Seven executives join world’s 500 richest people after latest funding round
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Anthropic’s latest funding round puts the AI firm’s seven founders among the world’s 500 richest people; This is the most companies added in a single day in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The founders, led by sisters Dario and Daniela Amodei, each own less than 1 percent of the company, according to wealth index calculations, but their individual shares are worth about $8 billion ($11.2 billion) after Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation.
Besides Amodeis, other Anthropic co-founders joining Bloomberg’s wealth list for the first time include Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish and Christopher Olah.
A spokesman for Anthropic declined to comment.
The AI boom has created an explosion of wealth in both public and private markets over the past few years. Jensen Huang, co-founder of AI chip maker Nvidia, saw his wealth rise from $10.9 billion in October 2022 to more than $177 billion, making him the eighth richest person on the wealth index.
Bloomberg this month identified 19 new AI billionaires (worth a total of $59 billion) who will emerge from trendy startups, from the co-founders of Cerebras Systems, which went public earlier this month, to Edwin Chen of Surge Lab, now valued at $13 billion.
San Francisco-based Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI employees who left due to disagreements over the company’s future direction. Anthropic, known for chatbot Claude and tools for businesses, expects to generate $10.9 billion in revenue in the second quarter, Bloomberg previously reported; This means more than a double increase compared to the previous three-month period.
OpenAI’s leap
With its latest funding round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital, Anthropic has eclipsed OpenAI in valuation for the first time. The value of San Francisco-based OpenAI reached $852 billion after its funding round in March.
Bloomberg’s calculations of co-founders’ stakes are based on Pitchbook data and reporting on Anthropic’s previous funding rounds, and are adjusted to account for typical equity grants given to non-founder employees based on data from Carta.
Anthropic and OpenAI are likely to go public later this year, Bloomberg News reported. Anthropic is expected to pursue an IPO on that timeline after its latest funding round, one person said.
While most of their net worth is still on paper, Anthropic’s founders have pledged to donate 80 percent of their wealth. CEO Dario Amodei said he is concerned about the concentration of wealth that could result from the AI industry, particularly its potential impact on everything from tax policy to democracy and political influence.
“What is worrying is the concentration of wealth at a level that will tear society apart,” he wrote in a January 2026 article.
“Those at the forefront of the economic explosion of AI must be willing to sacrifice both their wealth and their power.”
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