OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company focused on developing machine learning technologies that aim to create safe artificial general intelligence for the benefit of all users. The company engages in projects related to autonomous learning and task performance across various industries, including technology, healthcare, and education. OpenAI's platform directs artificial intelligence applications and is involved in policy work, education, and outreach, enabling clients to enhance their skills and knowledge while leveraging autonomous systems that can surpass human performance in economically valuable tasks.

Brad Lightcap

COO

19 past transactions

The Stargate Project

Corporate Round in 2025
The Stargate Project operates as an artificial intelligence(AI) joint venture created by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and investment firm MGX.

Physical Intelligence

Series A in 2024
Physical Intelligence is a company working on integrating general-purpose AI with robotics and physical devices. It develops foundation models and learning algorithms for robots to allow industries to perform tasks across various applications.

Chai Discovery

Seed Round in 2024
Chai Discovery creates Chai-1, a multi-modal foundation model designed for predicting molecular structures relevant to drug discovery. The model facilitates the unified prediction of proteins, small molecules, and nucleic acids, and is available for free for commercial applications. By enabling accurate predictions without the need for multiple sequence alignments, Chai-1 advances the capabilities of molecular modeling in the life sciences.

Anysphere

Series A in 2024
Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans.

Harvey

Series C in 2024
Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider for knowledge workers. It uses AI to answer legal questions and lands cash from OpenAI. The product provides lawyers with a natural language interface for their existing legal workflow. It offers a unified and intuitive interface for all legal workflows, allowing lawyers to describe tasks in plain English instead of using a suite of complex and specialized tools for niche tasks. Harvey was founded in 2022 and is based in Washington, DC.

Co Guard

Grant in 2024
Co Guard is a network security company that offers SBOM, auditing, extended CI/CD, and cyber security services.

Physical Intelligence

Seed Round in 2024
Physical Intelligence is a company working on integrating general-purpose AI with robotics and physical devices. It develops foundation models and learning algorithms for robots to allow industries to perform tasks across various applications.

Figure

Series B in 2024
Figure is an AI robotics company that builds a multi-purpose humanoid form robot. The company has created a humanoid robot with the purpose of being introduced into the workforce to tackle problems such as labor shortages, and undesirable or unsafe jobs, and to assist in global supply chain operations. Figure 01 combines the agility of the human body with advanced AI technology to surpass the capabilities of robots designed for specific tasks. It provides assistance in various sectors including manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail.

Vengo AI

Grant in 2024
Vengo AI is a cutting-edge B2B SaaS platform that democratizes AI creation, making it accessible for everyone, from influencers and brands to entrepreneurs and businesses. Our proprietary system allows users to effortlessly integrate sophisticated AI identities into their websites with just one line of code. By joining our innovative community, members unlock the potential to create, customize, and monetize their digital twins, significantly enhancing their digital presence and generating new streams of passive income. Experience the future of AI with Vengo AI, where technology meets simplicity and profitability.

KudoAI

Grant in 2023
Bringing cutting-edge AI to the masses.

Global Illumination

Acquisition in 2023
Global Illumination is a digital product company based in New York that specializes in developing innovative digital gaming experiences. The company focuses on creating a platform that facilitates multiplayer gaming, allowing users to collect, craft, build, and trade with one another. This interactive environment fosters creativity among players by incorporating blockchain technology, which enables users to engage in unique and rewarding creative endeavors. Through its products, Global Illumination aims to encourage collaboration and creativity within the gaming community.

American Journalism Project

Grant in 2023
The American Journalism Project is the first venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news by investing in and building nonprofit newsrooms that are sustained by and look like the people they serve. We make catalytic investments in nonprofit news organizations, partner with communities to launch new organizations, and coach leaders as they grow and sustain their newsrooms.

Ava

Seed Round in 2023
Ava is an AI dating app.

Oikeus.AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Oikeus.AI is a robust, AI-enhanced platform specifically crafted for legal practitioners, offering a comprehensive range of generative, analytical, and research tools to streamline their work processes.

EdgeDB

Series A in 2022
EdgeDB is an innovative company focused on transforming the relational database landscape. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, it offers an open-source object-relational database platform designed to address common challenges faced by developers and data engineers. By introducing a streamlined data model and a powerful query language, EdgeDB aims to enhance productivity and ease of use, making data management more efficient. The platform enables developers to construct complex queries, subqueries, and nested inserts with a composable syntax that simplifies the representation of selection sets and property assignments. This approach helps mitigate the impedance mismatch often encountered in traditional databases, allowing for the development of safer and more efficient software.

Descript

Series C in 2022
Descript, Inc. is a software company that specializes in audio and video editing and transcription solutions. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, Descript provides a collaborative platform that allows users to edit audio by manipulating text transcriptions, streamlining the content creation process. The software integrates speech recognition technology for efficient transcription of audio and video files, offering both automated and manual options. In addition to transcription, Descript features screen recording, remote recording, and tools for podcasting, overdubbing, and adding subtitles. These capabilities aim to simplify the editing workflow for creators, making it easier for them to produce content for platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and various podcast channels, as well as for business training and marketing purposes.

Optia Systems

Seed Round in 2018
Optia discovers and enacts artificial general intelligence. They engaged in long-term research, working on problems that require us to make fundamental advances in AI capabilities. They publish machine learning conferences, open-source software tools for accelerating AI research, and blog posts to communicate their research.

Sourceress

Seed Round in 2017
Sourceress is an AI recruiter that is reinventing how people find jobs. With tailor-made machine learning models, they rigorously define what a company is looking for in a role, identify great candidates, and engage candidates with highly personalized introductions. Their process creates a stream of interested candidates that hiring managers are excited about more than 85% of the time. Their mission is to accelerate human progress by helping people work in jobs that matter. They raised $3M from Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners and OpenAI researchers.

Io

Io develops AI-powered devices that reimagine how users interact with technology, moving beyond traditional smartphones and screens. In May 2025, OpenAI acquired io in a deal valued at approximately $6.5 billion, marking OpenAI's largest acquisition to date. The acquisition aims to integrate io's hardware design expertise with OpenAI's AI capabilities to create innovative consumer devices. While specific product details remain undisclosed, reports suggest the development of a pocket-sized, screen-free, contextually aware device that is not a phone or wearable glasses.
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