OpenAI - About the company
OpenAI is a series G company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2015 by John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever and Elon Musk. 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 163 active competitors, including 43 funded and 7 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 163 active competitors
Employee Count
8,821 as on Apr 30, 2026
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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 67 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, Wojciech Zaremba, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever and Elon Musk. 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
- 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
- Sam Altman: Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI and founder of 1 other company. Contact Info: 2 email addresses
- Ilya Sutskever: Former Co-Founder of OpenAI and founder of 1 other company. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Elon Musk: Former Co-Founder of OpenAI. Contact Info: 1 email address
OpenAI's Board of Directors
OpenAI's board has 8 active members. Paul Nakasone, Adebayo Ogunlesi, Zico Kolter, Nicole Seligman, Sam Altman, Lawrence Summers, Adam D'Angelo 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 8,821 employees as of Apr 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 | $72.3B | 82/100 | |
4th | Developer of enterprise AI platform and multilingual language and retrieval models | $1.54B | 77/100 | ||
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 | Aleph Alpha 2019, Heidelberg (Germany), Acquired | Provider of an AI-enabled text and image analytics platform | $533M | 66/100 | |
8th | Platform offering AI focused writing and reading assistants | $636M | 66/100 | ||
9th | ReflectionAI 2025, New York City (United States), Series B | Developer of autonomous coding systems | $2.13B | 66/100 | |
10th | AI powered code generation tool for developers | $1.4B | 66/100 |
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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 18 companies including Weights and Tomoro.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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May 15, 2026 | Acquisition | 1995 | San Francisco (United States) | |
May 11, 2026 | Acquisition | 2023 | London (United Kingdom) | |
Apr 13, 2026 | Acquisition | 2024 | San Francisco (United States) |
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News related to OpenAI
Filter this listMedia has covered OpenAI for a total of 2300 events in the last 1 year, 1301 of them have been about company updates and 310 about partnerships.
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OpenAI Partners with Malta to Offer Free ChatGPT Plus Access to All CitizensLatestly•May 17, 2026•OpenAI
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OpenAI enhances ChatGPT app with remote Codex programming capabilitiesNewMobileLife•May 14, 2026•OpenAI
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OpenAI Offers Two Months Free Codex for Businesses to Counter Anthropic's Pricing ChangesNewMobileLife•May 14, 2026•OpenAI
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