Founder Profile
Daniela Amodei
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Daniela Amodei?
Daniela Amodei is a founder of Anthropic PBC, which was founded in 2021 with Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Sam McCandlish, Jared Kaplan, Tom Brown, Chris Olah and Ben Mann.
- Company founded
- Anthropic PBC
- Founded
- 2021
- Co-founders
- Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Sam McCandlish, Jared Kaplan, Tom Brown, Chris Olah and Ben Mann
Background
Daniela Amodei held operations and people leadership roles at Stripe before joining OpenAI, where she served as Vice President of Safety and Policy. That combination of operational and policy work shaped how she built Anthropic's non-research organization.
Founding Story
Daniela Amodei is co-founder and President of Anthropic PBC, responsible for the commercial and operating side of the company: go-to-market, finance, people, investor relations and public benefit compliance. She previously led safety and policy at OpenAI as Vice President and held operations roles at Stripe. At Anthropic she has overseen growth to more than 2,500 employees as of early 2026 and the distribution strategy that put Claude on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Daniela Amodei was born in 1987 in San Francisco. Education: University of California, Santa Cruz.