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Dario Amodei

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Co-founder & CEO at Anthropic · VP of Research at OpenAI

San Francisco, CA

FoundedAnthropic$965B

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Dario Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 and built it into one of the world's two leading frontier AI labs: its May 2026 Series H raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, and the company filed confidentially for an IPO days later. A Princeton biophysics PhD (Hertz Fellow) who detoured through Baidu's Deep Speech team and Google Brain, he led research at OpenAI as VP of Research through GPT-2 and GPT-3, co-invented reinforcement learning from human feedback, and wrote the field's defining safety essays — Concrete Problems in AI Safety, Machines of Loving Grace, and The Adolescence of Technology. He runs Anthropic with his sister Daniela, its President.

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Beyond investing

Founded
Co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela and a group of former senior OpenAI researchers.
Education
Started in physics at Caltech, finished his BS at Stanford, then took a Princeton PhD in biophysics before a Stanford Medicine postdoc.
Awards
Hertz Foundation Fellow (2007) and winner of the Hertz Thesis Prize (2011) for his Princeton doctoral work on neural-circuit electrophysiology. Named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People in both 2025 and 2026.
Family
Runs Anthropic with his sister Daniela Amodei, the company's President; son of an Italian leather craftsman and a library project manager.
More
Co-inventor of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and lead author of Concrete Problems in AI Safety. Author of the essays Machines of Loving Grace (2024) and The Adolescence of Technology (2026).

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Co-founder & CEO at Anthropic

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Anthropic's investors · 131

3Comma CapitalLisbon7BC Venture CapitalSan Francisco7GC & CoLos Angeles · since 2023A.Capital VenturesSan FranciscoAccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks · since 2026AdditionNew York · $1M – $500M checks · since 2026Alkeon InnovationNew YorkAllen Institute for AI (AI2) IncubatorSeattle · $100K – $600K checksAlpha FundsOdessaAlpha Square GroupNew YorkAlpha Wave GlobalMiami · since 2026AlphabetMountain ViewAltimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2025Altra VentureNew York City · $500K – $25M checksArtisanal VenturesTiburonAser VenturesLondonAurum Venture PartnersPleasantonAvenir Growth CapitalNew YorkBaillie GiffordEdinburgh · since 2025Bas1s VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $5M – $100M checks · since 2025Beyond Earth VenturesWilmington · $500K – $2M checksBlackstonesince 2025Brighter CapitalCupertino · $25K – $100K checksBuckhill CapitalSan FranciscoBuilders + BackersCapital GroupLos Angeles · since 2026Chaifetz GroupChicagoCisco InvestmentsSan Jose · since 2025Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2026Cold Start VenturesNew YorkCollective LiquidityPlantationConexo VenturesBostonCross Creek AdvisorsSalt Lake CityDnx VenturesTokyo · $1M – $5M checksDragon CapitalFremontDragoneer Investment GroupSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2026DST GlobalGeorge Town, Grand Cayman · $100K – $200M checks · since 2026East West Ventures EWVLos AngelesElad GilSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checksEmerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checksEQUIAMSan Francisco · $1M – $10M checksEverybody Ventures$100K checksFactorial FundsSan FranciscoFidelity InvestmentsBoston · since 2025Firestreak VenturesFounders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks · since 2026FriedomMiami BeachFTX Fundsince 2022G SquaredChicagoGaldana VenturesBarcelonaGeneral AtlanticNew York · $10M – $1B checks · since 2025General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2025Gestio CapitalLondonGICSingapore · since 2025Goose Valley VenturesStockholm · $870K checksGranada FundsParamus · $150K – $400K checksGreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks · since 2026Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks · since 2025HOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checksICONIQSan Francisco · since 2025ICONIQ CapitalSan Francisco · $5M – $100M checks · since 2025Inception Fund$110K – $1.1M checksIndex VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checksInsight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2025Integra GroupeMenlo Park · $100K – $200K checksInvesdorBerlinIronArc VenturesAustinIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checksKaleida CapitalSan DiegoKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checksLakeside CapitalTampa · $100K – $250K checks · since 2024LaunchBay CapitalLondonLevel2 VenturesAmsterdam · $200K – $5.4M checksLG Technology VenturesSilicon ValleyLightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2025LIONHEART VENTURESSan FranciscoM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Seattle · $100K – $10M checks · since 2025Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checksManhattan Venture PartnersNew YorkManhattan WestLos AngelesMarketX VenturesMastrySan FranciscoMech VenturesLas VegasMenlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checks · since 2026Mentha PartnersMetaplanetTallinn · $500K – $10M checksMGXAbu Dhabi · since 2025Moonshots CapitalAustin · $5K – $2.5M checksMorrison Seger Venture Capital PartnersDallasMyAsiaVCSeattleNotable CapitalSilicon Valley · $5M – $50M checksNTT Venture CapitalMenlo ParkNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2025Original CapitalMiamiOssian CapitalMiamiOurCrowdJerusalem · $604K – $65M checksPioneerToronto, OntarioPoint NineBerlin · $1M – $10M checksQatar Investment AuthorityDoha · since 2025Qualcomm VenturesSan Diego · $5M checksRapid ScaleLas VegasRiverbend CapitalWashingtonRogue Insight CapitalMarkhamS VenturesMountain View · $1M – $5M checksSalesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks · since 2025Samsung Catalyst FundSan JoseSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2026Seven Seven SixPalm Beach Gardens · $500K – $5M checksSk Telecom Venture Capital, LlcSanta ClaraSoma CapitalSacramento · $100K – $300K checksSound VenturesSanta MonicaSouth Park CommonsSan Francisco · $1M – $10M checksSpark CapitalSan Francisco · $500K – $25M checks · since 2023SquareOne CapitalMiamiStratMindsSan FranciscoSV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checksT. Rowe PriceBaltimore · since 2025Teachers' Venture GrowthToronto · $50M – $250M checksTemasekSingapore · since 2026ThirdbaseNew YorkTouring CapitalSan FranciscoTowerBrookLondon · since 2026TPGSan Francisco · since 2025Type One VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checksValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark CityVaranium Capital AdvisorsMumbaiVentioneers CapitalOakvilleWAGMI VenturesWealthUnion$10K checksWeisburd CapitalNew York

