
Invest in anything, anywhere
All-in-one investing app to track, trade, and manage stocks, crypto, and NFTs across existing brokerages.
Roi was an AI-powered investing platform that unified stocks, bonds, retirement accounts, crypto, NFTs, and DeFi assets into a single dashboard. Users could connect existing brokerage accounts from Robinhood, Coinbase, TD Ameritrade, and WeBull to trade without additional fees, while the proprietary Roi AI chatbot provided personalized financial guidance. The app also featured Copy Trade Portfolios, letting users replicate the strategies of famous investors and hedge funds. Founded by two former Airbnb engineers, Roi raised $3.6M from Spark Capital, Google's Gradient Ventures, and Kevin Durant's 35 Ventures before being acquired by OpenAI in October 2025.
Roi caught our attention as a sleek, AI-native take on portfolio management that treated crypto and NFTs with the same seriousness as stocks and bonds. The Airbnb engineering pedigree of its founders and a clever zero-fee trading model through existing brokerages signaled a team that understood consumer product-market fit โ a thesis validated when OpenAI acqui-hired the CEO less than three years later.
Discovery signal: Ex-Airbnb founding team, unique multi-asset class approach combining crypto/NFT/stock tracking with AI chatbot
Roi treated crypto, NFTs, and traditional assets as first-class citizens in a single unified dashboard with zero-fee trading through existing brokerages, plus an AI chatbot for personalized financial guidance โ a combination competitors lacked.
$3.6M
Seed Round
OpenAI
Acquirer
Co-Founder & CEO
Former software engineer at Airbnb, where a 25-line code change he authored generated over $10M in additional revenue. Now at OpenAI following the Roi acquisition.
Co-Founder & CPO
Former Staff Designer at Airbnb with a background in design at Nike (AKQA) and Faraday Future. Previously held roles at 72andSunny and Saatchi & Saatchi.
Lead: Spark Capital
Former CTO, Coinbase