A few hours after the Altman and Ive ions announced on Wednesday that Opeli is buying Ive, IO, in the All-Magazine transaction value $ 6.5 billion, General CEO of Klarana Sebastian Siematkowski published Surprising message to x.
Bought Siematkowski’s family investment office, Flat Capital shares in the first six months earlierhe said. Because this is a contract for the whole, these Actions shall be transformed into shares in OPENAI to profit.
“Excited about this @Flatcapital He was an investor in the IO and that we will now receive even more shares at Openai with a huge return for the investment, which we carried out about 6 months ago, “Siematkowski wrote on Twitter.
The post generated so much interest that his investment company issued a public statement confirming that IO was a secret, an unnamed company she supported When he announced Four investments in the “mini-portfolio” of American AI firms. Flat Capital revealed that he spent 34 million SEK on IO, which is transformed into around $ 3.6 million.
Then got here one other surprising tweet of former Googler and designer Luke Wroblebski, who is currently working as a managing director at the secret company Sutter Hill Ventures from Secretive Valley Valley VC.
In the tweet and post LinkedIn, Wroblebski wrote: “Congratulations to the IO takeover of USD 6.5 billion by OpenAi. I am glad that I was an investor in this.”
According to Some who saw Additional removed tweeths about the sutter investment could have been the second largest investor in the IO. TechCrunch couldn’t confirm this. Sutter didn’t answer our request for comment, and Wroblebski removed his posts after we arrived.
Opeli himself was the largest investor in the IO, with a 23% rate, The sources were informed by BloombergAdding that this share was priced at around $ 1.5 billion. This signifies that Opeli paid about $ 5 billion in shares for other shares. Other supporters of IO, in accordance with Bloomberg, covered the company Laurene Powell Jobs Emerson Collective, Thrive Capital, Maverick Ventures, SV Angel and Openai Fund. As we informed earlier, this fund is not supported by money with the producer of the AI model, but by external investors. Despite the removed tweets, Bloomberg also confirmed that Sutter Hill Ventures was an investor.