Co-founders at Anthropic

DADaniela Amodei
Daniela AmodeiCo-founder & President
TBTom Brown
Tom BrownCo-founder
JCJack Clark
Jack ClarkCo-founder & Head of Policy
JKJared Kaplan
Jared KaplanCo-founder & Chief Science Officer
COChris Olah
Chris OlahCo-founder & Interpretability Research Lead
SMSam McCandlish
Sam McCandlishCo-founder & Chief Architect
BMBenjamin Mann
Benjamin MannFounder

VP of Research at OpenAI

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OpenAI's investors · 93

7BC Venture CapitalSan FranciscoA-Rod CorpMiamiA.Capital VenturesSan FranciscoA'Z AngelsLos GatosAdvent InternationalBoston · $1.1B checksAlpha FundsOdessaAlpha Wave GlobalMiamiAltimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2026Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2026AntiSan Juan · $250K – $30M checksB Capital GroupSan Francisco · $10M – $50M checksBanca Investis — Family OfficeMilanBedrockLos Angeles · $5M – $30M checksBlackstonesince 2026boldstart venturesMiami · $1M – $3M checksBond Capital ManagementSan Francisco · $100K – $25M checksBright Pixel CapitalMaiaCats.vcVilnius · $200K – $500K checksCoatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2025Cosmic Venture PartnersAustin · $100K – $5M checksDragoneer Investment GroupSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025Eastlink Capital PartnersMenlo Park · $100K – $5M checksElad GilSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checksEmerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checksEverybody Ventures$100K checksExpedite VenturesBerlin · since 2024Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checksFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcPalo AltoFirestreak VenturesFounders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checksFrontier VenturesCupertino · $100K – $5M checksGaldana VenturesBarcelonaGestio CapitalLondonGlynn Capital ManagementMenlo ParkGreylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checksGroveStreetNewtonHOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checksICONIQSan FranciscoIneffable VenturesStamfordInsight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2026Kaleida CapitalSan DiegoKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checksLakeside CapitalTampa · $100K – $250K checks · since 2024M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Seattle · $100K – $10M checks · since 2019Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checksMarketX VenturesMastrySan FranciscoMaverick VenturesSan Francisco · $3M – $10M checksMech VenturesLas VegasMGXAbu Dhabi · since 2025Nearingpoint Venture Partners Inc.TorontoNext Legacy PartnersPortola ValleyNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2024Optic Capital$100K – $1M checksOptimist VenturesNew YorkOssian CapitalMiamiPeter Thielsince 2015Redpoint VenturesWoodside · $100K – $10M checksRiverbend CapitalWashingtonRosecliff VenturesNew York City · $500K checksSam Altmansince 2015Sanctor CapitalNew YorkSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2026SGH CapitalParisSoftBank GroupTokyo · since 2025SoftBank Vision FundLondonSoma CapitalSacramento · $100K – $300K checksSound VenturesSanta Monica · since 2026SparkLabs KoreaPalo AltoSquareOne CapitalMiamiStack CapitalTorontoStandard CapitalSan FranciscoStripesNew YorkSV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checksT. Rowe PriceBaltimore · since 2025TemasekSingapore · since 2026ThirdbaseNew YorkThrive CapitalNew York · $500K – $25M checks · since 2025Tiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checks · since 2024Touring CapitalSan FranciscoTPGSan Francisco · since 2026Type One VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checksUncorrelated VenturesLas VegasValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark CityVaranium Capital AdvisorsMumbaiVU Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $200K – $1M checksWAGMI VenturesWealthUnion$10K checksWinslow CapitalMinneapolis · since 2026Wisdom VenturesLos GatosXYZ Venture CapitalSan Francisco · $10K – $5M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checksZ-FellowsNew York · $10K checks

