OpenAI

AI / Machine Learning · San Francisco, United States · #3 globally

2.08%
Spawner rate
25
Funded founders
1,201
Alumni tracked
$142.8B
Capital raised by spawns

Founder DNA

Sectors spawned founders go on to build in

Over-indexed on AI / Machine Learning. Founders spawned from OpenAI pick it 3.4× more often than the global founder population.

AI / Machine Learning
3.4×
Manufacturing / Industrial
3.1×
Media / Entertainment
1.9×
Cybersecurity
1.5×
Enterprise Software
0.3×

← under · 1× market average · over →

The OpenAI network

Where the founders came from, when spawns were founded, and how much they have raised since

2020202120222023202420252026OpenAIAnthropic$129.8BSSI Inc.$9.0BThinking Machines Lab$3.0BPeriodic Labs$500MApplied Compute$163MCore Automation$100MDust$62MComand AI$49MDaedalus$45MFounded → ( larger = more raised since )

Spawned companies

CompanyFounders from OpenAIRaised
Anthropic
Daniela Amodei(2020)Dario Amodei(2020)Jack Clark(2020)Sam McCandlish(2020)Tom Brown(2020)
$129.8B
SSI Inc.
Daniel Levy(2024)
$9.0B
Thinking Machines Lab
Lilian Weng(2024)Phuong Nga Nguyen(2024)
$3.0B
Periodic Labs
Liam Fedus(2025)William (Liam) Fedus(2025)
$500M
Applied Compute
Linden Li(2025)Rhythm Garg(2025)Yash Patil(2025)
$163M
Core Automation
Francis Z(2026)Joanne Jang(2026)Julia Villagra(2026)
$100M
Dust
Stanislas Polu(2022)
$62M
Comand AI
Marie I(2024)
$49M
Daedalus
Jonas Schneider(2019)
$45M
RunSybil
Ariel Herbert-Voss(2022)
$40M
Math, Inc.
Jesse Han(2022)
$15M
Worktrace AI
Angela Jiang(2024)
$10M
Synthefy
Shawn Jain(2023)
$6M
Morph Labs
Jesse Han(2022)
$6M
Refact.ai
Oleg Klimov(2021)
$2M