Where does Daniela Amodei work?

Daniela Amodei is at Notable Capital and Co-founder & President at Anthropic and VP of People, then VP of Safety and Policy at OpenAI and Early employee — Risk Manager at Stripe.

What companies did Daniela Amodei found?

Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe.

Daniela Amodei

InvestorUnicorn founder

Investor at Notable Capital · Co-founder & President at Anthropic · VP of People, then VP of Safety and Policy at OpenAI · Early employee — Risk Manager at Stripe

San Francisco, CA

FoundedAnthropic$965B OpenAI Stripe · YC

About

Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 and, as President, runs the operations, policy, and go-to-market of a company valued at $965 billion after its May 2026 Series H. An English-literature graduate of UC Santa Cruz who began in global health and a congressional campaign, she joined Stripe early in 2013 to build its risk and recruiting functions through hypergrowth, then ran people and safety-and-policy teams at OpenAI through the GPT-2 and GPT-3 era. She co-founded Anthropic with her brother Dario, its CEO, and is one of tech's most prominent voices for why humanities training matters in the AI era.

Beyond investing

Founded: Co-founded Anthropic in 2021 and serves as President, running operations, policy, and go-to-market.
Communities: Began her career in global health and development — the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland and the Ugandan NGO Conservation Through Public Health.
Awards: Named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023, alongside her brother.
Hobbies: Studied classical flute on scholarship before pivoting to English literature.
Family: Sibling co-founder: her brother Dario Amodei is Anthropic's CEO. Married to Holden Karnofsky, co-founder of Open Philanthropy, since 2017.
More: Early Stripe employee (2013–2018), building risk and recruiting during hypergrowth. Argues publicly that humanities training is 'more important than ever' in the AI era, and shapes Anthropic hiring accordingly.

Mentioned above: the Stripe mafia →

From Daniela's own website — common ground for a warm intro.

Co-founder & President at Anthropic

Intro paths

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In turn, Daniela can intro founders to Anthropic's investors below.

Anthropic's investors · 93

3Comma CapitalLisbon 7BC Venture CapitalSan Francisco A.Capital VenturesSan Francisco AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks Alkeon InnovationNew York Allen Institute for AI (AI2) IncubatorSeattle · $100K – $600K checks Alpha Wave GlobalMiami AlphabetMountain View Altimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2025 Altra VentureNew York City · $500K – $25M checks Artisanal VenturesTiburon Aser VenturesLondon Aurum Venture PartnersPleasanton Avenir Growth CapitalNew York B CapitalGeneva Baillie GiffordEdinburgh · since 2025 Bessemer Venture PartnersRedwood City · $5M – $100M checks Beyond Earth VenturesWilmington · $500K – $2M checks Blackstonesince 2025 Brighter CapitalCupertino · $25K – $100K checks Builders + Backers Capital GroupLos Angeles · since 2026 Cisco InvestmentsSan Jose Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2026 Cold Start VenturesNew York Cross Creek AdvisorsSalt Lake City Dnx VenturesTokyo · $1M – $5M checks Dragoneer Investment GroupSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks DST GlobalGeorge Town, Grand Cayman · $100K – $200M checks · since 2026 Emerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checks Everybody Ventures$100K checks Factorial FundsSan Francisco Fidelity InvestmentsBoston · since 2025 Firestreak Ventures Founders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks · since 2026 FriedomMiami Beach Galdana VenturesBarcelona General AtlanticNew York · $10M – $1B checks · since 2025 General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2025 Gestio CapitalLondon GICSingapore · since 2025 Goose Valley VenturesStockholm · $870K checks GreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks · since 2026 Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks HOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checks ICONIQSan Francisco · since 2025 ICONIQ CapitalSan Francisco · $5M – $100M checks Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks Insight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2025 Integra GroupeMenlo Park · $100K – $200K checks IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checks Kaleida CapitalSan Diego Kleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks Lakeside CapitalTampa · $100K – $250K checks LaunchBay CapitalLondon LG Technology VenturesSanta Clara Lightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2025 LIONHEART VENTURESSan Francisco Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checks Manhattan WestLos Angeles MastrySan Francisco Mech VenturesLas Vegas Menlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checks Mentha Partners MetaplanetTallinn · $500K – $10M checks Moonshots CapitalAustin · $5K – $2.5M checks Morrison Seger Venture Capital PartnersDallas MyAsiaVCSeattle Notable CapitalSilicon Valley · $5M – $50M checks NTT Venture CapitalMenlo Park NVIDIASanta Clara Ossian Capital Point NineBerlin · $1M – $10M checks Qatar Investment AuthorityDoha · since 2025 Qualcomm VenturesSan Diego · $5M checks Rapid ScaleLas Vegas Riverbend CapitalWashington Rogue Insight CapitalMarkham Samsung Catalyst FundSan Jose Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2026 Soma CapitalSacramento · $100K – $300K checks Sound VenturesSanta Monica Spark CapitalSan Francisco · $500K – $25M checks SquareOne CapitalMiami SV AngelSan Francisco T. Rowe PriceBaltimore · since 2025 Touring CapitalSan Francisco TowerBrookLondon TPGSan Francisco · since 2025 Type One VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checks Valkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark City WAGMI Ventures WealthUnion$10K checks

