OpenAI starts to open the door to individual investors
By Dan Primack
Published on March 31, 2026.
OpenAI is allowing individual investors access its stock, ahead of its expected IPO. The company's shares will soon be included in several exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offered by ARK Invest, the firm that previously invested in OpenAI via its venture capital arm, and sold around $3 billion of shares to individual investors in a recent private placement with clients of three "very large banks". The investment was part of a new funding round that now totals $122 billion at an estimated $852 billion post-money valuation. This includes an earlier $110 billion commitment from Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank. The remaining $35 billion commitment is dependent on OpenAI meeting certain conditions, such as an IPO before 2028.
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