Anthropic

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Anthropic, an AI safety company, was founded in January 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. It builds the Claude family of large language models with a focus on safety, interpretability, and alignment. Annualized revenue surged from $1B in early 2025 to $30B by April 2026, making it the fastest-growing enterprise software company on record.

Key facts

Founded

January 2021

Founders

Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Ben Mann, Chris Olah, Jack Clark, Sam McCandlish

Employees

5000+

Sectors

ai, saas, enterprise

Website

anthropic.com

Mission

Build AI systems that are safe, reliable, and interpretable — developing frontier models through Constitutional AI techniques with the goal of benefiting humanity as AI becomes increasingly powerful.

Recent activity

• May 2026fundraise
  Anthropic is in talks to raise $30–50B at a valuation of up to $950B, roughly 2.5x its $380B valuation from February 2026, per the New York Times. nytimes.com
• May 2026product
  Anthropic acquired Stainless, an API SDK tooling company, and announced a $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation. anthropic.com
• May 2026product
  KPMG integrated Claude across its entire workforce of 276,000+ in a strategic alliance; PwC also announced deployment of Claude to build technology and execute deals for enterprise clients. anthropic.com
• May 2026leadership
  Anthropic hired Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, amid surging growth momentum. tracxn.com
• Apr 2026product
  Anthropic announced Mythos and Project Glasswing, committing up to $100M in Mythos Preview usage credits to partners and open-source maintainers; Claude Cowork became generally available. startupintros.com
• Feb 2026fundraise
  Anthropic closed a $30B Series G round, bringing its post-money valuation to $380B. The round was led by Coatue and GIC. en.wikipedia.org
• Feb 2026press
  Anthropic aired two commercials during Super Bowl LX as part of its 'A Time and a Place' marketing campaign, marking its first major consumer advertising push. en.wikipedia.org
• Oct 2025product
  Anthropic announced plans to open an office in Bengaluru, India in early 2026, targeting the developer community and enterprise partnerships. x.com

Key people

Named individuals at the firm. We don't expose direct email or phone — use their LinkedIn for outreach.

• Dario Amodei · CEO & Co-founder
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• Daniela Amodei · President & Co-founder
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• Sam McCandlish · CTO & Co-founder
• Krishna Rao · CFO
• Chris Olah · Co-founder
• Ben Mann · Co-founder
• Jack Clark · Co-founder
• Anna Goldie · Employee
• Justin Spahr-Summers · Employee
• Jordan Burgess · Employee
• Daniela Amodei · President
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• Mike Krieger · Chief Product Officer
• Tom Brown · Co-founder
• Jared Kaplan · Co-founder, Chief Science Officer
• Logan Kilpatrick · Claude DevRel

Sources

• Anthropic - Wikipedia
• Anthropic in Talks to Raise Funding at a $950 Billion Valuation - NYT
• Anthropic's $900 Billion Funding Round Set To Surpass OpenAI - Forbes
• Anthropic News
• Anthropic - 2026 Company Profile - Tracxn
• Anthropic: Funding, Team & Investors - StartupIntros

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