Dario Amodei
Unicorn founderCo-founder & CEO at Anthropic · VP of Research at OpenAI
San Francisco, CA
FoundedAnthropic$965B
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About
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 · 92
3Comma CapitalLisbon7BC Venture CapitalSan FranciscoA.Capital VenturesSan FranciscoAccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checksAlkeon InnovationNew YorkAllen Institute for AI (AI2) IncubatorSeattle · $100K – $600K checksAlpha Wave GlobalMiamiAlphabetMountain ViewAltimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2025Altra VentureNew York City · $500K – $25M checksArtisanal VenturesTiburonAser VenturesLondonAurum Venture PartnersPleasantonAvenir Growth CapitalNew YorkBaillie GiffordEdinburgh · since 2025Bessemer Venture PartnersRedwood City · $5M – $100M checksBeyond Earth VenturesWilmington · $500K – $2M checksBlackstonesince 2025Brighter CapitalCupertino · $25K – $100K checksBuilders + BackersCapital GroupLos Angeles · since 2026Cisco InvestmentsSan JoseCoatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2026Cold Start VenturesNew YorkCross Creek AdvisorsSalt Lake CityDnx VenturesTokyo · $1M – $5M checksDragoneer Investment GroupSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checksDST GlobalGeorge Town, Grand Cayman · $100K – $200M checks · since 2026Emerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checksEverybody Ventures$100K checksFactorial FundsSan FranciscoFidelity InvestmentsBoston · since 2025Firestreak VenturesFounders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks · since 2026FriedomMiami BeachGaldana VenturesBarcelonaGeneral AtlanticNew York · $10M – $1B checks · since 2025General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2025Gestio CapitalLondonGICSingapore · since 2025Goose Valley VenturesStockholm · $870K checksGreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks · since 2026Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checksHOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checksICONIQSan Francisco · since 2025ICONIQ CapitalSan Francisco · $5M – $100M checksIndex VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checksInsight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2025Integra GroupeMenlo Park · $100K – $200K checksIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checksKaleida CapitalSan DiegoKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checksLakeside CapitalTampa · $100K – $250K checksLaunchBay CapitalLondonLG Technology VenturesSanta ClaraLightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2025LIONHEART VENTURESSan FranciscoMadrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checksManhattan WestLos AngelesMastrySan FranciscoMech VenturesLas VegasMenlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checksMentha PartnersMetaplanetTallinn · $500K – $10M checksMoonshots CapitalAustin · $5K – $2.5M checksMorrison Seger Venture Capital PartnersDallasMyAsiaVCSeattleNotable CapitalSilicon Valley · $5M – $50M checksNTT Venture CapitalMenlo ParkNVIDIASanta ClaraOssian CapitalPoint NineBerlin · $1M – $10M checksQatar Investment AuthorityDoha · since 2025Qualcomm VenturesSan Diego · $5M checksRapid ScaleLas VegasRiverbend CapitalWashingtonRogue Insight CapitalMarkhamSamsung Catalyst FundSan JoseSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2026Soma CapitalSacramento · $100K – $300K checksSound VenturesSanta MonicaSpark CapitalSan Francisco · $500K – $25M checksSquareOne CapitalMiamiSV AngelSan FranciscoT. Rowe PriceBaltimore · since 2025Touring CapitalSan FranciscoTowerBrookLondonTPGSan Francisco · since 2025Type One VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checksValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark CityWAGMI VenturesWealthUnion$10K checks
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Co-founders at Anthropic
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Daniela AmodeiCo-founder & President
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Tom BrownCo-founder
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Jack ClarkCo-founder & Head of Policy
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Jared KaplanCo-founder & Chief Science Officer
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Chris OlahCo-founder & Interpretability Research Lead
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Sam McCandlishCo-founder & Chief Architect
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Benjamin MannFounder
VP of Research at OpenAI
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OpenAI's investors · 61
A.Capital VenturesSan FranciscoA'Z AngelsLos GatosAdvent InternationalBoston · $1.1B checksAlpha Wave GlobalMiamiAltimeter CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $25M checks · since 2026Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checksAntiSan Juan · $250K – $30M checksBedrockLos Angeles · $5M – $30M checksboldstart venturesMiami · $1M – $3M checksCoatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checksCosmic Venture PartnersAustin · $100K – $5M checksDragoneer Investment GroupSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025Eastlink Capital PartnersMenlo Park · $100K – $5M checksEmerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checksEverybody Ventures$100K checksFelicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checksFirestreak VenturesFounders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checksFrontier VenturesCupertino · $100K – $5M checksGaldana VenturesBarcelonaGestio CapitalLondonGlynn Capital ManagementMenlo ParkGreylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checksHOF CapitalNew York · $25K – $15M checksICONIQSan FranciscoIneffable VenturesStamfordKaleida CapitalSan DiegoKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checksLakeside CapitalTampa · $100K – $250K checksMadrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checksMastrySan FranciscoMaverick VenturesSan Francisco · $3M – $10M checksMech VenturesLas VegasMGXAbu Dhabi · since 2025Next Legacy PartnersPortola ValleyNVIDIASanta ClaraOssian CapitalPeter ThielRiverbend CapitalWashingtonRosecliff VenturesNew York City · $500K checksSanctor CapitalNew YorkSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checksSGH CapitalParisSoftBank GroupTokyoSoftBank Vision FundLondonSoma CapitalSacramento · $100K – $300K checksSound VenturesSanta MonicaSparkLabs KoreaPalo AltoSquareOne CapitalMiamiStack CapitalTorontoStandard CapitalSan FranciscoSV AngelSan FranciscoT. Rowe PriceBaltimore · since 2025Thrive CapitalNew York · $500K – $25M checks · since 2025Touring CapitalSan FranciscoType One VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checksValkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark CityVU Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $200K – $1M checksWAGMI VenturesWealthUnion$10K checksXYZ Venture CapitalSan Francisco · $10K – $5M checks
Co-founders at OpenAI
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Sam AltmanCo-founder & CEO
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Elon MuskCo-founder & former Co-chair / board member
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Greg BrockmanCo-founder & President
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Ilya SutskeverCo-founder & Chief Scientist
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Wojciech ZarembaCo-founder
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John SchulmanCo-founder (departed 2024)
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Andrej KarpathyCo-founder
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Trevor BlackwellCo-founder
Experience
- AnthropicCEO and Co-Foundercurrent2021 — present
- OpenAIVice President of Research2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- OpenAIResearch Director2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- OpenAITeam Lead for AI Safety2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleSenior Research Scientist2015 — 2016Mountain View
- Baidu, Inc.Research Scientist2014 — 2015Sunnyvale
- Skyline Targeted Proteomics EnvironmentSoftware Developer (part-time)2013 — 2014
- Stanford UniversityPostdoctoral Scholar2011 — 2014
- Applied MindsConsulant2008 — 2013
- Princeton UniversityPhD Student in Computational Neuroscience2006 — 2011
- SchlumbergerGeophysicist2004
- Applied MindsResearch Intern2003
Skills & more
Matlab5Python6LaTeX1C#1Physics3Algorithms5Machine Learning6Simulations1Bioinformatics5Mathematical Modeling1
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- 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 "Dario Amodei — We are near the end of the exponential", "Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity", "Dario Amodei — $10 Billion Models, OpenAI, Scaling, & AGI in 2 years".
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