Daniela Amodei’s Net Worth Explained: How Anthropic’s $61.5B Valuation Propelled This Former OpenAI VP to Billionaire Status

Key Takeaways

• Anthropic’s latest funding round valued the company at $61.5 billion.
• The AI startup was founded by the Amodei siblings and five other former OpenAI employees.
• Based on Anthropic’s latest valuation, Daniela Amodei is most likely a billionaire.

Anthropic’s latest $61.5 billion funding round will likely make billionaires out of each of its founders, including President Daniela Amodei.

Alongside her brother Dario, Amodei was the most senior among seven former OpenAI employees who left to start Anthropic in 2021.

Anthropic Funding Round Makes Cofounders Billionaires

With seven cofounders, a plausible range for Anthropic’s initial equity stakes is 10–20% per founder.

Although exact figures aren’t available, Forbes estimates that subsequent dilution has reduced the size of their stakes to between two and three percent each.

Considering their highly visible leading roles at the company, it is reasonable to assume that both Dario and Daniela hold Anthropic equity worth well over a billion dollars each.

Daniela Amodei’s Net Worth

In May 2024, Forbes calculated Amodei’s net worth to be $830 million. But that was based on Anthropic’s Series D valuation of $17.7 billion, which made Amodei one of the elite group of female founders of unicorn companies.

Based on Anthropic’s latest valuation, a two percent share in the company today would be worth $1.23 billion. This would likely be the minimum value of Amodei’s personal fortune.

A Different Kind of AI Executive

Unlike many AI executives, Amodei doesn’t have a technical background in computer science or engineering. She studied English Literature in college and her early career was spent in political communications.

Amodei got her first taste of the tech sector as a recruiter for Stripe—an Irish-American Fintech firm where she was an early employee.

After Stripe, Amodei moved to join her brother at OpenAI in 2018. There, she spent two years as vice president of safety and policy before departing to found Anthropic.

In Amodei’s Own Words

• “One of the things that is special about [Anthropic’s] founding group is that we had all been working really closely together already.”
• “Individuals and businesses don’t want models that are producing harmful, dishonest or unhelpful outputs […] They want the safest version of the model.”
• “We hope people use Claude as a partner or a collaborator that helps humans do the things that they want to do and live the lives they want to live.”