Anthropic Raises $13B, Reaching $183B Valuation Amid Explosive Growth

Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B valuation | TechCrunch

AI firm Anthropic has raised a $13 billion Series F round that brings its post-money valuation up to $183 billion - funds the company says will be used to grow its enterprise adoption, deepen safety research, and support international expansion. Iconiq co-led the round with Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to the company's blog post. Other backers include a string of institutional investors, VCs, sovereign wealth funds, private equity, and asset managers, such as Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Insight Partners, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Qatar Investment Authority, and more. "We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base," Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said in the post. "This financing demonstrates investors' extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and the strength of their collaboration with us to continue fueling our unprecedented growth." Anthropic last raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation in March 2025. This latest fundraise comes after reports that Anthropic was nearing a deal to raise between $3 billion and $5 billion in funding at a $170 billion valuation. It also follows impressive growth from the AI startup, which reported a jump in annual recurring revenue from $1 billion to $5 billion over the course of 2025 amid accelerated API usage and enterprise adoption. "Anthropic now serves over 300,000 business customers, and our number of large accounts -- customers that each represent over $100,000 in run-rate revenue -- has grown nearly 7x in the past year," the company said in the company blog post. Claude Code is also a developer favorite and one of the main impetuses for Anthropic's growth. The company said its vibe-coding product already generates more than $500 million in run-rate revenue with usage growing more than 10x in the last three months. But maintaining that growth and competing with rivals like OpenAI, Cursor, and others requires more money, as its CEO Dario Amodei recently confessed in a memo, reported by Wired. He said he wasn't "thrilled" about taking money from sovereign wealth funds of dictatorial governments, but that it's difficult to run a business by excluding "bad people" from investing.

Anthropic is now valued at $183 billion

Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude and one of OpenAI's chief competitors, emerged from the holiday weekend with big news: A completed funding round of $13 billion, awarding the company a $183 billion post-money valuation. The company said in a press release that between the start of 2025 and August -- less than nine months -- its run-rate revenue had grown from about $1 billion to more than $5 billion. It also said it now has more than 300,000 business customers and that in the past year, its list of "large accounts," or "customers that each represent over $100,000 in run-rate revenue," increased sevenfold. As for Claude Code, one of the chief moneymakers Anthropic has been banking on, the product has already generated more than $500 million in run-rate revenue, according to the press release -- and Anthropic said usage grew by more than tenfold in the three months since its "full launch." The Series F round was led by ICONIQ, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Investors included the Qatar Investment Authority, TPG, Altimeter, Blackstone, Coatue, General Catalyst, and others. Anthropic said it would use the money in part to "meet growing enterprise demand, deepen our safety research, and support international expansion."

Anthropic valued at $183 billion after $13 billion fundraise

Sept 2 (Reuters) - Artificial-intelligence company Anthropic said on Tuesday it had raised $13 billion at a $183 billion post-money valuation led by investment firm ICONIQ. Investor enthusiasm towards AI startups has stayed strong despite some doubts over tech industry spending. Anthropic's run-rate revenue, which had grown to approximately $1 billion at the beginning of 2025, was more than $5 billion by August, according to a company blog. Amazon.com-backed (AMZN.O), opens new tab Anthropic said the latest funding round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other major investors include the Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab and Coatue. Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Pooja Desai Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

Anthropic's valuation more than doubles to $183 billion after $13 billion fundraise

