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Sam McCandlish

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San Francisco, United States

Research guru in AI methodologies and algorithms.

Companies

Anthropic

Co-founder and Chief Architect

Series C+AI

Anthropic makes Claude, an AI model used by people and businesses to write, analyse documents and build software. Founded in San Francisco in 2021 by seven former OpenAI researchers, it filed on October 26, 2026, to list its shares on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT.

San Francisco, United States anthropic.comFounded 2021Raised $34B

Series H

$65BMay 2026

Series B · Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX colleagues

$580MApr 2022

Series F · Menlo Ventures, TPG, General Catalyst, BlackRock

$34B

Series A · Jaan Tallinn, Dustin Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt

$124M

Source: failory.com · Updated Oct 30, 2026