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Retail traders can now get long OpenAI as Robinhood's venture fund takes a stake

Cnbc · · 290 words · By Tanaya Macheel
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“Robinhood's proprietary investment vehicle for retail investors has taken a small stake in privately held OpenAI”
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Multiple independent web sources (Decrypt, TradingView, and other news reports) confirm that Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) has invested in OpenAI.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company based in Menlo Park, California. It provides an electronic trading platform that facilitates trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinhood_Markets
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thrive Capital Management, LLC, commonly Thrive Capital, is an American venture capital firm based in New York City. It focuses on software and internet investments. The firm was founded by Joshua Kus…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrive_Capital
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund formed in 2005 and based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $17 billion in total assets under management as of 2025. Founders Fund was the first i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund
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“The Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI)... invested $75 million in the artificial intelligence giant.”
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Three separate web sources explicitly state that the Robinhood Ventures Fund I invested approximately $75 million in OpenAI common stock.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund formed in 2005 and based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $17 billion in total assets under management as of 2025. Founders Fund was the first i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company based in Menlo Park, California. It provides an electronic trading platform that facilitates trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinhood_Markets
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thrive Capital Management, LLC, commonly Thrive Capital, is an American venture capital firm based in New York City. It focuses on software and internet investments. The firm was founded by Joshua Kus…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrive_Capital
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“The fund went public and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange this March.”
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Multiple sources confirm the fund began trading on the NYSE in March, with one source specifying the date as March 6, 2026, under the symbol RVI.
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web search NEUTRAL — Robinhood’s new closed-end Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) has disclosed its first investments, buying about $14.6 million of Stripe shares and $20 million of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March. The…
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/17/robinhood-s-new-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Robinhood Ventures Fund I, which is the first fund from Robinhood Ventures, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 6, 2026 under the symbol RVI.
https://www.quiverquant.com/news/Robinhood+Ventures+Fund+I+C…
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web search NEUTRAL — Robinhood Ventures Fund I, which is the first fund from Robinhood Ventures, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 6, 2026 under the symbol RVI.
https://robinhood.com/us/en/newsroom/rvi-openai/
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“Sarah Pinto, president of Robinhood Ventures Fund I”
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The search results for 'Sarah Pinto' returned information about the biblical Sarah and general name meanings, but provided no evidence regarding a person named Sarah Pinto serving as president of Robinhood Ventures Fund I.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sarah[a] (originally Sarai) [b] is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam al…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah
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web search NEUTRAL — Sarah’s Shabbat lamp would miraculously burn from one Shabbat to the next, her bread was blessed (and bountiful), and a cloud hovered over her tent. After her passing, her son knew that he had married…
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5691887/jewis…
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 6, 2024 · From the Hebrew name שָׂרָה (Sara) meaning "lady, princess, noblewoman". In the Old Testament this is the name of Abraham 's wife, considered the matriarch of the Jewish people. She was …
https://www.behindthename.com/name/sarah
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“Last summer, the ChatGPT company and its founder Sam Altman publicly pushed back on Robinhood's plans to offer "tokenized" equity”
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Web search results confirm that OpenAI distanced itself from and denied involvement in Robinhood's plans to offer tokenized equity, stating they did not authorize the creation of such tokens.
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI distanced itself from Robinhood's announcement that it would offer "tokenized" equity in the AI giant on its platform. Robinhood revealed plans to offer tokenized shares of private companies li…
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-stock-robinhood-token…
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web search NEUTRAL — Robinhood recently introduced tokenized US equities and crypto perpetual futures in the EU.OpenAI has denied any connection to Robinhood’s tokenized equity launch on Arbitrum, stating it did not autho…
https://cryptobriefing.com/tokenized-equity-launch-arbitrum/
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web search NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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“Robinhood began offering tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX to users in Europe.”
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Multiple sources confirm that Robinhood offered tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX to users in Europe, though some sources clarify these are derivative products rather than actual shares.
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI wasn’t wrong. In truth, Robinhood's OpenAI tokens (as per their own disclaimers) are not actual shares of OpenAI, but rather a derivative product that provides indirect exposure to the private …
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christopher-perkins-092569a_l…
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web search NEUTRAL — For people EU users who downloaded the Robinhood app, Tenev said they would have a chance to own tokenized shares in OpenAI and SpaceX. Tenev said that after a week, users would be able to claim token…
https://www.theblock.co/post/360354/robinhood-to-offer-token…
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web search NEUTRAL — Robinhood is now offering tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX to users in Europe, sending its shares up nearly 13% to a new all-time high.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/robinh…
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“The Robinhood fund also holds stakes in Databricks, Revolut and Oura.”
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Three independent web search results confirm that the Robinhood Ventures Fund I holds stakes in Databricks, Revolut, and Oura.
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web search NEUTRAL — Robinhood Ventures Fund I already holds stakes in several high-profile private companies. These include Databricks, Revolut, and Oura.
https://invezz.com/news/2026/04/22/robinhood-fund-takes-75-m…
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web search NEUTRAL — CNBC notes the Robinhood fund also has stakes in Databricks, Revolut and Oura.Robinhood's proprietary investment vehicle for retail investors has taken a small stake in privately held OpenAI, the trad…
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/robinhood-venture-fund-t…
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web search NEUTRAL — Robinhood Ventures Fund I already holds stakes in several high-profile private companies. These include Databricks, Revolut, and Oura.
https://www.tradingview.com/news/invezz:cb0176201094b:0-robi…
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