Thrive Capital → OpenAI: $6.6B funds & debt
$6.6 billion secondary sale at $500 billion. More than 600 current and former employees sell $6.6 billion of shares to investors (Thrive, SoftBank, Dragoneer, MGX, T. Rowe Price) at a $500 billion valuation; the money goes to the employees, not the company.
This deal is 27% of everything Thrive Capital pays and 4% of everything OpenAI receives in this database.
- Date
- Oct 2, 2025
- Paid by
Thrive Capital- Received by
OpenAI- Type
- Funds & debt
- Amount
- $6.6B
- Status
- closed
- Note
- secondary, to employees
Sources
All deals between Thrive Capital and OpenAI
- Oct 2, 2024 Thrive Capital → OpenAI · $6.6 billion round at $157 billion valuation led by Thrive $6.6B
- Oct 2, 2025 Thrive Capital → OpenAI · $6.6 billion secondary sale at $500 billion $6.6B
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