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2026 is set to be a pivotal year that will define the future direction of tech. We are already seeing companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Perplexity, SpaceX, and Neuralink leveraging AI to progress at an incredible pace. Yet none of these companies are public and therefore, out of reach for the everyday retail investor. The opportunity to invest in these companies is simply not available to the general public. But the one fund changing that is the Robinhood Ventures Fund (RVI).
Last month, the fund bought stakes in Stripe and ElevenLabs, helping investors take exposure to modern fintech and AI private companies. In fact, the fund is highly exposed to these two fields, with existing stakes in companies like Revolut, Mercor, Ramp, and Databricks. RVI has now added a new name to its holdings, Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The maker of ChatGPT is closing in on a trillion-dollar valuation in the private markets, and considering its dominant position in the artificial intelligence arena, this could still be as cheap as it gets for a company like OpenAI.
