yasmin-razavi-108ee3b1·2 events·first seen Aliases: Yasmin Razavi
Anthropic announced a $450 million Series C funding round led by Spark Capital, with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, and Zoom Ventures. Proceeds will fund expansion of Claude-based products, enterprise API growth, and AI safety research including alignment techniques. The announcement also highlights a 100K context window feature for Claude and notes Yasmin Razavi of Spark Capital joining the board. This is a historically significant funding round for a frontier safety-focused AI lab, though it predates the much larger rounds that followed.
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.