Sept 2 (Reuters) - Artificial-intelligence company Anthropic said on Tuesday it is now valued at $183 billion post-money, over twice as much as its earlier valuation, as investor enthusiasm towards AI startups stays strong despite some doubts over tech industry spending. The new valuation is a jump from the $61.5 billion post-money valuation in March this year, where it raised $3.5 billion. Anthropic said it raised $13 billion in a Series F round led by investment firm ICONIQ. The "investment will expand our capacity to meet growing enterprise demand, deepen our safety research, and support international expansion as we continue building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems," Anthropic said in a blog post. The startup, backed by Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab and Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab, has distinguished its work, in part, by building AI models that excel at coding. Anthropic's run-rate revenue, which had grown to approximately $1 billion at the beginning of 2025, was more than $5 billion by August. The startup behind the Claude large language models unveiled Opus 4.1 in August, an upgrade to Opus 4 on agentic tasks, real-world coding and reasoning. The latest funding round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research and Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic said. Other major investors include the Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab and Coatue. U.S. startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025, driven largely by major AI investments and bold bets from big tech companies, putting it on track for its second-best year ever, a report from PitchBook showed in July. Last month, Anthropic said it will offer Claude to the U.S. government for $1. Claude, along with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, was added to a list of approved AI vendors, the U.S. government's central purchasing arm said in August. Amazon is considering another multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic to strengthen their strategic partnership, the Financial Times had reported in July. Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Pooja Desai and Alan Barona Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

AI start-up Anthropic valued at $170bn in expanded funding round

Four-year-old artificial intelligence group Anthropic has leapt to a $170bn valuation after raising one of the largest venture funding rounds, boosting its bid to compete with rivals such as OpenAI in a fierce race to dominate the technology. The San Francisco-based group, which was founded by former OpenAI employees, said the $13bn investment "reinforce[d] its position as the leading intelligence platform for enterprises, developers and power users". Venture capital firms Iconiq Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners co-led the round, alongside Fidelity Management & Research Company. A number of other institutional investors and sovereign funds including Singapore's GIC and the Qatar Investment Authority also participated. Anthropic, last valued at about $60bn in March, had originally sought to raise around $5bn but increased the size of the funding round following demand from investors to back fast-growing AI companies -- even as investor enthusiasm about public technology companies shows signs of moderating. "We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base," said Krishna Rao, chief financial officer of Anthropic, who added that its customers included Fortune 500 companies and AI start-ups. "This financing demonstrates investors' extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and the strength of their collaboration with us to continue fuelling our unprecedented growth," he added. QIA's participation in the round marks the first time Anthropic has raised money directly from the Middle East, a move chief executive Dario Amodei had previously resisted. Earlier this year he told staff the company was changing tack amid a relentless push for capital. "Unfortunately, I think 'no bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on," he wrote. The new investment is the latest in a series of huge deals for AI start-ups this year. OpenAI is in the process of raising $40bn from investors led by SoftBank, the largest ever financing for a tech start-up. Meanwhile, a number of start-ups building applications for AI have raised hundreds of millions of dollars at multibillion-dollar valuations. Anthropic's Claude chatbot was launched in 2023, competing with popular rivals such as ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. Anthropic said its run-rate revenue -- a projection of annual revenue based on recent performance which is favoured by start-ups -- reached more than $5bn, up from $1bn at the start of the year. That makes Anthropic one of the fastest-growing tech companies in history. Nonetheless, Anthropic and its rivals are burning through far more cash than they are making in their bid to push the frontier of AI development. Leading groups in the sector anticipate losing billions of dollars for years before they break even. While OpenAI's ChatGPT has become the ubiquitous consumer application for AI, Anthropic has focused on business customers. It said it now has more than 300,000 enterprise customers -- up almost seven times in the past year -- and expects each to contribute at least $100,000 in run-rate revenue.

Anthropic raises $13 billion funding round at $183 billion valuation

The most recent funding round was led by Iconiq, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other investors including Altimeter, General Catalyst and Coatue also participated, Anthropic said. "This financing demonstrates investors' extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and the strength of their collaboration with us to continue fueling our unprecedented growth," Anthropic finance chief Krishna Rao said in a statement. Anthropic's valuation has been on a steep climb since it announced its AI assistant Claude in March 2023. The Amazon-backed startup was founded by former OpenAI research executives, including its CEO Dario Amodei. OpenAI and Anthropic are fierce competitors in the AI market. OpenAI, which rocketed into the mainstream following the release of its AI chatbot ChatGPT in 2022, is preparing to sell stock as part of a secondary sale that would value the company at roughly $500 billion, as CNBC reported in August. As of August, Anthropic said its run-rate revenue has reached over $5 billion, up from roughly $1 billion at the beginning of the year. Anthropic serves more than 300,000 business customers, the company said. Anthropic said it will use its fresh capital to deepen safety research, meet growing enterprise demand and support international expansion.

