SSI raises $1B at a $5B valuation three months after founding

Safe Superintelligence/SSI research programme

Safe Superintelligence raised $1 billion three months after its founding, from investors including NFDG, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel, at a reported $5 billion valuation. This was an unusually large sum for a company with no product, founded by Ilya Sutskever after leaving OpenAI.

• Raised $1B at $5B valuation three months after founding; funded by NFDG, AH, Sequoia, DST, SV Angel
• Ilya Sutskever (former OpenAI co-founder) leads the company
• No public product released at time of funding
• Valuation later increased 6x to $32B in April 2025 round