OpenAI

Founded
2015
Current Stage
Series F
Partnered Since
Series F
Valuation
$300B
Domain
Featured
AI
Regions
EMEA
North America
Investors
Sequoia Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
Thrive Capital

Summary

OpenAI is a leading AI research and deployment company focused on developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to benefit humanity. It powers cutting-edge models like GPT-4o and the o1 reasoning series, enabling enterprises and individuals to use AI across domains from autonomous reasoning to visual data generation. As of 2025, OpenAI has grown to over 2,000 employees across multiple global offices. It boasts 400M weekly active users and 2M paying enterprise customers. In a major financing round, OpenAI secured $8.3B at a $300B valuation. Its structure blends a non-profit mission with a capped-profit model aimed at sustainable research and development.

Our Partnership

Partnering with OpenAI at a pivotal stage of global expansion, we have been working closely with the leadership team to support the establishment of its executive leadership in Europe. Our collaboration has focused on building the capabilities required to anchor OpenAI’s mission and culture in new markets, ensuring the organisation has the depth of expertise needed to scale responsibly while maintaining its research-first ethos. By strengthening executive capacity across Europe, our partnership is helping OpenAI accelerate its international growth, extend the impact of its technology, and reinforce its position as the category-defining leader in artificial intelligence.

Key activities

Key Activities

Valuable outcomes

400M

Active users

2M

Paying enterprise customers

2K

Employees distributed across San Francisco, London, Dublin, Tokyo, Seattle, Washington D.C., Singapore, Paris and Brussels