Anthropic Raises Its Valuation to $183 Billion in New Funding

Cade Metz, who has covered artificial intelligence for more than 15 years, reported from San Francisco. Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence start-up, said on Tuesday that it had completed a new funding round that valued it at $183 billion, up nearly three times from about $61.5 billion six months ago. The deal, which was led by the investment firm Iconiq Capital, brings an additional $13 billion into Anthropic's coffers. The start-up has raised a total of more than $27 billion since its founding in 2021, including from venture capital firms such as Menlo Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners and tech giants like Amazon and Google. "Anthropic is on an exceptional trajectory, combining research excellence, technological leadership and relentless focus on customers," Divesh Makan, an Iconiq partner, said in a statement. The spending on A.I. has escalated this year to record heights, with tech giants and investors pumping hundreds of billions into the development of the technology and raising questions about whether the boom can be sustained. Anthropic's rivals, such as OpenAI, the maker of the chatbot ChatGPT, have also been inundated by funding offers. Most recently, OpenAI has been in talks with investors to sell $6 billion in shares owned by current and former employees in a deal that would value it at roughly $500 billion, which would make it the world's most valuable private company. Before the end of the year, five companies -- Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI -- also plan to spend more than $300 billion combined on the data centers used to build new A.I. technologies. That is $100 billion more than the annual budget of Belgium. The spending has accelerated even as A.I. technologies, which are expensive to build and deliver compared with traditional online services, often remain in the red. Almost eight in 10 businesses have started using generative A.I., but just as many have said it has had "no significant bottom-line impact," according to recent research from McKinsey. Anthropic, which makes the Claude chatbot, is raising money as it pays billions of dollars a year to companies like Amazon and Google to use their computing facilities to develop A.I. The start-up is set to be the primary user of a new Amazon data center in Indiana, which will eventually consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity -- enough to power a million homes. OpenAI set off the A.I. boom in late 2022 with the release of ChatGPT, prompting a funding surge. Investor enthusiasm cooled in 2024 as several high-profile start-ups were essentially folded into big tech companies like Google and Amazon. But as companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have improved their A.I. technologies, they have continued raising money. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, accusing them of copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. OpenAI and Microsoft have denied those claims.) Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, and his sister, Daniela Amodei, the company's president, founded the start-up to build A.I. with guardrails. They had worked at OpenAI, but left after disagreements there over how A.I. technologies were being funded and released through Microsoft. In a podcast interview in 2023, Mr. Amodei said there was a 10 to 25 percent chance that A.I. technology could destroy humanity. In October, he struck a more optimistic tone, publishing a 14,000-word essay on A.I.'s potential benefits. "I think that most people are underestimating just how radical the upside of A.I. could be, just as I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be," he wrote. In November, Anthropic raised $4 billion from Amazon, its largest investor, which has put a total of $8 billion into the start-up. The company's latest funding round also includes such investors as Fidelity and Lightspeed.

