Christopher Liddell - Crunchbase Person Profile

Overview

Number of Portfolio Companies

Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles

Location San Francisco, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US
Gender Male
Also Known As Chris, Christopher P. Liddell

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Website chrisliddell.com

Christopher Pell Liddell is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Board of Directors of Anthropic. Christopher previously worked at General Motors as a Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer. Christopher Pell Liddell attended Oxford University. Christopher Pell Liddell has been awarded Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments

Christopher Liddell

has made

investments. Their latest investment was

Seed Round - CloudNC

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, when

CloudNC

raised

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	CloudNC	No	Seed Round - CloudNC	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Bloomz, Inc.	No	Seed Round - Bloomz, Inc.	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Major League Hacking (MLH)	—	Seed Round - Major League Hacking (MLH)	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Ridley	—	Seed Round - Ridley	obfuscated obfuscation

Jobs

Number of Past Jobs

Christopher Liddell

has had

past jobs including

CFO

Microsoft

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Microsoft	CFO	May 2005	Dec 31, 2009
International Paper	CFO	—	—
General Motors	Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer	Dec 21, 2009	—
Credit Suisse First Boston	Managing Director and joint CEO	—	—
Xero	Chairman of the Board	—	—

Board and Advisor Roles

Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles

Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles

Christopher Liddell

holds

board and advisor roles as

Board of Directors

Anthropic

and

Board of Directors

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Anthropic Board of DirectorsFeb 13, 2026
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Board of DirectorsAug 6, 2025

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Xero	Chairman Of The Board	Feb 11, 2014	—

Related Hubs

Hub Name	CB Rank (Hub)
Wealthfront's Career Launching Companies 2019	25,762
Top companies founded by women	17
Hot Tech Companies Globally	62,010
Early-stage Investors in Agtech	5,925
Cleantech companies in the US	10,423
Healthcare companies that raised $10M+ in the last year	26,330
US Unicorn and near-Unicorn Companies	41,335
Y Combinator 2018 top companies (by CB rank)	87,831
Top investors in robots (by CB Rank)	13
Trending financial services companies with recent funding	2

Education

Christopher Liddell

studied at

University of Auckland

and

University of Oxford

University of Auckland BEEngineering
University of Oxford MSPhilosophy

Recent News and Activity

Number of News Articles

245

News•

Apr 29, 2020