According to Fortune, Anthropic has submitted a S-1 registration statement to the U.S. SEC, revealing the net worth of the seven co-founders. It is disclosed that the current net worth of these seven individuals ranges around 14 billion US dollars (approximately 93 billion RMB). If the company successfully goes public and its valuation increases, their wealth is expected to double.
The equity of the seven founders is nearly equal. Based on the reference price of $58.90 per share in the S-1, each person’s value would be between $13.7 billion and $14.4 billion; together, the seven individuals hold approximately 1.69 billion shares, accounting for 10% of the total capital stock. Institutional estimates suggest that if the overall valuation reaches around $2 trillion after listing, each person’s value would rise to between $27 billion and $29 billion. All seven founders are listed as shareholders in this issuance, but the amounts of shares they have reduced their holdings by have not been disclosed.
Selling shares doesn’t mean losing control rights
Charitable commitments are also prominent: each person plans to donate 80% of the shares they hold. It’s worth noting that donating equity does not mean giving up influence—the seven people jointly established an LLC that holds Class F stocks, retaining 50.1% of the company’s voting rights without any economic benefit; as long as at least 2% of the Class A shares are retained after the IPO, they can continue to control these voting rights. In other words, even if nearly 90% of the shares are donated, control remains firmly in their hands.
The document also shows that the company injected 846.8 million shares into a newly established public welfare fund, which accounts for 5% of the fully diluted shares. This AI company, founded in San Francisco in 2021 by seven former OpenAI employees, has the Claude series serving a large number of enterprise users.