Anthropic
Also known as Anthropic, PBC
American AI company and public benefit corporation that makes the Claude models.
Investors include Amazon, Google and 12 others. Run by Dario Amodei (CEO).
Investors
- AmazonOrganization
$8B in 2023–2024; $5B more in April 2026, with up to $20B more tied to milestones · since Sep 2023 4
- GoogleOrganization
about $3B before 2026; $10B cash in April 2026 at a $350B valuation, up to $30B more on performance targets · since 2023 5
- NvidiaOrganization
up to $10B · since Nov 2025 6
- MicrosoftOrganization
up to $5B · since Nov 2025 6
- AMD
announced in July 2026 it would invest up to $5B · since Jul 2026 1
9 more: Lightspeed Venture Partners, ICONIQ, Fidelity Investments…
- Lightspeed Venture Partners
led the $3.5B Series E; co-led the $13B Series F · since Mar 2025 1
- ICONIQ
co-led the $13B Series F · since Sep 2025 1
- Fidelity Investments
co-led the $13B Series F · since Sep 2025 1
- Qatar Investment Authority
took part in the $13B Series F · since Sep 2025 1
- Coatue
led a $10B round (term sheet, $350B valuation) · since Dec 2025 1
- GIC
led a $10B round (term sheet, $350B valuation) · since Dec 2025 1
- Altimeter Capital
in the $65B May 2026 round · since May 2026 1
- Dragoneer
in the $65B May 2026 round · since May 2026 1
- Sequoia Capital
in the $65B May 2026 round · since May 2026 1
Board
Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Reed Hastings (appointed by the Long-Term Benefit Trust), Chris Liddell, Vas Narasimhan 23
Before
Investors until Mar 2024
FTX ($500M of the $580M raised; the FTX estate sold the stake for $884M) 1
Founded by
- Dario Amodei
- Daniela Amodei
- Jared Kaplan
- Jack Clark
- Chris Olah
- Ben Mann
- Sam Mccandlish
- Tom Brown
Partners
- AmazonOrganization
AWS is the primary cloud provider; over $100B of AWS spend over a decade and up to 5 GW of Trainium capacity (April 2026) · since Sep 2023 4
- GoogleOrganization
Google Cloud TPUs: up to one million (October 2025), 5 GW over five years (April 2026) · since Oct 2025 5
- MicrosoftOrganization
$30B of Azure compute capacity · since Nov 2025 6
- NvidiaOrganization
up to 1 GW on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems · since Nov 2025 6
- xAIOrganization
use of xAI's Colossus 1 data center · since May 2026 1
- AMD
up to 2 GW of Instinct MI450 GPUs · since Jul 2026 1
- Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees.
- It is a public benefit corporation, privately held.
- Its Claude models are sold through apps, an API and cloud platforms.
- Amazon and Google are its largest strategic investors and compute suppliers.
- An independent Long-Term Benefit Trust selects some of its board members.
Why it matters
- One of the few labs building frontier AI models, and the maker of Claude and Claude Code.
- Founded
- 20211
- Headquarters
- 500 Howard Street, San Francisco, California1
- Legal form
- Public benefit corporation (Anthropic, PBC)2
- Ownership
- Privately held1
- Employees
- 2,500 (2026)1
- Alphabet's stake
- 14% equity stake (Alphabet's Wikipedia infobox)7
- Revenue
- US$65 billion (2026)1
- Latest valuation
- $965 billion (May 2026 round, $65 billion raised)1
Who owns and runs it
Investors include Amazon, Google and 12 others. Run by Dario Amodei (CEO).
Investors
- AmazonOrganization
$8B in 2023–2024; $5B more in April 2026, with up to $20B more tied to milestones · since Sep 2023 4
- GoogleOrganization
about $3B before 2026; $10B cash in April 2026 at a $350B valuation, up to $30B more on performance targets · since 2023 5
- NvidiaOrganization
up to $10B · since Nov 2025 6
- MicrosoftOrganization
up to $5B · since Nov 2025 6
- AMD
announced in July 2026 it would invest up to $5B · since Jul 2026 1
9 more: Lightspeed Venture Partners, ICONIQ, Fidelity Investments…
- Lightspeed Venture Partners
led the $3.5B Series E; co-led the $13B Series F · since Mar 2025 1
- ICONIQ
co-led the $13B Series F · since Sep 2025 1
- Fidelity Investments
co-led the $13B Series F · since Sep 2025 1
- Qatar Investment Authority
took part in the $13B Series F · since Sep 2025 1
- Coatue
led a $10B round (term sheet, $350B valuation) · since Dec 2025 1
- GIC
led a $10B round (term sheet, $350B valuation) · since Dec 2025 1
- Altimeter Capital
in the $65B May 2026 round · since May 2026 1
- Dragoneer
in the $65B May 2026 round · since May 2026 1
- Sequoia Capital
in the $65B May 2026 round · since May 2026 1
Board
Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Reed Hastings (appointed by the Long-Term Benefit Trust), Chris Liddell, Vas Narasimhan 23
Before
Investors until Mar 2024
FTX ($500M of the $580M raised; the FTX estate sold the stake for $884M) 1
Long-Term Benefit Trust
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What it does3
Independent body with no financial stake in Anthropic; it selects members of the board and advises the board and leadership.
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Neil Buddy Shah3
Trustee and chair of the Trust.
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Richard Fontaine2
Trustee.
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Ben Bernanke2
Trustee.
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Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar3
Joined the Trust.
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Kanika Bahl and Zachary Robinson3
Finished their terms as trustees.
Funding rounds
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Connections
Founded by
- Dario Amodei
- Daniela Amodei
- Jared Kaplan
- Jack Clark
- Chris Olah
- Ben Mann
- Sam Mccandlish
- Tom Brown
Partners
- AmazonOrganization
AWS is the primary cloud provider; over $100B of AWS spend over a decade and up to 5 GW of Trainium capacity (April 2026) · since Sep 2023 4
- GoogleOrganization
Google Cloud TPUs: up to one million (October 2025), 5 GW over five years (April 2026) · since Oct 2025 5
- MicrosoftOrganization
$30B of Azure compute capacity · since Nov 2025 6
- NvidiaOrganization
up to 1 GW on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems · since Nov 2025 6
- xAIOrganization
use of xAI's Colossus 1 data center · since May 2026 1
- AMD
up to 2 GW of Instinct MI450 GPUs · since Jul 2026 1
Links
Sources
- Anthropic (Wikipedia) (opens en.wikipedia.org)
- Company — Anthropic (opens anthropic.com)
- Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust (Anthropic, 2026-01-21) (opens anthropic.com)
- Amazon will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic in a broad deal (Engadget, 2026-04-20) (opens engadget.com)
- Google to invest $10 billion in Anthropic, may add $30 billion more (Business Today, 2026-04-24) (opens businesstoday.in)
- Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships (Anthropic, 2025-11-18) (opens anthropic.com)
- Alphabet Inc. (Wikipedia) (opens en.wikipedia.org)
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