Sam Altman is the CEO & Co-Founder at OpenAI, based in United States, North America. With a background in Software, Sam Altman has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Sam Altman studied B.S.  Computer Science (Dropped out) @ Stanford University. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.

Optimizely develops web content management and digital experience software. Their application combines content, commerce, multi-channel marketing, and predictive analytics in a single platform to work full circle for businesses, providing capabilities such as intelligent optimization, lead generation, web product recommendations, conversion, and repeat business with unprecedented ease of use for clients.

Optimizely

Custora is the leader in advanced customer analytics for the retail industry. Our Customer Intelligence Platform empowers marketing leaders with the insightful guidance they need to deliver results today while maximizing profitable growth over the long term. The Custora platform assembles a clear view of each customer, uses predictive analytics to identify the most important customer segments and journeys, and provides prescriptive recommendations to grow customer lifetime value – all in a way that recognizes the constraints that marketing leadership faces on a daily basis.

Custora

Codecademy is a free web and mobile-based platform that teaches employable digital skills to millions of users worldwide. Through its platforms, learners discover concepts such as HTML/CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Python, Ruby, PHP, and APIs by actually building things and getting constant feedback from peers. Codecademy is an entirely new, networked approach to learning in which you interact with students across the globe, build amazing projects.

Codecademy

PlanGrid provides a cloud-based construction document collaboration platform that allows plans, markups, photos, and reports to be instantaneously shared with everyone on a construction project. Its platform lets contractors and architects collaborate from their desktop or mobile devices across all their project plans, specifications, photos, RFIs, and punchlists. 

Major construction firms use the platform of PlanGrid. Kenny Stone, Ralph Gootee, Ryan Sutton-Gee,  and Tracy Young founded Loupe in 2011 that later became PlanGrid, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

PlanGrid

Couple is an app just for the two of you. It helps you stay connected, and feel close to each other. Whether it's texting, sharing videos, photos, sketching together and more, Couple let's your partner know that you're thinking about them.

Couple was part of the YCombinator W2012 batch, and was formerly named Pair until they renamed to Couple on January 31st, 2013.

Couple

Exec is a house cleaning service that users can book from their iPhone or the web. They offer services in San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Chicago, and Washington DC with plans to expand to other cities in the U.S.

Exec

Virool was acquired by Turgo in October 2017. In its history, Virool has raised over $20M from renowned investors including Y-Combinator, Draper Fisher Juvertson, Menlo Ventures, 500 Startups and Yahoo! Japan. 

More than 30,000 global advertisers used Virool platform to promote their video messages, engage their audience and elevate their brand. More than 100,000 online and mobile publisher properties have run video content from Virool via programmatic partnerships, native placements and direct integrations. Virool was trusted by some of the biggest brands in the world including Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Disney, Sony, Anheuser-Busch, Turkish Airlines, Intel, and Levi's. 

Virool was founded in 2012 and raised $6.62M in seed funding from a collection of top VC firms and angel investors. It was the biggest seed investment that any Y-Combinator graduate has ever received.

Virool

Swiftype is a provider of SaaS-based site and enterprise search platform used to fully customize the search experience on websites. The company's suite of products, Site Search and Enterprise Search, have revolutionized the way people find information across their organization and on public facing websites. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company has raised $23 million in funding, from investors including NEA and Y Combinator. Its strong customer portfolio includes AT&T, Shopify, SurveyMonkey, Dr. Pepper, publishers Engadget and TechCrunch, and brands like Qualcomm, Asana, Marketo, and Hubspot.

Swiftype

Heap automates away the annoying parts of analytics so that companies can focus on making smarter business decisions. The company's mission is to power business decisions with truth. It encourages companies to focus on discovering insights and taking action. With Heap, organizations can remove technical jams and obtain a single comprehensive view of the customers. The software automatically gathers, organizes, analyzes, and connects customer data, so businesses can create more valuable products and experiences. Heap serves over 6,000 companies in ecommerce, SaaS, fintech, retail, media, and beyond including Twilio, LendingClub, App Annie, Optimizely, Morningstar, Monotype, and Casper. 

Heap was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Heap

Oyster is a subscription service for ebooks and ebook retailer. Oyster also publishes the Oyster Review, an editorial magazine.

