anthropic and Cohere. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of OpenAI, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st |  OpenAI 2015, San Francisco (United States), Series G | Developer of artificial intelligence models tools and research-driven platforms | $180B | 89/100 | |
2nd | Mistral AI 2023, Paris (France), Series C | Developer of frontier AI models, assistants, agents, and related services | $3.05B | 83/100 | |
3rd | Anthropic 2021, San Francisco (United States), Series G | Platform offering conversational chatbot and research services | $67.3B | 82/100 | |
4th | Developer of enterprise AI platform and multilingual language and retrieval models | $1.54B | 76/100 | ||
5th | Provider of AI research laboratory services | $379M | 71/100 | ||
6th | xAI 2023, Palo Alto (United States), Acquired | Platform providing AI-powered assistant for image generation and trend analysis | $45B | 71/100 | |
7th | Platform offering AI focused writing and reading assistants | $636M | 66/100 | ||
8th | AI powered code generation tool for developers | $1.4B | 66/100 | ||
9th | ReflectionAI 2025, New York City (United States), Series B | Developer of autonomous coding systems | $2.13B | 65/100 | |
10th | Harmonic 2023, Palo Alto (United States), Series C | Developer of state-of-the-art mathematics AI models | $295M | 64/100 |
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OpenAI's Investments and acquisitions
OpenAI has made 25 investments in companies including Isara and Linux Foundation. OpenAI has also acquired 14 companies including Hiro Finance and Astral.Here is the list of investments & acquisitions:Filter this list
Filter this listDate of Investment/Acquisition | Type | Company Name | Founded Year | Location |
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Apr 13, 2026 | Acquisition | 2024 | San Francisco (United States) | |
Mar 27, 2026 | Investments | 2024 | New York City (United States) | |
Mar 20, 2026 | Acquisition | 2021 | New York City (United States) |
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News related to OpenAI
Filter this listMedia has covered OpenAI for a total of 2227 events in the last 1 year, 1258 of them have been about company updates and 309 about partnerships.
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OpenAI Accelerates AI Phone Development, Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo Predicts Launch in 2027NewMobileLife•May 05, 2026•OpenAI
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OpenAI Co-Founder Discloses $30 Billion Stake, Financial Ties to CEO AltmanBusiness Line•May 05, 2026•OpenAI
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OpenAI and PwC Partner to Integrate Agentic AI into Finance OperationsPYMNTS.com•May 05, 2026•OpenAI, PwC
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OpenAI Releases Symphony: Open-Source System for Autonomous AI Task ManagementNewMobileLife•May 04, 2026•OpenAI
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OpenAI to Expand Cyber Defense Program to Government AgenciesInfosecurity Magazine•May 04, 2026•OpenAI
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Warns Against 'AI Washing' of Layoffs Amid Economic ShiftsLatestly•May 04, 2026•OpenAI
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