OpenAI ECONOMIC

Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships

No public evidence identified.

The reviewed corporate statements, reporting, and supplied NGO-library pre-scan do not identify OpenAI procurement from Israeli agricultural exporters, an Israeli importer-of-record entity, recurring seasonal sourcing, or Israeli-origin goods distributed through white-label arrangements ^{1, 2, 3}.

OpenAI’s published structure identifies OpenAI Group PBC as its operating for-profit and OpenAI Foundation as the controlling nonprofit, rather than identifying an Israeli sourcing entity or supplier relationship ⁴.

Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance

The reviewed sources do not identify physical Israeli-origin or settlement-origin consumer products sold by OpenAI ^{1, 2, 3}.

No public evidence identified of a country-of-origin labeling citation involving OpenAI or a published OpenAI policy specifically addressing settlement-goods labeling.

Israel’s official trademark register records trademark no. 361877 for software-as-a-service and language-model services, with OpenAI OpCo, LLC - a Delaware LLC at a San Francisco address - listed as proprietor ⁵.

The trademark record supports protection of specified software and language-model services in Israel, but does not by itself establish an Israeli subsidiary, office, tax residence, or physical product origin ⁵.

Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure

Associated Press reported in February 2025, based on internal documents, data, and interviews, that the Israeli military purchased advanced OpenAI models through Microsoft Azure and that Microsoft data showed substantial military use of transcription, translation, and OpenAI models after 7 October 2023 ¹.

Associated Press separately reported OpenAI’s statement that it did not have a partnership with Israel’s military ¹.

Microsoft stated that it provides Israel’s Ministry of Defense with software, professional services, Azure cloud services, and Azure AI services including language translation under a standard commercial relationship, without identifying OpenAI as the contracting party ².

OpenAI and Microsoft stated in February 2026 that Azure is the exclusive cloud provider for stateless OpenAI APIs and that OpenAI first-party products would continue to be hosted on Azure ⁶.

This cloud-provider relationship confirms a continuing technical intermediary relationship, but does not itself identify an Israeli customer, direct OpenAI contract, or Israeli military procurement agreement ^{2, 6}.

The supplied pre-scan identified a secondary-investigation lead describing GPT-4 as approximately one-quarter of reported relevant consumption in the first year of the war, but the underlying cited records were not retrieved and the lead is therefore unresolved ¹.

No public evidence identified of direct OpenAI investment in Israeli factories, data centres, logistics assets, real estate, Israeli sovereign bonds, Israel Bonds, or Israel-focused funds.

An SEC Form D index exists for a Jerusalem-addressed vehicle named “OurCrowd (Investment in G-new OpenAI) L.P.,” but the index alone does not establish ownership of OpenAI securities, investment size, or Israeli control of OpenAI ⁷.

OpenAI’s October 2025 structure disclosure states that the Foundation held 26% of OpenAI Group, Microsoft held approximately 27%, and current and former employees and investors collectively held the remaining 47%, without identifying individual holders in the latter category ⁴.

Operational Presence & Market Activity

Globes reported in July 2026, citing sources close to OpenAI, that OpenAI had no Israeli office, development centre, or Israel-only country manager and was developing the Israeli market through EMEA-based personnel ³.

Globes reported that Tricia Troth led EMEA startup marketing and sales, including Israel, and that London-based employee Eliran Ben-David worked with companies across EMEA, including Israeli startups ³.

The report described this work as including promotion of Codex and OpenAI partnerships on Amazon Bedrock, while noting that OpenAI did not respond to the publication’s inquiries ³.

No public evidence identified of OpenAI-operated premises, warehouses, support centres, workforce-size disclosure, Israeli tax registration, or operations in West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem settlements, or the Golan Heights.

The Delaware Department of Justice correspondence was addressed to OpenAI, Inc.’s general counsel at 1455 Third Street, San Francisco, which establishes an address used in that correspondence but not a complete operational-location or tax-residence list ⁸.

Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties

OpenAI, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware on 8 December 2015 as a non-stock corporation, with charitable and educational purposes concerning AI research, development, and distribution ⁹.

OpenAI’s current published structure identifies OpenAI Foundation as the nonprofit and OpenAI Group PBC as the operating for-profit ⁴.

OpenAI states that the Foundation controls the Group through exclusive governance rights, including appointment and replacement of every Group director ⁴.

The Delaware Department of Justice’s conditional non-objection records OpenAI’s representation that the nonprofit board has sole authority to appoint and remove PBC directors and retains specified approval rights over governance, mission, material asset sales or liquidation, and voting-rights changes ⁸.

OpenAI identifies Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Zico Kolter, Paul M. Nakasone, Adebayo Ogunlesi, Nicole Seligman, and Sam Altman as Foundation directors, with Kolter serving as a non-voting Group-board observer and chair of the Safety and Security Committee ⁴.

OpenAI announced Mark Chen as Chief Research Officer, Brad Lightcap as Chief Operating Officer, and Julia Villagra as Chief People Officer in March 2025 ¹⁰.

No public evidence identified that OpenAI was founded or incorporated in Israel, has Israeli headquarters or principal management, holds Israeli Preferred Technology Enterprise status, is controlled by Israeli capital, or has Israeli state ownership or governance rights.

No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate-structure records of an OpenAI acquisition or controlling stake in an Israeli operating company.

Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution

No public evidence identified of Israel-specific OpenAI revenue, profit repatriation into Israel, Israeli tax contribution, or a public designation of OpenAI as an Israeli economic-sector anchor.

OpenAI’s public recapitalization disclosure provides aggregate ownership percentages but does not establish Israel-specific revenue allocation, tax payments, profit flows, or a complete beneficial-ownership register ⁴.

The available materials do not include a complete public legal-entity chart, subsidiary register, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction registration list, or Israeli tax and corporate-registry extract capable of resolving all local legal-entity and fiscal questions ^{4, 8, 5}.