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Anthropic

Frontier safety-first AI lab. Maker of Claude.

HQ San Francisco, USFounded 2021late stageWebsite @AnthropicAI
Composite score
78.8
rank #4 · risers

#4 Riser. Headcount up 19% over the last 90 days.

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Headcount
5.8k
+3.5%
90d change
+19.4%
Funding events (90d)
1
19 all-time tracked
Layoff events (90d)
0

headcount + trends: LinkedIn-tracked weekly series · funding & layoff counts: through Jul 2026 (frozen) + live news extraction

Signals

source: PDL v25
Inferred revenue
$1B-$10B
PDL estimate
Revenue / employee
$956k
midpoint ÷ headcount
12-month turnover
15.4%
within typical band
Average tenure
1.4 yrs
Time since last raise
3 mo
recent raise

Hiring flow · Anthropic

source: PDL v25

Headcount by role

12-month growth · PDL v25
Engineering
1,705
+125%
Operations
251
+112%
Human Resources
204
+152%
Finance
182
+259%
Marketing
159
+125%
Sales
109
+129%
Legal
95
+164%
Research
92
+59%
Other
589

In the news

relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days
  1. TechCrunch2d ago
    Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

    Anthropic is a significant subject of the article, specifically regarding a $1.5B copyright settlement ruling by Judge Alsup.

  2. TechCrunch2d ago
    Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

    Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 used as performance benchmark comparison for Inherent's Faraday agent.

  3. TechCrunch3d ago
    Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

    Anthropic scored lowest in containment preparedness study and cited in cybersecurity incident context.

  4. TechCrunchHeadline3d ago
    Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

    Article is entirely about Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model failing to enforce safeguards against generating sexually explicit content.

  5. TechCrunchHeadline4d ago
    OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates

    Article is primarily about Anthropic's market share loss to OpenAI among US business users based on Ramp data.

  6. The Verge5d ago
    Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels

    Claude mentioned as one of Slack's founding partner agents integrating with Code feature.

  7. TechCrunch5d ago
    OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

    Anthropic's data retention policy is a major focus; OpenAI's new service is positioned as superior to Anthropic's approach.

  8. The Verge6d ago
    Meta AI is getting a Mac app

    Anthropic's Claude app is mentioned as a competitive AI assistant with desktop control capabilities.

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Events

Funding · series h · $50B
3mo ago
Funding · series h · $10B
4mo ago
Funding · series h · $5.0B
4mo ago
Funding · series g · $30B
6mo ago
Funding · series f · $13B
1y ago
Funding · debt financing · $2.5B
1y ago
Funding · series e · $3.5B
1y ago
Funding · corporate round · $1.0B
2y ago
Funding · corporate round · $4.0B
2y ago
Funding · secondary market · $452M
2y ago
Funding · secondary market · $884M
2y ago
Funding · series d · $750M
3y ago

Score history

2026-08-24
78.8
rank #4
2026-08-17
79.6
rank #4
2026-08-10
79.5
rank #5
2026-08-03
71.7
rank #4
2026-07-27
71.4
rank #4
2026-07-20
86.0
rank #5
2026-07-13
88.7
rank #4
2026-07-06
84.2
rank #3
2026-06-29
85.4
rank #2
2026-06-22
83.0
rank #3
2026-06-15
53.2
rank #7
2026-06-08
85.1
rank #3