Co-founders at OpenAI

SASam Altman
Sam AltmanCo-founder & CEO
EMElon Musk
Elon MuskCo-founder & former Co-chair / board member
GBGreg Brockman
Greg BrockmanCo-founder & President
ISIlya Sutskever
Ilya SutskeverCo-founder & Chief Scientist
WZWojciech Zaremba
Wojciech ZarembaCo-founder
JSJohn Schulman
John SchulmanCo-founder (departed 2024)
AKAndrej Karpathy
Andrej KarpathyCo-founder
TBTrevor Blackwell
Trevor BlackwellCo-founder

Experience

  1. AnthropicCEO and Co-Foundercurrent2021 — present
  2. OpenAIVice President of Research2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  3. OpenAIResearch Director2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  4. OpenAITeam Lead for AI Safety2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  5. GoogleSenior Research Scientist2015 — 2016Mountain View
  6. Baidu, Inc.Research Scientist2014 — 2015Sunnyvale
  7. Skyline Targeted Proteomics EnvironmentSoftware Developer (part-time)2013 — 2014
  8. Stanford UniversityPostdoctoral Scholar2011 — 2014
  9. Applied MindsConsulant2008 — 2013
  10. Princeton UniversityPhD Student in Computational Neuroscience2006 — 2011
  11. SchlumbergerGeophysicist2004
  12. Applied MindsResearch Intern2003

Skills & more

Matlab5Python6LaTeX1C#1Physics3Algorithms5Machine Learning6Simulations1Bioinformatics5Mathematical Modeling1

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Podcasts & interviews

featuring Dario Amodei

WATCH NOW: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Warns UN Security Council of AI Risks to Humanity | AI15

DWS News

Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | Full documentary | 4K

Moconomy

Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | The Circuit | Extended Interview

Bloomberg Originals

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Future of AI

Bloomberg Tech

Dario Amodei — We are near the end of the exponential

Dwarkesh Podcast · dwarkesh.com

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism

Alex Kantrowitz

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Dario Amodei?
Dario Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 and built it into one of the world's two leading frontier AI labs: its May 2026 Series H raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, and the company filed confidentially for an IPO days later. A Princeton biophysics PhD (Hertz Fellow) who detoured through Baidu's Deep Speech team and Google Brain, he led research at OpenAI as VP of Research through GPT-2 and GPT-3, co-invented reinforcement learning from human feedback, and wrote the field's defining safety essays — Concrete Problems in AI Safety, Machines of Loving Grace, and The Adolescence of Technology. He runs Anthropic with his sister Daniela, its President.
Where does Dario Amodei work?
Dario Amodei is Co-founder & CEO of Anthropic and VP of Research at OpenAI.
What companies did Dario Amodei found?
Dario Amodei founded Anthropic.
Where did Dario Amodei go to school?
Dario Amodei studied at Princeton University (PhD, (Bio)physics); Stanford University (BS, Physics); Caltech (Progress towards BS, Physics).
What awards has Dario Amodei received?
Hertz Foundation Fellow (2007) and winner of the Hertz Thesis Prize (2011) for his Princeton doctoral work on neural-circuit electrophysiology. Named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People in both 2025 and 2026.
What podcasts and interviews feature Dario Amodei?
Tracked appearances include "WATCH NOW: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Warns UN Security Council of AI Risks to Humanity | AI15", "Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | Full documentary | 4K", "Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | The Circuit | Extended Interview", and 6 more.

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