OpenAI - About the company
OpenAI is a series F company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2015 by John Schulman, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Wojciech Zaremba, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Pamela Vagata, Ilya Sutskever, Vicki Cheung, Elon Musk and Sam Altman. It operates as an Artificial intelligence research and development platform offering advanced language models. OpenAI has raised $180B in funding from investors like Microsoft, SoftBank Group and Thrive Capital, with a current valuation of $852B. The company has 171 active competitors, including 48 funded and 5 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Anthropic, Mistral AI 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
Artificial intelligence research and development platform offering advanced language models. It enables businesses and individuals to build and integrate AI capabilities into their applications and services. It is a technology company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence models, including the popular ChatGPT, which enables users to interact with AI-powered conversational interfaces. The company's research focuses on achieving artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve complex human-level problems, while prioritizing safety and benefits. It provides its AI models through an API platform, enabling developers to integrate AI capabilities into their applications.
- Website
- openai.com
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- Email ID
- *****@openai.com
- Registered Address
- 1455 3rd Street San Francisco, CA 94158
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2015
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Series F
Total Funding
$180B in 14 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$852B as on Apr 18, 2026
Ranked
1st among 171 active competitors
Employee Count
11,056 as on Aug 31, 2026
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 14 rounds. Its first funding round was on Dec 2015. Its latest funding round was a Series F round on Apr 22, 2026 for $75M. 1 investor participated in its latest round. OpenAI has 88 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 F | $852B | - | - | |
Mar 20, 2026 | $40M | Series F | - | - | - | - |
Feb 27, 2026 | $122B | Series F | $730B | - | Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Altimeter Capital, Appaloosa Management, ARK Investment Management, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, The D. E. Shaw Group, MGX, TPG, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, Fidelity Investments, Goanna Capital, Insight Partners, Sands Capital, Sound Ventures, Temasek, UC Investments, Winslow Capital |
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OpenAI's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of OpenAI are John Schulman, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Wojciech Zaremba, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Pamela Vagata, Ilya Sutskever, Vicki Cheung, Elon Musk and Sam Altman. Sam Altman is the CEO 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 2 startups.Contact Info: 1 email address
- Greg Brockman: Co-Foudner & President & Chairman of OpenAI. They are also an angel investor in 20 startups.
- Trevor Blackwell: Former Co-Founder of OpenAI and founder of 1 other company. They are also an angel investor in 5 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 2 startups.Contact Info: 1 email address
- Andrej Karpathy: Former Co-Founder of OpenAI. They are also an angel investor in 2 startups.
OpenAI's Board of Directors
OpenAI's board has 8 active members. Paul Nakasone, Adebayo Ogunlesi, Zico Kolter, Nicole Seligman, Sam Altman, Adam D'Angelo, Lawrence Summers and Sue Desmond-Hellmann are part of team.Here is the list of OpenAI's board of directors:
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OpenAI's employee count trend
OpenAI has 11,056 employees as of Aug 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 Anthropic, Mistral AI 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 F | Artificial intelligence research and development platform offering advanced language models | $180B | 89/100 | |
2nd | Anthropic 2021, San Francisco (United States), Series H | Provider of AI safety and research company | $132B | 83/100 | |
3rd | Mistral AI 2023, Paris (France), Series D | Provider of customizable, open-source artificial intelligence models and solutions for various applications | $6.54B | 78/100 | |
4th | Developer of enterprise AI platform and multilingual language and retrieval models | $1.54B | 78/100 | ||
5th | Provider of AI research laboratory services | $379M | 71/100 | ||
6th | Provider of AI cloud infrastructure, foundational models, and applications | $74.9M | 68/100 | ||
7th | Open source based AI assistant for enterprises | $4.4B | 68/100 | ||
8th | AI powered code generation tool for developers | $1.4B | 67/100 | ||
9th | Aleph Alpha 2019, Heidelberg (Germany), Acquired | Provider of an AI-enabled text and image analytics platform | $533M | 66/100 | |
10th | Platform offering AI focused writing and reading assistants | $636M | 66/100 |
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OpenAI's Investments and acquisitions
OpenAI has made 29 investments in companies including American Journalism Project and Chai Discovery. OpenAI has also acquired 21 companies including Glass and NextSlide.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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Sep 15, 2026 | Acquisition | 2019 | Los Altos (United States) | |
Aug 08, 2026 | Acquisition | San Francisco (United States) | ||
Jul 22, 2026 | Investments | 2019 | Washington, DC (United States) |
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Reports related to OpenAI
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News related to OpenAI
Filter this listMedia has covered OpenAI for a total of 2289 events in the last 1 year, 1268 of them have been about company updates and 300 about partnerships.
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Yelp and Hatch Integrate OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 for Advanced Voice AI in Service BusinessesDestinationcrm•Sep 14, 2026•Yelp, Hatch, OpenAI
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Revolut Partners with OpenAI to Integrate ChatGPT Go into Paid PlansThe Fintech Times•Sep 14, 2026•OpenAI, Revolut
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SoftBank Secures $11.87 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Amid Stock PlungeTechStartups.com•Sep 14, 2026•OpenAI
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OpenAI in talks with Samsung Foundry for AI chip productionDonanimhaber•Sep 11, 2026•OpenAI, Samsung
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services IndustryMoneycontrol•Sep 11, 2026•OpenAI, Intapp, Evercore, Morgan Stanley
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OpenAI Pauses Pro Subscriptions Due to High Demand for New Astra ModelTechCrunch+•Sep 11, 2026•OpenAI
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