OpenAI, the scaleup that developed ChatGPT, secured a 122 billion US Dollars round for a post-money value of 852 billion (press release). In February 2026, raised a 110 billion tranche of this round on the ground of a pre-money value of 730 billion US Dollars (press release). Amazon (50 billion), NVIDIA (30 billion), SoftBank (30 billion), Microsoft così come a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, and T. Rowe Price Associates poured resources in OpenAI. The investors pool also included Altimeter, Appaloosa LP, ARK Invest, fondi affiliati a BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Dragoneer, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Goanna Capital, Insight Partners, The Paragon Group, Sands Capital, Sequoia Capital, Sound Ventures, Temasek, Thrive Capital, UC Investments, and Winslow Capital. Retail investors poured 3 billion through banking channels.
OpenAI also said that JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Mizuho, Royal Bank of Canada, SMBC, UBS, HSBC, and Santander extended to 4.7 billion US Dollars a previous revolving credit line that previously provided. The company has not yet used such resources.
OpenAI said that in 2024 it generated quarterly sales of one billion while the current monthly turnover amounts to 2 billion. “At this stage, our revenue growth is four times faster than that of the companies that defined the internet and mobile eras, including Alphabet and Meta. OpenAI also became part of the portfolio of ARK Invest Exchange Traded Funds. This strategy further expands the shareholder base and offers more people the opportunity to benefit from the economic returns associated with OpenAI and the AI era.
In 1Q25, OpenAI secured a 40 billion US Dollars round that includes a 10 billion syndicated facility from its investor Softbank on the ground of a pre-money value of 260 billion and post-money 300 billion (OpenAI and Softbank) (see here a previous post by BeBeez) that after a secondary market deal in August 2025 rose to 500 billion (CNBC).
Reuters reported that Microsoft, Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital, and Thrive Capital co-invested with the Japanese banking giant.
OpenAI received a first 10 billion tranche in April 2025 and up to 30 billion by December 2025. However, the company committed to turn into a for-profit business by the end of 2025 for securing all such resources, otherwise Softbank will pour up to 20 billion including a syndicated facility of 10 billion.
OpenAI Corporate Structure
OpenAI was born in 2015 as a non-profit firm for AI research and now controls the for-profit arm of the business since 2019 (company milestones).
Previous press reports speculated that the company’s post-money value could amount to 340 billion (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In October 2024, OpenAI raised 6.6 billion US Dollars for a 157 billion post-money value from Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Microsoft, Nvidia, Altimeter Capital, Fidelity, SoftBank, and Abu Dhabi’s MGX.
Softbank said that before this last round it invested a total of 2.2 billion in OpenAI through SoftBank Vision Fund 2. In January 2025, Oracle, Softbank and OpenAI signed the 500 billion partnership for Stargate Project which received the endorsement of the Donald Trump administration (see here a previous post by BeBeez)
