OpenAI
9/10Established private AI company / scale stage (not specified in the article).Not specified in the article (publicly known to have received strategic investment from Microsoft).San Francisco, CA (not specified in the article).
Description
AI research and product company that builds and operates large foundation models and developer platforms; the article quotes Marc Manara, OpenAI's head of startups, on how OpenAI supports AI-native companies.
Why in News
The piece centers on Marc Manara, OpenAI's head of startups, discussing what startups want from OpenAI and noting that AI-native companies are scaling to hundreds of millions in ARR and moving at much faster product cycles.
Founders
Not specified in the article (publicly: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman, Elon Musk among early co-founders).
Published
January 20, 2026
Website
https://openai.comAnalysis
Directly about OpenAI and startups' use of its capabilities — clearly AI-focused and relevant to AI-native companies.