Co-founders at Anthropic

Dario AmodeiCo-founder & CEO

Tom BrownCo-founder

Jack ClarkCo-founder & Head of Policy

Jared KaplanCo-founder & Chief Science Officer

Chris OlahCo-founder & Interpretability Research Lead

Sam McCandlishCo-founder & Chief Architect

Ben MannCo-founder

Benjamin MannFounder

VP of People, then VP of Safety and Policy at OpenAI

Intro paths

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In turn, Daniela can intro founders to OpenAI's investors below.

OpenAI's investors · 61

A.Capital VenturesSan Francisco A'Z AngelsLos Gatos Advent InternationalBoston · $1.1B checks Alpha Wave GlobalMiami Altimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2026 Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks AntiSan Juan · $250K – $30M checks BedrockLos Angeles · $5M – $30M checks boldstart venturesMiami · $1M – $3M checks Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks Cosmic Venture PartnersAustin · $100K – $5M checks Dragoneer Investment GroupSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025 Eastlink Capital PartnersMenlo Park · $100K – $5M checks Emerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checks Everybody Ventures$100K checks Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks Firestreak Ventures Founders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks Frontier VenturesCupertino · $100K – $5M checks Galdana VenturesBarcelona Gestio CapitalLondon Glynn Capital ManagementMenlo Park Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks HOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checks ICONIQSan Francisco Ineffable VenturesStamford Kaleida CapitalSan Diego Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks Lakeside CapitalTampa · $100K – $250K checks Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checks MastrySan Francisco Maverick VenturesSan Francisco · $3M – $10M checks Mech VenturesLas Vegas MGXAbu Dhabi · since 2025 Next Legacy PartnersPortola Valley NVIDIASanta Clara Ossian Capital Peter Thiel Riverbend CapitalWashington Rosecliff VenturesNew York City · $500K checks Sanctor CapitalNew York Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks SGH CapitalParis SoftBank GroupTokyo SoftBank Vision FundLondon Soma CapitalSacramento · $100K – $300K checks Sound VenturesSanta Monica SparkLabs KoreaPalo Alto SquareOne CapitalMiami Stack CapitalToronto Standard CapitalSan Francisco SV AngelSan Francisco T. Rowe PriceBaltimore · since 2025 Thrive CapitalNew York · $500K – $25M checks · since 2025 Touring CapitalSan Francisco Type One VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checks Valkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark City VU Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $200K – $1M checks WAGMI Ventures WealthUnion$10K checks XYZ Venture CapitalSan Francisco · $10K – $5M checks

Co-founders at OpenAI

Sam AltmanCo-founder & CEO

Elon MuskCo-founder & former Co-chair / board member

Greg BrockmanCo-founder & President

Ilya SutskeverCo-founder & Chief Scientist

Wojciech ZarembaCo-founder

John SchulmanCo-founder (departed 2024)

Andrej KarpathyCo-founder

Trevor BlackwellCo-founder

Early employee — Risk Manager at Stripe YC S09

Intro paths

Daniela went through Y Combinator (Summer 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Daniela can intro founders to Stripe's investors below.

