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Anthropic

Frontier AI Lab
Founded Jan 2021 (5 years old)HQ: San Francisco, CAanthropic.com

Also known as: Anthropic PBC, Anthropic AI

Funding History

7
Series GequityFeb 2026
$30Bat $380B valuationLed by GIC / Coatue
Series G led by GIC and Coatue, co-led by D.E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX. Round includes a portion of previously announced investments from Microsoft and NVIDIA. Significant investors include Accel, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer, General Catalyst, Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Lightspeed, Menlo, Morgan Stanley, Temasek, TPG, and others. Post-money valuation of $380B — second-largest private venture funding deal of all time.
anthropic.com
Series FequitySep 2025
$13Bat $183B valuationLed by ICONIQ
Series F led by ICONIQ, co-led by Fidelity Management & Research and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Significant investors include Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, GIC, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, General Catalyst, Insight Partners, Jane Street, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Qatar Investment Authority, TPG, T. Rowe Price, and XN. Post-money valuation of $183B.
anthropic.com
Series EequityMar 2025
$3.5Bat $62B valuationLed by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Series E led by Lightspeed Venture Partners ($1B contributed). Participants included Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. Post-money valuation of $61.5B.
anthropic.com
Series DFeb 2024
$750Mat $18B valuationLed by Menlo Ventures
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Series CequityMay 2023
$450MLed by Spark Capital
Series C led by Spark Capital. Other participants included Google, Menlo Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Microsoft, and others. Google separately agreed to invest up to $2B in 2023 to acquire ~10% stake.
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Series BequityApr 2022
$580Mat $4B valuationLed by FTX / Sam Bankman-Fried
Series B led by Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison of FTX. Post-money valuation of $4B. FTX subsequently collapsed in 2022.
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Series AequityMay 2021
$124Mat $550M valuationLed by Dustin Moscovitz / Jaan Tallinn
Dustin Moscovitz (Facebook co-founder) and Jaan Tallinn (Skype co-founder) were among seed investors and led the Series A. Pre-money valuation of $550M.
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All Facts

Financial

Annual Cash Burn$3BDec 20252 pts
As OfValueLink
Dec 2025$3Bview →
Dec 2024$5.6Bview →
Customer Concentration25%2025view →
Employee Tender Offer$5.5BFeb 2026view →
Enterprise Market Share32%Jul 20253 pts
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Jul 202532%view →
Jul 202532%view →Failed source check
Dec 202418%view →
Equity Stake2.5%Feb 20263 pts
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Feb 20262.5%view →
Feb 202614%view →
Feb 20261.1%view →
Equity Value$57BFeb 20262 pts
As OfValueLink
Feb 2026$57Bview →
Feb 2026$67Bview →
Gross Margin63%Dec 20262 pts
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Dec 202663%view →
Dec 202540%view →
Headcount4,074Jan 20267 pts
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Jan 20264,074view →
Sep 20251,500–2,000view →Failed source check
Mar 20251,100–1,300view →
Sep 20241,035view →
Mar 2024600view →
Jun 2023200–300view →
2022192view →
Infrastructure Investment$50B2026view →
Product Revenue$2.5BFeb 2026view →
Retention Rate88%2025view →
Revenue$19BMar 20269 pts
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Mar 2026$19Bview →
Feb 2026$14Bview →
Dec 2025$9Bview →
Oct 2025$7Bview →Failed source check
Aug 2025$5Bview →
Mar 2025$2Bview →
Jan 2025$1Bview →
Jun 2024$1Bview →
Dec 2023$100Mview →
Revenue Guidance$20BJan 2026view →
Secondary Market Valuation$595BMar 20262 pts
As OfValueLink
Mar 2026$595Bview →
Nov 2025$350Bview →
Total Funding Raised$67BFeb 20263 pts
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Feb 2026$67Bview →
Jul 2025$15Bview →
Oct 2023$4.4Bview →
Valuation$380BFeb 20267 pts
As OfValueLink
Feb 2026$380Bview →
Sep 2025$183Bview →Failed source check
Mar 2025$62Bview →
Feb 2024$18Bview →
May 2023$4.1Bview →
Apr 2022$4Bview →
May 2021$550Mview →Failed source check

Products & Usage

Business Customers300,000Oct 2025view →
Monthly Active Users18.9 millionMar 2025view →
Monthly API Calls25 billionDec 2025view →

Organization

CountryUnited Statesview →
Founded DateJan 2021view →
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA2 pts
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San Francisco, CAview →
San Franciscoview →

Safety & Research

AI Safety LevelASL-3 (Opus 4, Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6), ASL-2 (Sonnet, Haiku)Feb 20262 pts
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Feb 2026ASL-3 (Opus 4, Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6), ASL-2 (Sonnet, Haiku)view →
May 2025ASL-3 (Opus 4+), ASL-2 (Sonnet/Haiku)view →
Interpretability Team Size50Dec 2025view →
Safety Researchers265Dec 2025view →
Safety Staffing Ratio25%2025view →

