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OpenAI

Discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence.

San Francisco, CA · New York City, NY · Seattle, WA

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Founded: 2015
Headcount: 1,629
Open roles: 830
Last raised: Secondary Market

LOCATIONS

Where they work

OpenAI offices

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New York City, NY
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA

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FUNDING

Capital raised

Total raised

$200,125,120,000

Investors

Funding rounds

Series Unknown
Robinhood Ventures
$75MApr 22, 2026
Series Unknown
Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, D. E. Shaw, MGX, Nvidia, SoftBank Group, TPG, T. Rowe Price, Thrive Capital, Coatue, Ionut Gaota, Altimeter Capital Management, Sequoia Capital, BlackRock, Blackstone, blisce
$122BFeb 27, 2026
Secondary Market
Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, T. Rowe Price, SoftBank Group, NOTBTC
$6.6BOct 1, 2025
Series Unknown
SoftBank Group, Coatue, Microsoft, Altimeter Capital Management, Founders Fund, TPG, Blackstone, Thrive Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Fidelity Investments, Tiger Global Management, T. Rowe Price, Andreessen Horowitz, D1 Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, Gatelanes
$40BMar 30, 2025
Debt Financing
Cushman & Wakefield, Banco Santander, HSBC, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup
$4BOct 2, 2024
Series Unknown
Thrive Capital, Fidelity Investments, Khosla Ventures, Nvidia, Altimeter Capital Management, SoftBank Group, NOTBTC, Microsoft, ARK Venture Fund, Tiger Global Management, Coatue, Futurum Capital, CoreNest Capital, Irving Investors, SGH Capital
$6.6BOct 1, 2024
Secondary Market
Thrive Capital, DataPower Ventures, Thomas Witt, Michael Bassler, Richard Cooperstein
$9.5BFeb 15, 2024
Secondary Market
Andreessen Horowitz, K2 Global, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Wisdom Ventures, SV Angel, Tiger Global Management, Firestreak Ventures, Edelweiss Capital
$300MApr 27, 2023
Corporate Round
Microsoft
$10BJan 9, 2023
Corporate Round
Microsoft, Matthew Brown
$1BJul 22, 2019
Seed
Khosla Ventures, Reid Hoffman Foundation
$50MMar 11, 2019
Pre Seed
Y Combinator
$120KAug 21, 2016

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TECH STACK

How OpenAI builds

Extracted from OpenAI’s job postings we’ve tracked

×N is how many of OpenAI’s open roles mention that technology.

Programming Languages

Python×227 Go×86 JavaScript×68 Rust×61 C++×57 TypeScript×46 Java×14

DevOps & Infrastructure

Docker/Kubernetes×41 Linux×31 Terraform×23

Databases

SQL×59 PostgreSQL×15 Oracle×13

Cloud Platforms

Microsoft Azure×32 Amazon Web Services×31 Google Cloud×16

Frameworks & Libraries

React×21 Metal×11

AI & Machine Learning

PyTorch×14

CRM & Sales Tools

Salesforce×11

OPEN ROLES

Hiring at OpenAI

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LEADERSHIP

Founders & key people

Vicki Cheung

CTO at Gantry

GantryOpenAILyftTrueVaultDuolingoCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityChinese International School

Pamela Vagata

General Partner at pebblebed

pebblebedStripeMeta PlatformsMicrosoftUniversity of WashingtonZillowUniversity of Washington

Durk Kingma

Research scientist

Google DeepMindAnthropicDurk KingmaGoogleOpenAIUniversity of AmsterdamUniversity of AmsterdamUniversiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)SAPIENZA

John Schulman

American computer scientist

AnthropicOpenAIThinking Machines LabUniversity of California BerkeleyUniversity of California BerkeleyUC Berkeley School of InformationCalifornia Institute of Technology

Andrej Karpathy

Slovakian-Canadian AI researcher (born 1986)

Eureka LabsAnthropicTeslaOpenAIStanford UniversityGoogleStanford UniversityUniversity of British Columbia (UBC)University of Toronto

Wojciech Zaremba

Polish mathematician and computer scientist

OpenAIMeta Platforms, Inc.GOOGLEEcole Centrale ParisNvidia CorporationSoftware OperationsNew York UniversityÉcole PolytechniqueUniwersytet WarszawskiVrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Ilya Sutskever

AI researcher

OpenAIGOOGLEDNNResearchStanford UniversityUniversity of TorontoGoogle BrainUniversity of TorontoOpen University of IsraelStanford University

Elon Musk

American business magnate (born 1971)

SpaceXTwitterTeslaNeuralinkPERQUESTeSaverUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Wharton SchoolStanford UniversitySmith School of Business

Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI LP and former president of Y Combinator

AltC AcquisitionGreen DotHydrazine Capital LPExpedia Group, Inc.Bridgetown 2 Holdings LtdStellar Development FoundationStanford UniversityJohn Burroughs School

Greg Brockman

American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer

OpenAIStellar Development FoundationMicrosoftStripeKspliceMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Harvard UniversityRed RiverUniversity of North Dakota

Trevor Blackwell

Canadian programmer

Umbrella ResearchY CombinatorOpenAIAnybotsYahoo Small BusinessYahooHarvard UniversityCarleton University

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