AgenciesOpenAI has sharply increased its acquisition pace in 2026, completing at least six deals in the first quarter alone, as it races to strengthen its position across enterprise software, developer tooling, and consumer-facing AI applications.
Here’s the list of acquisitions and deals by the AI giant so far:
Hiro Finance
OpenAI acquired the startup Hiro Finance as part of its efforts to position its AI chatbot as a useful tool for business finance teams on April 14.
As part of the deal, Hiro employees will be joining the OpenAI team. According to LinkedIn, the company has 10 employees.
Hiro Finance, backed by venture capital (VC) firm Ribbit as well as General Catalyst and Restive, was founded in 2023. The startup launched its AI-based financial planning tool roughly five months ago. It enabled AI-powered financial planning for consumers.
TBPN
OpenAI in March acquired the online talk show Technology Business Programming Network (TBPN). However, OpenAI did not reveal the terms of the deal.
OpenAI confirmed that TBPN will remain editorially independent, keeping full control over its programming, guest selection, editorial decisions, and production schedule.
The TBPN team will report to Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, and also assist with the company’s communications and marketing outside of the programme.
Launched in October 2024 by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, the 11-person company began three-hour weekday livestreams in March 2025.
Also Read: OpenAI’s TBPN acquisition rooted in decade-long founder ties, says John Coogan
Promptfoo
OpenAI also bought Promptfoo, a startup that enables large businesses to find and fix security issues in AI models during their development.
The ChatGPT maker will integrate Promptfoo’s technology into OpenAI Frontier, a recently launched platform that allows organisations to build and manage AI agents.
Two-year-old Promptfoo makes open-source tools for testing the security of AI systems as well as for helping companies try to attack their own products in order to find vulnerabilities, a process known as red-teaming.
The San Francisco-based startup counts roughly a quarter of Fortune 500 firms as customers.
Astral
OpenAI acquired Astral, bringing its open-source developer tools into its Codex ecosystem. Codex is OpenAI’s cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on multiple tasks in parallel, like answering questions about users’ codebases, fixing bugs, and more.
"OpenAI will continue supporting our open-source tools after the deal closes," Astral founder and CEO Charlie Marsh said in a statement.
Astral is a Python developer tools company founded in 2021 by Charlie Marsh, who also serves as its CEO.
Deal with Novo Nordisk
Danish pharmaceuticals group Novo Nordisk announced a "strategic partnership" with OpenAI to accelerate the development of new medications.
The partnership will enable Novo to better use AI to analyse complex datasets, identify promising new drugs, and reduce the time it takes for a medicine to move from the research stage to patient use, the company said in a statement.
Apart from the startup acquisitions and strategic deals, the company has hired talent, with the most recent being OpenClaw’s Peter Steinberger.
OpenAI on Tuesday said that the startup was valued at $852 billion in a freshly closed funding round that raised $122 billion.
"The capital being deployed today is helping build the infrastructure layer for intelligence itself," OpenAI said in a blog post.
Also Read: Nearly a billion people now use ChatGPT and Codex weekly, says OpenAI president Greg Brockman
Here’s the list of acquisitions and deals by the AI giant so far:
Hiro Finance
OpenAI acquired the startup Hiro Finance as part of its efforts to position its AI chatbot as a useful tool for business finance teams on April 14.
As part of the deal, Hiro employees will be joining the OpenAI team. According to LinkedIn, the company has 10 employees.
Hiro Finance, backed by venture capital (VC) firm Ribbit as well as General Catalyst and Restive, was founded in 2023. The startup launched its AI-based financial planning tool roughly five months ago. It enabled AI-powered financial planning for consumers.
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TBPN
OpenAI in March acquired the online talk show Technology Business Programming Network (TBPN). However, OpenAI did not reveal the terms of the deal.
OpenAI confirmed that TBPN will remain editorially independent, keeping full control over its programming, guest selection, editorial decisions, and production schedule.
The TBPN team will report to Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, and also assist with the company’s communications and marketing outside of the programme.
Launched in October 2024 by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, the 11-person company began three-hour weekday livestreams in March 2025.
Also Read: OpenAI’s TBPN acquisition rooted in decade-long founder ties, says John Coogan
Promptfoo
OpenAI also bought Promptfoo, a startup that enables large businesses to find and fix security issues in AI models during their development.
The ChatGPT maker will integrate Promptfoo’s technology into OpenAI Frontier, a recently launched platform that allows organisations to build and manage AI agents.
Two-year-old Promptfoo makes open-source tools for testing the security of AI systems as well as for helping companies try to attack their own products in order to find vulnerabilities, a process known as red-teaming.
The San Francisco-based startup counts roughly a quarter of Fortune 500 firms as customers.
Astral
OpenAI acquired Astral, bringing its open-source developer tools into its Codex ecosystem. Codex is OpenAI’s cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on multiple tasks in parallel, like answering questions about users’ codebases, fixing bugs, and more.
"OpenAI will continue supporting our open-source tools after the deal closes," Astral founder and CEO Charlie Marsh said in a statement.
Astral is a Python developer tools company founded in 2021 by Charlie Marsh, who also serves as its CEO.
Deal with Novo Nordisk
Danish pharmaceuticals group Novo Nordisk announced a "strategic partnership" with OpenAI to accelerate the development of new medications.
The partnership will enable Novo to better use AI to analyse complex datasets, identify promising new drugs, and reduce the time it takes for a medicine to move from the research stage to patient use, the company said in a statement.
Apart from the startup acquisitions and strategic deals, the company has hired talent, with the most recent being OpenClaw’s Peter Steinberger.
OpenAI on Tuesday said that the startup was valued at $852 billion in a freshly closed funding round that raised $122 billion.
"The capital being deployed today is helping build the infrastructure layer for intelligence itself," OpenAI said in a blog post.
Also Read: Nearly a billion people now use ChatGPT and Codex weekly, says OpenAI president Greg Brockman
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