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About John Schulman

John Schulman is an entrepreneur and an angel investor. Their journey in the startup ecosystem started in 2015 through OpenAI. John Schulman has founded 4 companies. They are currently acting as the, and as the co-founder of ChatGPT, Sora AI and ChatGPT LOGO. Prior to this, John Schulman co-founded OpenAI. As an angel investor, John Schulman has a portfolio of 2 companies, focusing primarily on sectors like High Tech, Enterprise Applications and 1 more sector. They invest in companies across United States. Their most notable investments are Prime Intellect and Supermaven.
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John Schulman's Investments

John Schulman has invested in 2 companies. Their most recent investment was in Prime Intellect (Series A Round) on Dec 01, 2025. Their investments are primarily in High Tech, Enterprise Applications and 1 more sector. Their investment portfolio companies are located in United States.
Here are the details of all recent investments by John Schulman:
Date
Company
Round
Round Amount
Co-Investors
Dec 01, 2025
Series A
$130M
Sep 16, 2024
Series A
$12M
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John Schulman's Portfolio Exits

John Schulman has 1 Portfolio Exit which is Supermaven.
Here is the detail of this portfolio exit:
Company
Description
Location
Total Funding
Founded Year
Exit Type
Exit Date
AI powered coding assistant for developers
San Francisco (United States)
$12M
2014
Acquisition
Nov 13, 2024
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John Schulman's Portfolio Unicorns

John Schulman has 1 unicorn in the portfolio which is Prime Intellect.
Here is the detail of this portfolio unicorn:
Company
Short Description
Total Funding
Founded Year
Current Stage
Location
Provider of compute and infrastructure platform for agentic model development
$150M
2023
Series A
San Francisco
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John Schulman's Founded Companies

John Schulman has founded 4 companies including OpenAI, ChatGPT and Sora AI.
Here is the list of top founded companies by John Schulman:
Company
Short Description
Total Funding
Founded Year
Current Stage
Location
Artificial intelligence research and development platform offering advanced language models
$180B
2015
Series F
San Francisco
Generative AI based chatbot
-
2022
Unfunded
San Francisco
AI-powered text-to-video generation platform
-
2024
Unfunded
San Francisco
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