# Altimeter Capital A technology-focused crossover investment firm founded in 2008 by Brad Gerstner, operating across public-market and late-stage venture strategies. Altimeter rode the AI wave early — buying Nvidia ahead of the ChatGPT launch and calling the "AI supercycle" — and holds positions in both [[Anthropic]] and [[OpenAI]]. ## KB Relevance Altimeter co-led [[Anthropic]]'s **$65B Series H** at a $965B post-money valuation in May 2026 (see [[Anthropic $65B Series H]]), placing it among the lead financiers of the frontier-model race the KB maps. Its KB significance is sharpened by founder **Brad Gerstner's** political alignment. A self-described [[Milton Friedman]] free-market disciple, Gerstner became a vocal booster of the Trump administration's **"Trump Accounts"** — championing the Invest America Act, which created $1,000 tax-advantaged investment accounts for children born 2025–2028, and praising it directly to Trump as part of "your Main Street agenda, Mr. President." He has also argued a [[Trump White House]] would loosen M&A constraints. Gerstner exemplifies the strand of tech-finance the KB tracks: not movement-conservative, but transactionally aligned with the administration on tax, deregulation, and capital-markets policy. ## See Also - [[Anthropic]] - [[Anthropic $65B Series H]] - [[OpenAI]] - [[Dragoneer Investment Group]] - [[Greenoaks]]