WSJ reported recently that OpenAI - the company behind viral AI tech like ChatGPT, Dall-E etc., is looking to sell shares at a valuation of $29B

This would make OpenAI, the 10th most valuable startup in the world.

Private companies valuations can be tough to gauge if they haven’t raised recently. To make this post, I collated info from public available media reports.

Over last 12-18 months, valuation of some of these companies has been marked down from their peak, while some others are still due for a correction:

1. Epic Games (creator of Fortnite) raised in April 2022
2. SpaceX and OpenAI are currently in talks to price their equity, and Fanatics raised recently in Dec-22
3. Shein, ByteDance (Creator of TikTok), Stripe and Databricks have already written down their peak valuations. Some recent reports show that ByteDance may be further marked down (Link)
4. Canva last raised in 2021 and is due for a correction (Note: one of Canva’s investor - Blackbird, has already written down their stake in Canva by 36% (Link)

Revolut also raised in 2021 and hasn’t marked down its valuation yet. This is quite possible in 2023, specially as 2 other large Fintech startups Klarna and Checkout.com has had a huge markdown (Klarna from $45.6B to $6.7B and Checkout $40B to $11B)

While there are many impressive companies on this list, OpenAI really stands out

1. Together with Revolut, it's the youngest company in the list
2. It has very few employees. Less than 500 according to most sources. All others have thousands of employees
3. It has very little revenue - though the company projects to hit $1B revenue by 2024 (Link)

Note that the industry mentioned in the post is indicative to give an idea of their core businesses. In some cases, e.g. Fanatics, they engage in a lot of different businesses related to Sports fans.

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Source: Publicly Available Media reports

Tools: Google Slides and Vizzlo