Anaconda is a free, open-source distribution of Python and R designed for data science, machine learning, and AI projects. It streamlines package and environment management through its powerful tool, Conda, and includes pre-installed libraries like NumPy and Pandas. With Anaconda Navigator, users can easily manage tools, environments, and applications for efficient, conflict-free data workflows.
Anaconda, Inc. has developed a unified open source platform to help organizations accelerate and enrich their data science and AI workflows in a secure way. The consolidation of tools to effectively manage packages, environments, and dependencies promotes AI and machine learning model development and deployment on a variety of platforms, systems, and devices.
The company, complemented with the robust Conda manager and repositories for secure built-in access, improves workflows, fosters collaboration, and secures data. Anaconda combines a commitment to open-source innovation and enterprise development to allow organizations to properly capture and maximize opportunities for AI and data-driven insights, leveraging adaptability, efficiency, and growth strategies in an increasingly digital world.
| Legal Name | Anaconda, Inc. |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, United States |
| Business Model | B2C, B2B, B2B2C |
| Founding Date | 2012 |
| No. of Employees | Approx 300 (As of 2025) |
The company offers the Anaconda AI Platform, Conda Package Manager, Anaconda Distribution, Anaconda Navigator, secure governance tools, package and environment management, open-source package repositories, enterprise-grade analytics, role-based access control, and industry-specific AI solutions for academia, finance, government, healthcare, and manufacturing.
| David DeSanto | Chief Executive Officer |
| Jane Kim | Co-President and Chief Commercial Officer |
| Laura Sellers | Co-President and Chief Product and Technology Officer |
| Peter Wang | Chief AI and Innovation Officer & Co-founder |
| Nitin Mittal | Chief Financial Officer |
| Mark Mitchell | Senior Vice President, Strategy and Operations |
| Vanessa Macllwaine | Chief People Officer |
| Megan Niedermeyer | Chief Legal Officer |
Anaconda generates revenue primarily through enterprise and commercial subscriptions, platform licensing, and support & services tied to its open‑source ecosystem. It offers an “open core” model (free core distribution with paid tiers for enterprise features).
Client Segments: Large enterprises (including many Fortune 500) across industries adopting AI, data science and open‑source tooling.
Target Companies: Enterprises seeking scalable AI/data‑science platforms, secure open‑source deployment, package management across organisations.
Target Geography: Global
Client Segments: Individual developers, data scientists, researchers, students who use the free core distribution or individual editions of its tools. Wikipedia
Target Offerings: Anaconda’s free/open‑source distribution for Python & R; tools like its package manager and environment manager; community resources.
Target Geography: Global access is available
Client Segments: Educational institutions, research organizations, channel/reseller partners, training organisations that use or distribute Anaconda’s offerings. Anaconda
Target Users: Students, researchers, developers within partner organisations; teams within enterprises utilising partner‑provided or Anaconda‑integrated tools.
Target Companies: Universities, training providers, software vendors, cloud service providers partnering to deliver data‑science/AI stack built on Anaconda.
Target Geography: Global