Stripe's investors · 62

500 GlobalSan Francisco · $150K checks · since 2014 Aglae VenturesParis · $108K – $5.4M checks Air Street CapitalSt. Peter Port · $500K – $10M checks Alkeon InnovationNew York Altos VenturesBurlingame · $1M – $3M checks AlvenParis Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2026 AtomicoLondon Base PartnersSão Paulo BoxGroupNew York · $1M checks CapitalGSan Francisco · $50M – $100M checks Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks Designer FundSan Francisco · $100K – $1M checks Dria VenturesNew York Emerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checks Entrée CapitalTel Aviv · $150K – $15M checks Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks Firestreak Ventures Founders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks Fourth RealmMenlo Park Galdana VenturesBarcelona General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks Glade Brook Capital PartnersGreenwich Glynn Capital ManagementMenlo Park Golden Gate VenturesSingapore · $473K – $60M checks Goose Valley VenturesStockholm · $870K checks Green Meadow VenturesWest Hollywood · $500K – $3M checks GreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks HeavybitSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks ICONIQSan Francisco Imaginary Venture CapitalNew York · $1M – $10M checks Interplay Ventures Early Stage Management LlcNew York · $1M checks InvestXVancouver JuniperoMiami Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks Kleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks Lowercase CapitalJackson Moment Ventures, LlcPalo Alto Night CapitalCapitola Notable CapitalSilicon Valley · $5M – $50M checks ParadigmSan Francisco · $1M – $100M checks Preston-Werner VenturesSan Francisco Bay Area · $500K – $3M checks Prime VenturesAmsterdam · $5.4M – $16.2M checks Redpoint VenturesWoodside · $100K – $10M checks SciFi VCSan Francisco · $100K – $1M checks Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2024 Sherpalo VenturesMenlo Park Sixth StreetSan Francisco · $50M – $2.5B checks South Quad Square Peg CapitalMelbourne SquareOneBerlin · $378K – $3.8M checks SquareOne CapitalMiami Standard CapitalSan Francisco SV AngelSan Francisco The Players' Impact Thrive CapitalNew York · $500K – $25M checks · since 2026 Union Square Ventures (USV)New York City · $1M – $8M checks VelocityBengaluru · $480K checks WAGMI Ventures WealthUnion$10K checks XYZ Venture CapitalSan Francisco · $10K – $5M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2009

Co-founders at Stripe

John CollisonCo-founder & President

Patrick CollisonCo-founder & CEO

Experience

AnthropicPresident and co-foundercurrent2020 — present
OpenAIVP of Safety and Policy2020
OpenAIEngineering Manager + VP of People2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
StripeRisk Manager: Core Operations, User Policy, and Underwriting2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
StripeRisk Program Manager2015 — 2016
StripeLead Technical Recruiter2013 — 2015
U.S. House of RepresentativesScheduling and Communications2013Washington D.C. Metro Area
Matt Cartwright for CongressField Director2012Scranton, Pennsylvania Area
Matt Cartwright for CongressDeputy Field Director2012Scranton, Pennsylvania Area
Conservation Through Public HealthFellow2011 — 2012Kampala, Uganda
IRIS Center,University of Maryland,College ParkBusiness Development2010 — 2011Washington D.C. Metro Area

Education

University of California, Santa CruzBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Daniela Amodei

Daniela Amodei: AI Hurricane

Grit (Kleiner Perkins) · open.spotify.com

First Block: Interview with Daniela Amodei

Stripe First Block

Anthropic President Amodei on the Future of Claude

Bloomberg Technology

Colleagues at Notable Capital

Aaron Schwartz

Scout at GGV Capital

Adam Markowitz

Investor at GGV Capital

Al Ghous

Investor at Notable Capital

Alice Xu

Investor at Notable Capital

Bailey Dickey

Investor at Notable Capital

Ben Zabel

Investor at Notable Capital

Burkay Gur

Investor at GGV Capital

Cami Katz

Investor at Notable Capital

Frequently asked questions

Where does Daniela Amodei work?: Daniela Amodei is at Notable Capital and Co-founder & President at Anthropic and VP of People, then VP of Safety and Policy at OpenAI and Early employee — Risk Manager at Stripe.
What companies did Daniela Amodei found?: Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe.