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OpenAI

AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

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Bland AI

Bland AI builds proprietary voice AI models and phone agents that automate inbound and outbound enterprise calls for long, complex, high-stakes conversations.

3 Pulse stories
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OpenAI

OpenAI is the maker of ChatGPT and the GPT model family, serving roughly 900M weekly active users with 50M+ paid subscribers — it filed its S-1 on June 8, 2026 ahead of a planned IPO.

196 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$100M+
$180B
Bland AIOpenAI
Last Valuation
$852B
Bland AIOpenAI
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2023
Founded
2015
San Francisco, CA
HQ
San Francisco, California, USA
Private
Status
Private
Bland AI investors
Dell Technologies CapitalHubSpot VenturesArcherman CapitalTribeca Venture PartnersEmergence CapitalUpfront VenturesScale Venture PartnersY Combinator
OpenAI investors
MicrosoftSoftBankNvidiaAmazonThrive CapitalSequoia CapitalKhosla Ventures

Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Bland AI and OpenAI.

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