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▶ 27:32 · $ANTHROPIC · Eric Landau bullish on Anthropic: maniacal focus on enterprise and coding creates clear category leadership
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Scaling Europe

Encord has just raised a $60m Series C: An interview with Co-CEO and Co-founder Eric Landau

2026-02-26 · 8 company · 7 thematic
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eric landau

Former particle physicist and quantitative trader of 10 years who left finance during COVID to build Encord, a data infrastructure platform for physical AI. Believes AI is the generational platform shift comparable to early internet.

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“I'm quite bullish on Anthropic uh because you can see that their uh strategies of really focusing maniacally on enterprise and on coding has has really started to pay off and they are now the clear winner in that category and that's going…”
—eric landau
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$PICKLE-ROBOTneutral· loweric landau
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Eric Landau bullish on Anthropic: maniacal focus on enterprise and coding creates clear category leadership
Anthropic's disciplined focus on enterprise and coding use cases — saying no to other opportunities — has made them the clear winner in a massive category, demonstrating rare foun…