Since its foundation in 2021, the Operai start fund has collected $ 175 million for its main fund And assured an additional $ 114 million Through five separate special purpose vehicles, which are investment groups for specific opportunities.
Unlike many considerable technological companies, Operai says does not use the company’s money to invest In startups. The Chatgpt manufacturer says that its OpenAI start fund is collected as external investors. This includes the participation of the important sponsor of Operai Microsoft, as well as “other Operai partners”, according to the website of the Fund.
The Operai Startup fund, which is administered by a dedicated team, has so far invested in more than a dozen new companies, according to Pitchbook and Crunchbase data suppliers and TechCrunch research.
The following companies have announced investments of the Operai Start Fund, organized alphabetically.
1x: This Norwegian humanoid robot startup was raised $ 23.5 million In an agreement led by the Operai and Tiger Global Start Fund in early 2023. However, the OpenAI fund was not appointed participant in the company when it announced its $ 100 million b series In January.
Environmental Health: This startup of medical notes with AI food announced a $ 70 million b series In February 2024, he was co-dried by Operai’s Fund and Kleiner Perkins. The atmosphere is among a series of new companies, including Abridge, Nabla, Suki and Microsoft, Nuance, owned by Microsoft, which are building medical scribes of AI.
Anysphere (also known as cursor): In October 2023, the Openai fund led the $ 8 million seed Ronda in Anysphere, the manufacturer of the coding assistant cursor with AI. Operai has not been appointed investor in the company’s posterior rounds.
Chai Discovery: This startup, which is developing a fundamental open source model of AI for the discovery of drugs, raised a $ 30 million in seeds Ronda directed by Thrive Capital and the Operai fund last September. The agreement valued the 6 -month Discovery Chai at $ 150 million.
Classmate: This Edtech startup raised a $ 4 million seed round in 2023 from the Operai background and a large number of angels. Help teachers provide quick and personalized comments to their students.
Description: The Audio and Video Edition Platform proposed $ 50 million in a round C series Directed by OpenAi’s background shortly after Chatgpt was introduced into the world at the end of 2022. Other investors in the round included Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital and former combining partner Daniel Gross. Description has not reported any other capital increase since its C. series
Figure AI: The robotics start figure of AI raised a $ 675 million B series in February 2024 of NVIDIA, OpenAi’s Fund, Microsoft and others. The round valued the company at $ 2.6 billion. Figure ai is now As reported in conversations raise $ 1.5 billion at an assessment of $ 39.5 billion.
Ghost autonomy: This autonomous driving software manufacturer raised a $ 55 million E series in April 2023, and OpenAi’s fund invested $ 5 million, according to Pitchbook data. But the investment did not work. A year later the Closed company.
Harvey AI: This legal technology startup raised a $ 21 million series In April 2023 of the OpenAI Fund and others. The fund also participated in three subsequent rounds, including the D $ 300 million series last month, which valued Harvey in $ 3 billion.
Heeyo: Educational AI Chatbot for Children Heeyo announced that he raised $ 3.5 million From Operai’s Fund, Alexa Fund, Pear VC and other investors in August.
Kick: This company is developing artificial intelligence agents that says they can “self-lead” accounting processes. He raised a $ 9 million seed Round co-driver by General Catalyst and the OpenAi fund in October.
MEM: This startup of notes with the food of AI raised a $ 23.5 million series A Round in November 2022, directed by the Operai fund. Mem has not reported any subsequent financing rounds.
Milo: This startup is developing a personal assistant with AI that helps parents organize and monitor their children’s activities. Milo raised a Non -revealed quantity of funds prior to seeds and seeds From the bottom of Operai, YC and others.
Physical Intelligence: Fundamental Software for Robots Start of Physical Intelligence raised a $ 70 million seed Round last March. Openai’s fund was part of that and also participated in the $ 400 million series That valued the company in more than $ 2 billion. Other investors in the last round included Lux Capital, Sequoia and Jeff Bezos.
Talk: This Language Learning Applications developer raised a $ 27 million b series Round in November 2022, directed by the Operai fund. In December, the Fund participated in Speak’s Series C of $ 78 millionwhich valued the company at $ 1 billion.
Prosper: The founder of Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington and Operai Startup Fund, announced last July that they joined for Invest and build This startup “AI Health Coach”. Trive ai aimed at raise $ 10 millionAccording to a regulatory presentation.
Unify: This sales technology startup assured $ 19 million in seeds and series to Capital of the Startup Openai Fund, Capital and Emergency Trive.