Anthropic
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Anthropic is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Anthropic develops artificial intelligence tools and research initiatives focused on creating AI systems and models for business and research use. The company produces the Claude family of AI products, including conversational and coding assistants, integrations with productivity applications, and developer APIs that organizations can deploy for automation, information retrieval, and task workflows. It also engages in systematic research and analysis of AI behavior, safety methods, and policy issues to inform product design and external stakeholders. Beyond product development, Anthropic generates documented insights and collaborates with academic, civil society, and industry groups to explore implications of AI on economic and societal systems. These efforts aim to connect foundational research with practical AI applications in enterprise environments.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Anthropic invests in
Stages Anthropic invests in
Countries Anthropic invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (57%)
- Software 5 (36%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (29%)
- Information Technology 3 (21%)
- Machine Learning 2 (14%)
Stage
- Grant 4 (29%)
- Series A 4 (29%)
- Seed 2 (14%)
- Angel 1 (7%)
- Private Equity 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 8 (57%)
- Australia 1 (7%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Boufford
Member of Technical Staff & Manager
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Member of Technical Staff & Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Rohan Taori
Member of the Technical Staff
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Member of the Technical Staff | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Sarah Heck
Head of Public Policy
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Head of Public Policy | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Daniela Amodei
Co-Founder and President
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Co-Founder and President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Dario Amodei
Co-Founder and CEO
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Co-Founder and CEO | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cruq AI is a platform for building, running, and owning production AI agents. It is built for teams that want durable agents they actually control, rather than a black-box chatbot or a service they can never take with them.Cruq AI, an agent is a versioned graph of prompts, tools, and model calls. Teams design agents visually or in code, run themin production, and keep every run, trace, tool call, and byte of memory. The platform's core thesis is ownership: customers bring their own model provider keys (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others), so they pay providers directly at cost, switch or compare models without re-platforming, and avoid per-credit lock-in to a single vendor.The platform includes the parts that decide whether an agent survives contact with real users: guardrails (PII, regex, keyword, length, and JSON-schema) on both input and output, long-term semantic memory, retrieval-augmented knowledge bases built from uploaded documents, eval suites and scored experiments for comparing models and prompts, and full observability of tokens, cost, and latency per run. Everything is accessible programmatically through a tenant-scoped REST API, an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, and OAuth 2.0, so agents and other software can drive the platform directly.Alongside the platform, the cruq.ai team designs and ships production AI systems with enterprises across sectors including business events, manufacturing and supply chain, digital advertising, HR technology, and real estate, spanning conversational agents, retrieval, forecasting, and voice.Cruq AI is best for teams, developers, and enterprises building serious, owned agents. It is not a consumer chatbot. | $75K / Non-equity Assistance / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| The agentic economy is here, but it cannot progress until AI agents can autonomously access and operate across real-world systems and services.Sapiom gives AI agents trusted access to the API economy.We provide the essential infrastructure (KYA, wallets, spending and usage controls, and multi-rail payments) to unlock secure, programmaticcommerce for the AI era.Built for the next era of commerce where agents buy, sell, and negotiate on our behalf.We're backed by world-class investors and are hiring exceptional engineers in SF to define the financial infrastructure for the agentic era.Learn more & join us: https://www.sapiom.ai | $35M / Series A / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
Anthropic Applied AI JV
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Anthropic's Applied AI JV will embed applied AI engineers directly within companies to redesign workflows and integrate Claude models into core processes rather than just selling software licenses. | $1.5B / Private Equity / May 04, 2026 | |
| The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes, protects, and standardizes open source software by hosting important workgroups, events, and online resources. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation provides unparalleled support for open source communities through financial and intellectual resources, infrastructure, services,events, and training. Working together, The Linux Foundation and its projects form the most ambitious and successful investment in the creation of shared technology. For years the Linux Foundation has provided a neutral home and unmatched support for cutting-edge projects — fostering burgeoning communities that breed collaboration, power innovation, and attract the best engineering talent in the world. | $12.5M / Grant / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| Alpha-Omega protects society by funding and catalyzing sustainable security across open source software. | Grant / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| The non-profit software foundation working to solve security problems in the open source supply chain. | Grant / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| LocalHost is an organization that operates in-person lab spaces designed as a launchpad for young technical and creative founders building at the intersection of media, software, and hardware. The organization provides structured residency programs, collaborative workspaces, and hands-on support that enable early-stage builders to prototype,experiment, and develop products in a shared physical environment. Its labs bring together engineers, designers, and creators to work on projects spanning consumer technology, creative tools, content platforms, and hardware-enabled experiences. LocalHost facilitates mentorship, peer collaboration, and access to technical resources that support rapid iteration and cross-disciplinary experimentation. The organization focuses on fostering a concentrated, in-person community model that emphasizes building, testing, and launching products within a cohort-based setting. | $2.5M / Angel / Feb 16, 2026 | ||
| The agentic economy is here, but it cannot progress until AI agents can autonomously access and operate across real-world systems and services.Sapiom gives AI agents trusted access to the API economy.We provide the essential infrastructure (KYA, wallets, spending and usage controls, and multi-rail payments) to unlock secure, programmaticcommerce for the AI era.Built for the next era of commerce where agents buy, sell, and negotiate on our behalf.We're backed by world-class investors and are hiring exceptional engineers in SF to define the financial infrastructure for the agentic era.Learn more & join us: https://www.sapiom.ai | $15.8M / Seed / Feb 05, 2026 | ||
| The Python Software Foundation is an organization devoted to advancing open source technology related to the Python programming language. | $1.5M / Corporate Round / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| Autonomous AI agents for Security Risk and Compliance | $18M / Series A / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| See all 14 investments → | |||
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What does Anthropic invest in?
Anthropic invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Grant and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Anthropic includes Michael Boufford (Member of Technical Staff & Manager), Rohan Taori (Member of the Technical Staff) and Sarah Heck (Head of Public Policy), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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