Oyster was founded by Eric Stromberg, Andrew Brown, and Willem Van Lancker in 2012 and is based in New York, the United States.

Oyster

In today's environment, everyone shops online, typically for convenience. The problem? Failed parcel deliveries - being able to actually receive the purchases when they are delivered.

BufferBox has developed an automated, self-serve kiosk to eliminate the frustrations and hassle involved with failed parcel deliveries. BufferBox has successfully deployed our first kiosk that allows for 24/7 pick-up of parcels at a convenient location.

The kiosk supplies the user with a unique BufferBox address to have their parcel delivered to. Upon its arrival, the user is emailed a unique, one-time-use PIN code for the kiosk to retrieve their parcel on their schedule. The BufferBox service restores the convenience of online shopping.

BufferBox

URX empowers publishers to monetize mobile content and enables advertisers to drive mobile commerce. The world's most forward-thinking companies use URX to connect users directly to relevant commerce experiences.

Nervana focuses on building technology to power the next generation of intelligent applications. Founded by experts in machine learning, neuroscience, processor architecture, and chip design, Nervana Systems is bringing unprecedented scale and simplicity to the application of brain-inspired algorithms. 

It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

Nervana

Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives.

Asana

Kimono is a way to turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds. You don't need to write any code or install any software to extract data with Kimono. The easiest way to use Kimono is to add our bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar. Then go to the website you want to get data from and click the bookmarklet. Select the data you want and Kimono does the rest.

Kimono Labs

Nautilus Labs is a technology partner that provides decarbonization of the ocean supply chain. They work across data availability and structures they apply machine learning to unlock predictive decision-making for fleet efficiency. Their solutions are built on clients’ workflows and are accompanied by human-centric change management programs to drive organizational adoption.

Nautilus Labs

Sendwave is an app-based remittance company with the mission of making sending money cross-borders as easy as sending a text. The app sends instant, no fee transfers from the US, UK, and Canada to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria with top rates.

Sendwave

ZeroDown is a real estate startup that focuses on providing an affordable homeownership solution. It is an alternative to the rent-or-own dilemma, offering the benefits of homeownership with the flexibility of renting.

It was founded in 2018 by Abhijeet Dwivedi (Previously COO and CSO at Zenefits, McKinsey), Hari Viswanathan (Previously Staff Engineer at Zenefits) and Laks Srini (Previously Co-founder and CTO at Zenefits, SigFig and D. E. Shaw & Co). The three founders worked together at Zenefits -- which processes $2B+ a year in payroll for SMBs, provides access to healthcare and insurance for 100,000+ employees and serves more than 10,000 SMBs.

ZeroDown

Presto overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. Presto’s enterprise-grade voice, vision, and touch technologies help hospitality businesses thrive while delighting guests. With over 250,000 systems shipped, Presto is one of the largest labor automation technology providers in the industry. Founded at M.I.T. in 2008, Presto is headquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif. with customers including many of the top 20 restaurant chains in the U.S.

Presto

ANA Therapeutics is a developer of a novel coronavirus vaccine intended to save human lives. It is developing therapeutics to solve the coronavirus pandemic using Niclosamide that enables medical practitioners to treat patients suffering from COVID-19.

It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Foster City, California.

ANA Therapeutics

Quill is a computer software company that provides a messaging software built for productivity, not engagement.

The company is a team of engineers and designers who previously helped build and launch Stripe, Square, and OpenAI. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Quill

Sam Altman

San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
Apr 22, 2024	Exowatt	Seed Round - Exowatt	20.0M
Apr 24, 2024	Airchat	Funding Round - Airchat	0
May 02, 2024	APEX	Seed Round - APEX	7.0M
Jun 17, 2024	ValueBase	Seed Round - ValueBase	6.3M

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Investor Name	Money Raised
Feb 01, 2023	ValueBase	Pre Seed Round - ValueBase	Hydrazine Capital	1.6M
Aug 24, 2023	ExcepGen	Seed Round - ExcepGen	Apollo Projects	4.0M
Dec 15, 2023	Shelpful	Seed Round - Shelpful	Apollo Projects	3.0M
Jul 17, 2024	Slope	Venture Round - Slope	Y Combinator	15.0M

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Sam Altman has made 104 investments. Their Latest investment was Seed Round - ValueBase on Jun 17, 2024

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