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Anthropic

anthropic.com · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·ANTHROPIC·26
StageSeries GFebruary 2026 · led by GIC[11][13][14][15][16]
Raisednot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Headcountnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2021[13][14][18]
Money

Series G closed February 2026, led by GIC.[11][13][14][15][16]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include GIC, Coatue, D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, Founders Fund, ICONIQ Capital, MGX, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, Spark Capital, Accel, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone, BlackRock, Temasek, TPG, Jane Street, Amazon.[11][12][13][14][15][16]

People

Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder[24][14][15][16][18][36]

Daniela Amodei, President and Co-Founder[24][14][15][16][18][36]

Jared Kaplan, Co-Founder[24][14][15][16][18][36]

Jack Clark, Co-Founder[24][14][15][16][18][36]

Chris Olah, Co-Founder[24][14][15][16][18][36]

Ben Mann, Co-Founder[24][14][15][16][18][36]

Sam McCandlish, Co-Founder[24][14][15][16][18][36]

Tom Brown, Co-Founder[24][14][15][16][18][36]

Rahul Patil, CTO[10][12][22][24][17][36]

Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer[10][12][22][24][17][36]

Krishna Rao, Chief Financial Officer[10][12][22][24][17][36]

Signals
Jul 24 2026launchIntroducing Opus 5[13]
Jun 30 2026launchIntroducing Sonnet 5[13]
Jun 30 2026launchAnnouncing Claude Science[13]
May 28 2026fundingAnthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO[10][22][11]
Feb 12 2026fundingAnthropic closes $30 billion funding round at $380 billion valuation[12][23]
Comps

OpenAI · openai.com · OpenAI is Anthropic's direct rival for frontier model capability, enterprise AI budgets, and fundraising; both are racing toward IPOs and competing on coding tools (Codex vs Claude Code).[10][12]

Google DeepMind · deepmind.google · Google is investing heavily in Gemini and competing with Anthropic for enterprise AI adoption and developer mindshare, with Google also a strategic investor in Anthropic.[12]

xAI · x.ai · xAI merged with SpaceX and is targeting a $2 trillion valuation in its pending IPO, competing with Anthropic and OpenAI for frontier AI leadership and capital.[10]

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Anthropic

CALL NO.CS·ANTHROPIC·26

anthropic.com · San Francisco

StageSeries G
Raisednot publicly disclosed
Headcountnot publicly disclosed
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2021
CompsOpenAI +2