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OpenAI Founder Genealogy Tree - YC Alumni Startups
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OpenAI Founders

Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
 Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Safe Superintelligence Inc
 Wojciech Zaremba
Wojciech Zaremba
Co-Founder of OpenAI
 Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei
CEO and Co-Founder at Anthropic

YC Companies Founded by OpenAI Alumni

8 YC-backed companies founded by former OpenAI employees

Direct - 7 companies

Living Carbon YC W20
livingcarbon.com
OpenAI → Living Carbon
Maddie Hall Maddie Hall (Special Projects)
MindFort AI (YC X25) YC X25
mindfort.ai
OpenAI → MindFort AI (YC X25)
Akul Gupta Akul Gupta (Red Team Engineer)
SafetyKit YC S23
safetykit.com
OpenAI → SafetyKit
Alex Rosenblatt Alex Rosenblatt (Language Model Adversarial Tester)
SciFounders
scifounders.com
OpenAI → SciFounders
Matt Krisiloff Matt Krisiloff (Founding Team Member)
Stormy Ai YC S25
stormy.ai
OpenAI → Stormy Ai
Arseny Stefanov Arseny Stefanov (AGI Catalyst)
d_model YC S24
dmodel.ai
OpenAI → d_model
Anish Tondwalkar Anish Tondwalkar (Member of Technical Staff)
Daedalus YC W20
daedalus.de
OpenAI → Daedalus
Jonas Schneider Jonas Schneider (Tech Lead)

Level 1 - 1 companies

OpenAI → Daedalus → Spherecast (YC S24)
Pascal Schindler Pascal Schindler (Robotics Engineer (YC W20))

Frequently Asked Questions

Who founded OpenAI?

OpenAI was founded by Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba and Dario Amodei.

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