OpenAI

AI / ML · San Francisco, CA · Late

$13.3B raised

Trust

IPO Ready

Momentum

IPO Readiness Assessment

34%

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CFO Hired+15pts

No CFO identified

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General Counsel+10pts

No GC identified

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VP Sales / CRO+10pts

No sales leadership identified

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Patent Portfolio+8pts

Active patent filings

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Government Contracts+7pts

Government revenue stream

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Late-Stage Funding+15pts

Stage: late

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Significant Capital+12pts

$13300M raised

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Hiring Acceleration+8pts

Normal hiring pace

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Team Depth+8pts

Limited team visibility

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Recent Fundraise+7pts

Recent funding round detected

Investor Quality

25%

Avg IPO Rate

a16z

Coinbase, Instacart, Okta

28%

IPO rate

Lux Capital

Desktop Metal, Shapeways

15%

IPO rate

Tiger Global

JD.com, Spotify, Roblox

31%

IPO rate

Growth

Executive Team

1 tracked

Sam Altman

founder

CEO

score

Talent Sources

Where this team came from — who they stole from

OpenAI

elite

Sam Altman

1hires

Strategic Backers

SEC Verified

High-trust data source

Public companies with strategic investments in OpenAI — sourced from SEC filings and verified disclosures.

Microsoft

CEO: Satya Nadella

$13.0B10-K Disclosure

Multi-round Strategic · Jan 2023

Exclusive cloud provider and API partner for GPT models. Azure OpenAI Service creates massive enterprise moat and locks in cloud migration.

Azure cloud revenue accelerationEnterprise AI platform lock-inCopilot product integration across Office suite

Signal History

12 signals

OpenAI and Anthropic co-publish AI safety evaluation framework

Published on arXiv. Joint authorship by both labs. Endorsed by AI safety community.

arXiv · verified

confidence

high

OpenAI files patent for reasoning architecture with verifiable chain-of-thought

USPTO filing #US2026/0198432. Inventors include Mark Chen, Jakub Pachocki.

USPTO · official

confidence

high

OpenAI hiring 30 policy and safety researchers

30 new policy and safety roles on official careers page.

openai.com/careers · official

confidence

medium

OpenAI publishes GPT-5 technical report

Published on arXiv. Official OpenAI authorship. Widely cited within hours.

arXiv · verified

confidence

medium

OpenAI launches GPT-5 with real-time capabilities

Official OpenAI blog. Product live in ChatGPT and API. Sam Altman keynote announcement.

openai.com · official

confidence

high

OpenAI open-sources Whisper v4 with real-time streaming

Official OpenAI GitHub. 5,200 stars in 24 hours. Streaming API documented.

GitHub · official

confidence

low

Mira Murati registers new AI company domain

WHOIS record matches Murati's known registrar. Two ex-OpenAI engineers updated LinkedIn to 'Stealth'.

WHOIS + LinkedIn · unknown

confidence

medium

EU AI Act compliance deadline forces OpenAI model documentation

Official compliance documentation published. EU AI Office confirmation.

openai.com · official

confidence

medium

OpenAI closes $6.6B funding round at $157B valuation

WSJ exclusive. SEC Form D filing matches. Confirmed by OpenAI blog post.

Wall Street Journal · news

confidence

high

Mira Murati departs OpenAI as CTO

The Information exclusive. Confirmed by OpenAI internal memo. Murati posted on X.

The Information · news

confidence

high

Sam Altman hints at AGI timeline in blog post

Personal blog post. Widely shared and debated. 5M+ reads.

blog.samaltman.com · social

confidence

low

Ilya Sutskever departs OpenAI, co-founds SSI

Confirmed by both OpenAI and SSI press releases. Multiple news outlets confirmed.

TechCrunch · news

confidence

high