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Sam Altman portfolio
Sam Altman has 13 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.
About this page
It is an angel investor. It led 5 of the 16 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Exowatt's $70M Series A round in May 2026, alongside Thrive Capital, Atomic, MVP Ventures and 6 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Developer tools and cloud (3) and Fintech (3). It has co-invested with Felicis, Capricorn Investment Group and Mithril Capital, most often Felicis (3 rounds).
About Sam Altman
What Sam Altman invests in
- Developer tools and cloud · 3 · 23%
- Fintech · 3 · 23%
- AI infrastructure and compute · 2 · 15%
- Climate and energy · 2 · 15%
- Robotics and hardware · 2 · 15%
- Health and bio · 2 · 15%
- Manufacturing and industrial · 1 · 8%
- Stablecoins · 1 · 8%
Sam Altman recent investments
| Company | Round | Date | Alongside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series A · $70M | Thrive Capital, Atomic, MVP Ventures +6 | ||
| Series A · $50M | Protagonist, Overmatch Ventures, Dragon Global +6 | ||
| Series B+ · $425M | Capricorn Investment Group, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Mithril Capital +3 | ||
| Seed · $20M | 8090 Industries, Atomic, Climate Capital +3 | ||
| Series B+ · $35M · lead | none named | ||
| Series A · $30M | Michael Tannenbaum, MONASHEES, Max Altman +6 | ||
| Seed · $19M · lead | Parker Conrad, Socially Financed, StillMark +6 | ||
| Series B+ · $38M | Sanjit Biswas, Reid Hoffman, Tobias Lutke +6 |
How Sam Altman invests
Sam Altman portfolio companies
EExowatt$70MSeries A · May 2026
HHelion Energy$425MSeries B+ · Jan 2025
MMeter$35MSeries B+ · Feb 2024
SSlope$30MSeries A · Sep 2023
MMeanwhile$19MSeed · Jun 2023
RRescaleSeries B+ · Nov 2021
HHumane$100MSeries B+ · Sep 2021
RRoutable$30MSeries B+ · Apr 2021
AAspen Neuroscience$70MSeries A · Apr 2020
CCampusbacker
RRoboflowbacker
PPlanebacker
CConceptionbacker
| Company | Round with Sam Altman | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
AI infrastructure and compute |
Series A · $70M | $140M | May 7, 2026 Series A |
Climate and energy |
Series B+ · $425M | $1.44B | Jun 4, 2026 Series B+ |
Robotics and hardware |
Series B+ · $35M · lead | $243M | Jun 12, 2025 Series B+ |
Stablecoins |
Series A · $30M | $95M | Jul 17, 2024 round |
Insurance |
Seed · $19M · lead | $178.5M | Oct 9, 2026 round |
AI infrastructure and compute |
Series B+ | $203.4M | Oct 11, 2025 Series B+ |
Robotics and hardware |
Series B+ · $100M | $139M | Sep 1, 2021 Series B+ |
Fintech |
Series B+ · $30M · lead | $42M | May 26, 2025 Series B+ |
Health and bio |
Series A · $70M | $339M | Nov 20, 2025 Series B+ |
Education |
backer · source | $69M | Mar 20, 2025 Series B+ |
| backer | $40M | Oct 4, 2025 Series B+ | |
Legal and compliance |
backer | $4M | Jan 28, 2026 Series B+ |
Health and bio |
backer | undisclosed | — |
Most frequent co-investors
FFelicis3 shared rounds · last May 7, 2026
CCapricorn Investment Group3 shared rounds · last Jan 28, 2025
- MMithril Capital3 shared rounds · last Jan 28, 2025
YY Combinator3 shared rounds · last Sep 27, 2023SStepStone Group2 shared rounds · last May 7, 2026
MMVP Ventures2 shared rounds · last May 7, 2026
AAtomic2 shared rounds · last May 7, 2026
JJack Altman2 shared rounds · last Sep 27, 2023
SScott Belsky2 shared rounds · last May 23, 2022
PPeter Thiel2 shared rounds · last Nov 23, 2021
RRichard Branson2 shared rounds · last Nov 23, 2021
DDustin Moskovitz2 shared rounds · last Nov 5, 2021
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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Developer tools and cloud).
How this is counted
Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.
Share is of the 16 rounds on Recent Funding that name Sam Altman. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.
Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Sam Altman, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/sam-altman (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.