AI research and products company behind ChatGPT.
Around 8,758 people on the team.
OpenAI, the AI research and products company behind ChatGPT, has raised $264500M across 7 rounds and carries a high network centrality score of 81, placing it near the center of the AI funding graph. It is backed by a deep bench of investors including Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Thrive Capital, MGX, T. Rowe Price, Amazon, and Andreessen Horowitz. Through shared capital it connects most closely to other frontier AI and infrastructure companies, sharing 10 investors with Anthropic, 7 with Databricks, and 4 each with xAI, OpenEvidence, and Waymo, with further overlap into Nuro, Wayve, and Revolut. That pattern places OpenAI squarely in the a16z and SoftBank-linked frontier-AI cluster alongside Anthropic, xAI, and Databricks, while its team of 8758 is concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area (10%) and Singapore (10%).
| Date | Round | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | Incoming IPO OpenAI disclosed it has submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC for a future IPO, with timing still undecided; its latest private valuation was around USD 852B. | — |
| Apr 2026 | Growth OpenAI closed a $122B round at an $852B post-money valuation, anchored by Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank with Microsoft and other institutional investors. | $122B |
| Feb 2026 | Growth OpenAI announced a $110 billion round at a $730 billion pre-money valuation: $50 billion from Amazon and $30 billion each from SoftBank and NVIDIA; Thrive Capital contributed a further billion. | $110B |
| Dec 2025 | Funding round Disney is investing $1 billion in equity in OpenAI as part of a three-year licensing deal bringing over 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters to Sora. | $1B |
| Oct 2025 | Funding round OpenAI employees and former employees sold around $6.6 billion of shares to SoftBank, Thrive, Dragoneer, MGX and T. Rowe Price, bringing the valuation to $500 billion. | $6.6B |
| Aug 2025 | Growth OpenAI raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation, an early tranche of the $40 billion plan for 2025, with Dragoneer among the largest subscribers. | $8.3B |
| Oct 2024 | Growth OpenAI raised $6.6B via convertible notes at a $157B post-money valuation, backed by Thrive Capital, Microsoft, NVIDIA and others. | $6.6B |
| Jan 2023 | Growth OpenAI is set to receive a USD10B investment from Microsoft at a reported USD29B valuation. | $10B |
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OpenAI has acquired Statsig.
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