People

Background

Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropicview →

General

Websitehttps://www.anthropic.com/view →

Divisions

8
NameDivisionTypeLeadStatusSourceNotesStartDateSource check
Economic Researchteampeter-mccroryactivelinkedin.comPeter McCrory serves as Head of Economics at Anthropic as confirmed on LinkedIn.Not checked
Frontier Red Teamteamlogan-grahamactivelogangraham.xyzLogan Graham co-founded the Frontier Red Team in 2022 and serves as its head.Not checked
AlignmentteamJan Leikeactivetechcrunch.comJan Leike hired as Alignment Science Lead in May 2024 after leaving OpenAI's Superalignment team.Not checked
AI Welfare Researchteamkyle-fishactive80000hours.orgKyle Fish is Anthropic's first full-time AI welfare researcher, founding and leading this research function.2024-01Not checked
Societal ImpactsteamDeep Ganguliactivedganguli.github.ioDeep Ganguli started and leads the Societal Impacts team at Anthropic.Not checked
InterpretabilityteamChris Olahactivetime.comChris Olah is the co-founder and de facto lead of Anthropic's Interpretability team, pioneering mechanistic interpretability research.2021-01Not checked
Trust and Safetyteamactiveanthropic.comNon-research operational team (publicly referred to as the "Safeguards team" in Anthropic's transparency reporting and Usage Policy) responsible for usage-policy enforcement, detection/monitoring, and user safety; reachable at usersafety@anthropic.com per Anthropic's Acceptable Use Policy.Not checked
Policy and Safeguardsteamactiveanthropic.comListed as one of Anthropic's research-adjacent teams on the Research page; AI policy research, government engagement, and model-safeguard operations.Not checked

Entity Assessments

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DimensionRatingEvidenceAssessorSource check
known-risksSelf-preservation behavior in testingClaude 3 Opus showed 12% alignment faking rate; Claude Opus 4 exhibited self-preservation actions in contrived test scenarios [Bank Info Security](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/models-strategically-lie-finds-anthropic-study-a-27136), [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/anthropic-ai-deception-risk)editorialNot checked
mission-alignmentPublic benefit corporation with safety governanceLong-Term Benefit Trust holds Class T stock with board voting power increasing from 1/5 directors (2023) to majority by 2027 [Harvard Law](https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/10/28/anthropic-long-term-benefit-trust/)editorialNot checked
safety-researchConstitutional AI, mechanistic interpretability, model welfareDictionary learning monitors ~10M neural features; 34M interpretable features identified via sparse autoencoders (2024); MIT Technology Review named interpretability work a 2026 Breakthrough Technology [Anthropic](https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticity/index.html), [MIT TR](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1130003/mechanistic-interpretability-ai-research-models-2026-breakthrough-technologies/)editorialNot checked
technical-capabilities80.9% on SWE-bench Verified (Nov 2025)Claude Opus 4.5 first model above 80% on SWE-bench Verified; 42% enterprise coding market share vs OpenAI's 21% [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5), [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/enterprises-prefer-anthropics-ai-models-over-anyone-elses-including-openais/)editorialNot checked

Entity Events

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TitleDateEventTypeDescriptionSignificanceSource check
Run-rate revenue reaches ~$19B2026-03milestoneReportedly targeting $20-26B annualized revenue for 2026, with bull-case projections reaching up to $70B by 2028.majorNot checked
Run-rate revenue reaches $14B2026-02milestonemajorNot checked
Run-rate revenue exceeds $9B2025-12milestonemajorNot checked
Annualized revenue $4B2025-07milestonemajorNot checked
Run-rate revenue ~$1B2024-12milestoneBeginning-of-2025 run-rate revenue figure reported as approximately $1B.majorNot checked
FTX invests ~$500M2022fundingFTX reportedly invested approximately $500M in Anthropic in 2022 according to multiple news accounts.majorNot checked
Series A led by Jaan Tallinn at $550M pre-money valuation2021fundingSkype co-founder Jaan Tallinn reportedly led the Series A. Dustin Moskovitz also participated in seed and Series A rounds.majorNot checked
Founded by 7 ex-OpenAI researchers2020-12foundingDario Amodei (CEO), Daniela Amodei (President), Chris Olah, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, and Sam McCandlish departed OpenAI over disagreement about scaling vs. alignment priorities.majorNot checked

Equity Positions

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HolderSourceNotesStakeSource check
Amazonreuters.com$10.75B invested; exact stake undisclosed; primary cloud partnerNot checked
Sam McCandlishchampsignal.comAlignment researcher; no publicly documented EA connections2%3%Not checked
Dustin Moskovitzbusinessmodelcanvastemplate.com$500M already in Good Ventures nonprofit vehicle0.8%2.5%Not checked
employee-equity-poolinvesting.comPledge rates vary: pre-2025 hires up to 50% with 3:1 match; post-2024 hires 25% with 1:1 match.12%18%Not checked
Daniela Amodeien.wikipedia.orgMarried to Holden Karnofsky (GiveWell co-founder)2%3%Not checked
Jared Kaplanen.wikipedia.orgScaling laws pioneer; safety-motivated co-founder; no documented EA pledge2%3%Not checked
Dario Amodeirevenuememo.comGWWC signatory; early GiveWell supporter2%3%Not checked
Jack Clarkrealtimebillionaires.deFormer OpenAI Policy Director; responsible AI advocate; EA-adjacent framing2%3%Not checked
Chris Olahrealtimebillionaires.deInterpretability pioneer; participated in EA events; safety-focused2%3%Not checked
series-g-institutionalanthropic.comGIC, Coatue, D.E. Shaw, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, MGXNot checked
Google / Alphabetcomputing.co.uk$3.3B invested across 3 rounds; no philanthropic pledge13%15%Not checked
Tom Brownrealtimebillionaires.deGPT-3 lead author; chose Anthropic's safety mission over other options2%3%Not checked
Jaan Tallinnaripaev.eeLed Series A; Skype co-founder; major AI safety funder0.6%1.7%Not checked
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