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Anthropic raises $124M Series A to build reliable, steerable AI systems
Anthropic announced a $124 million Series A round in May 2021, led by Jaan Tallinn with participation from Dustin Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt, and others. The company, founded by Dario and Daniela Amodei, plans to use the funding for computationally-intensive research into large-scale AI systems that are steerable, interpretable, and robust. The round represents Anthropic's founding-era capital raise, establishing its research agenda around AI safety, interpretability, and human feedback integration.
Anthropic Launches Claude for Small Business with Agentic Workflows and Third-Party Integrations
Anthropic has launched Claude for Small Business, a product offering 15 pre-built agentic workflows and integrations with tools including QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. The product runs through Claude Cowork and targets small business owners with tasks like payroll planning, monthly close, invoice chasing, and marketing campaign execution. Users approve actions before anything is sent, posted, or paid, addressing data security concerns cited by half of surveyed small business owners. The launch includes partnerships with Intuit, HubSpot, and Canva, and is framed as part of Anthropic's public benefit mission.
Anthropic raises $580M Series B to advance AI safety and interpretability research (2022)
Anthropic raised $580 million in a Series B round in April 2022, led by Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX, to fund large-scale infrastructure for AI safety research. The company, then ~40 people, outlined work on interpretability, steerability, and robustness of large language models. The round is historically notable both for Anthropic's early safety-focused mission and for the involvement of Sam Bankman-Fried, who was later convicted of fraud in the FTX collapse.
KPMG integrates Claude across 276,000-person workforce in global strategic alliance with Anthropic
KPMG has announced a global alliance with Anthropic to embed Claude across its entire workforce of 276,000+ employees and into its Digital Gateway client platform, with initial focus on tax and legal services. Claude will power new AI agent capabilities within Digital Gateway—built on Microsoft Azure—enabling KPMG professionals to build tax and compliance tools in minutes rather than weeks. Anthropic is naming KPMG a preferred partner for private equity deployments, including a new offering called KPMG Blaze that embeds Claude Code to modernize legacy IT systems in PE portfolio companies. The alliance also covers cybersecurity vulnerability detection and joint research with UT Austin on human-AI collaboration patterns.
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Vas Narasimhan to Board of Directors
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust has appointed Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis and physician-scientist, to Anthropic's Board of Directors. The appointment means Trust-appointed directors now constitute a majority of the Board, reinforcing the governance structure designed to balance commercial interests with Anthropic's public benefit mission. Narasimhan brings experience overseeing regulatory approval of over 35 novel medicines and is expected to contribute perspective on deploying powerful technology safely at scale, particularly in healthcare and life sciences.
Rahul Patil Joins Anthropic as Chief Technology Officer
Anthropic has appointed Rahul Patil as its new Chief Technology Officer, where he will oversee engineering across product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security. Patil previously served as CTO of Stripe and held senior engineering roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The appointment is framed around scaling Claude to serve Anthropic's 300,000+ enterprise customers. Co-founder Sam McCandlish transitions from CTO to Chief Architect, deepening focus on large-scale model training, pretraining, and RL infrastructure.
Chris Liddell Appointed to Anthropic's Board of Directors
Anthropic has appointed Chris Liddell to its Board of Directors, adding a figure with senior leadership experience at Microsoft, General Motors, and the Trump White House. Liddell joins existing board members Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Jay Kreps, and Reed Hastings. The appointment is framed around governance expertise for transformative technology, consistent with Anthropic's Public Benefit Corporation structure. Liddell currently also serves on the boards of Commonwealth Fusion Systems and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar appointed to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust has appointed Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court Justice and current Carnegie Endowment for International Peace president, as a new member. Cuéllar brings expertise in law, governance, and international affairs, including co-leading California's Working Group on AI Frontier Models alongside Fei-Fei Li. The announcement also notes the departure of founding trustees Kanika Bahl and Zachary Robinson, who helped establish the Trust's governance role since 2023. The LTBT is an independent body with no financial stake in Anthropic that selects board members and advises on maximizing AI benefits while mitigating risks.
Anthropic Launches 'Labs' Team to Incubate Experimental AI Products
Anthropic is formalizing and expanding 'Labs,' an internal team dedicated to incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities. Mike Krieger (Instagram co-founder, former Anthropic CPO) is joining Labs alongside Ben Mann, while Ami Vora takes over as head of the Product organization. The announcement cites Claude Code, MCP, and Cowork as products that emerged from this experimental approach, and signals a structural reorganization to separate frontier experimentation from scaling established products.
Anthropic appoints Paul Smith as first Chief Commercial Officer
Anthropic will appoint Paul Smith as its first Chief Commercial Officer, with the role to begin later in 2025. Smith brings over 30 years of enterprise go-to-market experience from Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. The announcement coincides with Anthropic citing strong enterprise growth metrics, including hundreds of thousands of active API customers and Claude Code recurring revenue growing over 5x in two months.
Anthropic and Menlo Ventures launch $100M Anthology Fund for AI startups
Anthropic has partnered with Menlo Ventures to launch the Anthology Fund, a $100 million initiative financed by Menlo to support startups building on Anthropic technology. Target investment areas include AI infrastructure, healthcare, education, scientific research, consumer AI, and trust and safety tooling. Backed startups receive access to Anthropic products, $25,000 in model credits, and venture support from Menlo. The fund represents Anthropic's effort to expand its ecosystem and accelerate adoption of Claude-based applications.
Anthropic appoints Guillaume Princen as Head of EMEA, plans 100+ new European hires
Anthropic has named Guillaume Princen as its Head of EMEA, bringing in a former Stripe European expansion leader and ex-CEO of Mooncard. The company plans to hire over 100 people across sales, engineering, research, and operations, primarily in Dublin and London, building on an existing Zurich research office. The move signals a deliberate push to capture European enterprise and startup demand for Claude.
Reed Hastings appointed to Anthropic's board of directors
Anthropic announced that Reed Hastings, Netflix co-founder and former CEO, has been appointed to its board of directors by the Long Term Benefit Trust. Hastings brings prior board experience at Facebook, Microsoft, and Bloomberg, and has recently made a $50M gift to Bowdoin College for an AI and Humanity research initiative. The appointment signals Anthropic's effort to build governance expertise around AI's societal impact as the company moves toward a potential IPO.
Jay Kreps appointed to Anthropic's Board of Directors
Anthropic has appointed Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent, to its Board of Directors, effective May 29, 2024. Kreps was appointed by Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust and brings expertise in data infrastructure and enterprise software scaling. Separately, Luke Muehlhauser is stepping down from the board to focus on his work at Open Philanthropy.
Krishna Rao joins Anthropic as Chief Financial Officer
Anthropic has appointed Krishna Rao as its Chief Financial Officer, effective May 21, 2024. Rao brings nearly 20 years of finance leadership experience from roles at Fanatics Commerce, Cedar, and Airbnb, where he helped navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and led over $10 billion in capital raises including Airbnb's IPO. The hire signals Anthropic's focus on scaling financial operations to support enterprise growth and international expansion.