Since its establishment in 2021, the Openai Startup Fund has raised $ 175 million for its main fund and has provided an additional $ 114 million through five vehicles with special goals, which are investment pools for specific opportunities.
Unlike many significant technology companies, Openai says he does not use the company’s money to invest in Startup. Chatgpt manufacturer says his Openai start fund has been increased by external investors. This includes participation by the important supporter of Openai Microsoft, as well as “other Openai partners”, according to the Fund website.
The Openai Start Fund, which is managed by a dedicated team, has so far invested in an initial dozen, according to PitchBook data providers and Crunchbase and Techcrunch research.
The following companies, organized alphabetical, have themselves announced investments from the fund.
1x: This human Norwegian robot startup collected $ 23.5 million in an agreement led by the OpenAi and Tiger Global startup fund in early 2023. However, Openai’s fund was not appointed to the company when it announced its $ 100m series in January in January.
Environmental health care: This beginner of taking medical records with him announced a $ 70 million series in February 2024, led by the Openai and Kleiner Perkins fund. The environment is among an initial number, including Abridge, Nabla, Suki and Microsoft nuance, which are building a medical scribble.
Anysphere (aka cursor): In October 2023, the Openai fund led the 8 million dollars seed round to Anysphere, the manufacturer of the AI-power coding assistant. Openai has not been appointed as an investor in the subsequent rounds of the company.
Discovery Chai: This startup, which is developing a fundamental model of the open -sourced drug detection, collected a $ 30 million round led by Thrive Capital and the Opennai fund last September. The deal estimated the 6-month discovery Chai in $ 150 million.
Classmate: This beginning Edtech raised a $ 4 million seed round in 2023 from the Openai fund and a host of angels. Helps teachers give quick, personalized reactions to their students.
Description: The cooperative audio and video editing platform collected $ 50 million in a series C round led by Opennai Fund shortly after the Chatgt was introduced to the world in late 2022. Other investors in the round included Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital, and former combiner Daniel Gross. The description has not reported any other capital increase since its series C.
Figure he: The figure of the start of robotics he raised a $ 675 million series of February 2024 from Nvidia, Openai fund, Microsoft, and others. The round praised the company with $ 2.6 billion. The figure is now reported to be in talks to raise $ 1.5 billion in a $ 39.5 billion rating.
Ghost’s autonomy: This autonomous manufacturer manufacturer raised a series of $ 55 million in April 2023, and the OpenAi fund invested $ 5 million, according to PitchBook data. But the investment did not work. A year later the company closed.
Harvey he: This start of legal technology raised a $ 21 million series in April 2023 from the Openai fund and others. The fund also participated in three later rounds, including last month’s D series last month, which rated Harvey by $ 3 billion.
Singing: He Chatbot for Kids Heeyo announced that she gathered $ 3.5 million from OpenAi’s fund, Alexa Fund, VC and other investors in August.
Kick This company is developing agents that it says they can “self-direct” accounting processes. It raised a 9 million dollar seed of co-guided by General Catalyst and Openai’s fund in October.
Mem: This start of taking notes with he raised a $ 23.5 million round round in November 2022, led by the Openai fund. MEM has not reported any subsequent round of funding.
Milo: This start is developing a personal assistant empowered by him who helps parents organize and trace their children’s activities. Milo raised an undetected amount of funds before and seeds from the Openai, YC, and others fund.
Physical intelligence: The basic software for the start of robots Physical intelligence raised a $ 70 million round last March. Openai’s fund was part of this and also participated in Serie A of the $ 400 million of the company that valued the company in more than $ 2 billion. Other investors in the last round included Lux Capital, Sequoia and Jeff Bezos.
Talk: This developer of the Language Language Application, with power, raised a B 27 million round B $ in November 2022, led by the Openai Fund. In December, the fund participated in the 78 million Speak C series, which rated the company at $ 1 billion.
It blooms: The founder of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington and the Openai start fund announced last July that they joined the investment and construction of this “Health Coach” start. Flowering he intended to raise $ 10 million, according to a regulatory appearance.
Unify: This start of sales technology provided about $ 19 million in the Capital of Seed and Serie A from OpenAi starting fund, Thrive Capital and Emergency.
