OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has transferred formal management of the eponymously agency’s named company enterprise fund to Ian Hathaway, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.
The OpenAI Startup Fund, launched in 2021, was initially arrange with Altman as its named controller. The association may have introduced a significant problem to the corporate if he had not been reinstated as OpenAI’s CEO following his temporary ouster in November. The fund’s preliminary GP construction was meant as a short lived association, and Altman made no private funding, nor did he have any monetary curiosity, a spokesperson defined.
The information was earlier reported by Axios.
Hathaway joined OpenAI in 2021 and performed a key position managing the Startup Fund, main investments in Atmosphere Healthcare, Cursor, Harvey and Communicate. He was beforehand an investor with Haystack, in accordance with his LinkedIn profile.
Final yr, the fund had $175 million in commitments, and now holds $325 million in gross web asset worth, in accordance with an SEC filing. Buyers included Microsoft and different exterior backers. The unit invests in early-stage AI-driven corporations in fields like healthcare, legislation and training.
The Startup Fund has backed no less than 16 different startups, in accordance with PitchBook information. They embrace Descript, a collaborative enhancing platform valued at $553 million final yr, and Ghost Autonomy, which develops software program for autonomous driving.
