Roi
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Roi was a New York-based AI-powered personal finance app founded in 2022 by CEO Sujith Vishwajith (and co-founder Chip Davis). It unified users' financial portfolios — stocks, crypto, real estate, NFTs — into a single app with a personalized AI companion offering insights and trade help. It raised $3.6 million from Balaji Srinivasan, Spark Capital, Gradient Ventures and Spacecadet Ventures. In October 2025 it was acquired by OpenAI in an acqui-hire.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Sujith Vishwajith founded Roi in New York as an AI personal finance app.
- Acquired
OpenAI acquired Roi; the CEO joined OpenAI and the app wound down on October 15.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
On October 3, 2025, OpenAI announced it had acquired Roi in an acqui-hire to advance personalized consumer AI.
- 02
CEO and co-founder Sujith Vishwajith joined OpenAI (the only one of Roi's four-person team to do so); terms were not disclosed.
- 03
The Roi app wound down operations and ended customer service on October 15, 2025.