Anthropic

Quick read

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

• Aug 2026leadership
  Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar appointed as Anthropic's first Chief Global Affairs Officer. anthropic.com
• Jul 2026investment
  AMD announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic and committed to invest up to $5 billion in the company, the latest in a series of compute infrastructure deals Anthropic has struck in 2026. cnbc.com
• Jul 2026product
  Cognizant and Anthropic expanded their partnership to bring Claude to enterprise clients. anthropic.com
• Jul 2026fundraise
  Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, giving the company the option to pursue an IPO pending completion of the SEC review. linkedin.com
• Jun 2026fundraise
  Anthropic raised $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue. linkedin.com
• May 2026product
  Anthropic held its first developer conference in San Francisco, announcing Claude Managed Agents, memory and multi-agent orchestration features, a compute deal with SpaceX's xAI infrastructure, doubled Claude usage limits for Pro and Max subscribers, and API rate limit increases of up to 17x for certain tiers. every.to
• May 2026product
  Claude for Legal launched with 12 practice-area plugins and 20+ MCP connectors linking Claude to legal software used by law firms and legal departments. aitoolsrecap.com
• Apr 2026investment
  Anthropic and Amazon expanded their collaboration with a commitment of more than $100 billion over 10 years to AWS, securing up to 5 gigawatts of new compute capacity. anthropic.com
• Jul 2026press
  Anthropic published a large-scale public survey — 81,000 Claude users across 159 countries and 70 languages — addressing hard questions about AI safety, children's futures, and disease research, under the title 'Inviting hard questions'. anthropic.com
• Jul 2026investment
  Anthropic signed a 20-year data center lease with Bitcoin miner TeraWulf, securing dedicated compute capacity. TeraWulf's CEO called demand for power 'very significant and the tip of the iceberg'. cnbc.com
• Jul 2026product
  Anthropic launched a beta reflection dashboard for Claude, letting Free, Pro, and Max users (with Memory enabled) track usage patterns, set quiet hours, and receive prompts to use AI more intentionally. Available on web and desktop. releasebot.io
• Jun 2026product
  Anthropic launched Claude Science, a product aimed at biologists and pharmaceutical companies, and announced an internal drug discovery program. CEO Dario Amodei presented it at a dedicated event covered by STAT News and CNBC. cnbc.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
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/05/anthropic-urges-temporary-pause-on-ai-development-to-discuss-risks
• https://releasebot.io/updates/anthropic
• https://www.anthropic.com/news/hard-questions
• https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/07/06/terawulf-ceo-on-anthropic-deal-demand-for-power-is-very-significant-and-its-the-tip-of-the-iceberg.html
• https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/30/anthropic-launches-ai-drug-discovery-program-claude-science.html
• https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2026/anthropic-s-5-huge-hires-from-openai-google-microsoft-and-xai-in-2026
• https://tracxn.com/d/companies/anthropic/__SzoxXDMin-NK5tKB7ks8yHr6S9Mz68pjVCzFEcGFZ08/funding-and-investors
• https://www.anthropic.com/news?KBOpenTab=undefined
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/anthropicresearch
• https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/amd-anthropic-ai-chip-investment.html
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nottombrown/
• https://every.to/chain-of-thought/inside-anthropic-s-2026-developer-conference
• https://aitoolsrecap.com/Blog/ai-news-may-12-2026

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