OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise

OpenAI 支持的 Thrive Holdings 融资 20 亿美元，旨在将 AI 引入企业

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital. Thrive Holdings is akin to a private equity firm for AI, buying traditional businesses like accounting firms and implementing AI into their workflows. Thrive Holdings 近日完成了 20 亿美元的新一轮融资，估值达到 120 亿美元。投资方包括软银（SoftBank）、D1 Capital Partners 和 Altimeter Capital 等。Thrive Holdings 类似于一家专注于人工智能的私募股权公司，通过收购会计师事务所等传统企业，并将 AI 技术植入其工作流程中。

So far, Thrive has focused on accounting and information technology, but part of Wednesday’s raise will go toward expanding a new vertical in physical assets. Key to that strategy is Thrive’s close relationship with OpenAI. The New York Times was first to report the news. The firm is a spinout of Thrive Capital, one of OpenAI’s major investors. In December 2025, OpenAI took an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings. Part of the deal involved OpenAI sending employees to work with Thrive’s companies to accelerate AI adoption. 到目前为止，Thrive 主要专注于会计和信息技术领域，但周三筹集的部分资金将用于拓展物理资产这一新垂直领域。该战略的关键在于 Thrive 与 OpenAI 的密切关系。《纽约时报》率先报道了这一消息。该公司是 OpenAI 主要投资者之一 Thrive Capital 的衍生机构。2025 年 12 月，OpenAI 入股了 Thrive Holdings。作为协议的一部分，OpenAI 派遣员工与 Thrive 旗下的公司合作，以加速 AI 的应用。

That hands-on model of AI implementation has become a business in its own right, and may help explain investor enthusiasm behind Thrive’s latest fundraise. OpenAI and Anthropic have both partnered with large private equity firms to launch The Deployment Company and Ode with Anthropic, respectively — billion-dollar ventures that are building teams of elite engineers who embed themselves into enterprises and implement AI solutions into workflows. 这种亲力亲为的 AI 实施模式本身已经成为一项业务，这或许可以解释投资者对 Thrive 最新一轮融资的热情。OpenAI 和 Anthropic 此前都曾与大型私募股权公司合作，分别推出了 The Deployment Company 和 Ode with Anthropic——这些价值数十亿美元的创投项目正在组建精英工程师团队，深入企业内部，将 AI 解决方案植入工作流程。

The raise comes off the back of proven success for Thrive’s companies, which has surpassed 70 businesses on Thrive Holdings’ platforms. The company has focused on two pillars to date: Current, its accounting arm with more than 50 firms and more than 2,000 professionals, and Shield, its information technology arm with around 20 companies on the platform. 此次融资建立在 Thrive 旗下公司已取得的成功基础之上，目前 Thrive Holdings 平台上的企业数量已超过 70 家。迄今为止，该公司专注于两大支柱：会计部门 Current（拥有 50 多家事务所和 2000 多名专业人员）以及信息技术部门 Shield（平台上约有 20 家公司）。

Current’s self-improving tax agents, dubbed TaxAI, processed more than 7,000 tax returns at 98% accuracy, lowering tax prep times at participating firms by over 30%, according to Thrive. Meanwhile, Shield’s AI products have sped up help desk resolution times by 36x, and the platform has doubled the number of custom AI agents deployed in the last month. 据 Thrive 称，Current 的自进化税务代理“TaxAI”已处理了超过 7000 份纳税申报表，准确率高达 98%，使参与事务所的税务准备时间缩短了 30% 以上。与此同时，Shield 的 AI 产品将服务台的响应解决时间缩短了 36 倍，且该平台在过去一个月内部署的定制 AI 代理数量翻了一番。

Part of the Wednesday’s fundraise will help Thrive launch a third platform focused on regulatory services for the built environment, described by a spokesperson as: “the work required to get physical assets approved, built, certified, and kept in operation.” 周三筹集的部分资金将帮助 Thrive 推出第三个平台，专注于建筑环境的监管服务。发言人将其描述为：“使物理资产获得批准、建造、认证并保持运营所需的工作。”

“The U.S. needs to build and modernize more critical infrastructure, but projects are often constrained by local, technical, and regulatory complexity,” Anuj Mehndiratta, a founding member of Thrive Holdings, told TechCrunch. “This applies across data centers, manufacturing, healthcare, power, water, transportation, and other physical infrastructure.” “美国需要建设和升级更多的关键基础设施，但项目往往受到地方、技术和监管复杂性的制约，”Thrive Holdings 的创始成员 Anuj Mehndiratta 在接受 TechCrunch 采访时表示，“这适用于数据中心、制造业、医疗保健、电力、水利、交通和其他物理基础设施。”

That sort of complexity is where Thrive, well, thrives — large, fragmented, mission-critical, and operationally complex. While Mehndiratta says AI won’t replace field work, local judgement, or professional sign-off, it can help ease manual workflows like research, reporting, permit preparation, inspection documentation, and compliance tracking. 这种复杂性正是 Thrive 的“用武之地”——即处理那些规模庞大、碎片化、任务关键且运营复杂的领域。虽然 Mehndiratta 表示 AI 不会取代实地工作、本地判断或专业签字，但它可以帮助简化研究、报告、许可证准备、检查文档和合规性跟踪等手动工作流程。

“We think AI partnered with a lot of the experts and practitioners at these businesses can really help compress [regulatory bottlenecks], keep the safety standards high, but also be able to do it with less of a burden to the actual building of that and help it do it more efficiently, lower cost and do it faster,” Kareem Zaki, a founding member of Thrive Holdings, said in a statement emailed to TechCrunch. “我们认为，AI 与这些企业中的许多专家和从业者合作，确实可以帮助压缩（监管瓶颈），保持高安全标准，同时减轻实际建设过程中的负担，并帮助其更高效、更低成本、更快速地完成工作，”Thrive Holdings 的创始成员 Kareem Zaki 在发给 TechCrunch 的电子邮件声明中表示。