Anthropic Nearly Triples Valuation To $183B With Massive New Funding

Generative AI company Anthropic said Tuesday that it has raised a $13 billion Series F round at a $183 billion valuation. Iconiq Capital led the round, with Fidelity Management & Research Co. and Lightspeed Venture Partners co-leading. With the new funding, Anthropic becomes the fourth-most valuable private company in the world, per Crunchbase data. The San Francisco-based company remains the second-most highly valued generative AI startup behind rival OpenAI, which was valued at $300 billion most recently. The announcement confirms reporting over the summer that Anthropic was in talks to raise significant new funding at a much higher valuation. The new round nearly triples its valuation from March, when it raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation. The company says its revenue run rate as of August was more than $5 billion -- significant growth since the beginning of the year, when that figure was around $1 billion. Much of its growth has been on the enterprise side: Anthropic said it now has more than 300,000 business customers, up nearly 7x in the past year. Anthropic's deal also comes as funding to artificial intelligence startups dominates venture investment globally. Around $40 billion in venture investment -- or 45% of global funding -- went to the AI sector in Q2, according to Crunchbase data. Foundation model companies raised $5.5 billion of that. Anthropic has now raised $33.7 billion since its inception in 2021, per Crunchbase. Its funding also illustrates the extent to which venture investment has increasingly concentrated into larger rounds for already well-capitalized startups. Other major investors in its new funding included Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, affiliated funds of BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, General Atlantic, General Catalyst, GIC, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Insight Partners, Jane Street, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Qatar Investment Authority, TPG, T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc., WCM Investment Management and XN.

Anthropic now valued at $183 billion, as AI race heats up

Why it's the BFD: This makes Anthropic the world's fourth-most valuable startup, tripling its valuation from this past spring, and gives it more capital firepower to compete with AI market leader OpenAI. By the numbers: Anthropic disclosed that its annual revenue run-rate reached $5 billion in August, after being at around $1 billion when 2025 began. * It was valued at $61.5 billion during a March fundraise led by Lightspeed. Zoom in: Iconiq led the round, with Fidelity and Lightspeed Venture Partners listed as co-leads. * Other investors included: Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, General Atlantic, General Catalyst, GIC, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Insight Partners, Jane Street, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Qatar Investment Authority, TPG, T. Rowe Price, WCM Investment Management, and XN. The bottom line: Anthropic is well regarded, especially for coding.

Anthropic valued at $183 bn in new funding round

Anthropic announced Tuesday that it raised $13 billion in a funding round valuing the artificial intelligence startup at $183 billion. The company will use the capital infusion to expand capacity, deepen safety research, and support international expansion. Anthropic, known for its Claude chatbot and AI models, competes with offerings from Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft in a generative AI race that is costing tens of billions of dollars. According to reports, Anthropic's main rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, is in discussions to allow employees to cash out shares in a transaction that would value the company at about $500 billion. The sky-high valuations come despite emerging doubts about whether the financing of generative AI startups is sustainable, with companies requiring high spending for computing and chips while revenue struggles to keep pace. "We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base," Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao said in a blog post. "This financing demonstrates investors' extraordinary confidence in our financial performance." Heavily backed by Amazon, Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives. The company positions itself as focused on AI safety and responsible development. The San Francisco-based startup said it has more than 300,000 business customers and that the number of accounts on pace to generate more than $100,000 annually is nearly seven times larger than a year ago. The funding round was led by investment firm ICONIQ Growth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Fidelity Management and Research Company. Anthropic said it has grown rapidly since Claude's initial release in early 2023, with its annual revenue rate quintupling to $5 billion since early this year. The company last week settled a class-action lawsuit with a group of US authors; details of the settlement were not disclosed. A federal judge in June sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' permission. However, the judge ruled that downloading pirated copies to build a general-purpose library constituted copyright infringement, regardless of eventual training use.

Anthropic valued at $183 bn in new funding round

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Anthropic announced Tuesday that it raised $13 billion in a funding round valuing the artificial intelligence startup at $183 billion. The company will use the capital infusion to expand capacity, deepen safety research, and support international expansion. Anthropic, known for its Claude chatbot and AI models, competes with offerings from Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft in a generative AI race that is costing tens of billions of dollars. According to reports, Anthropic's main rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, is in discussions to allow employees to cash out shares in a transaction that would value the company at about $500 billion. The sky-high valuations come despite emerging doubts about whether the financing of generative AI startups is sustainable, with companies requiring high spending for computing and chips while revenue struggles to keep pace. "We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base," Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao said in a blog post. "This financing demonstrates investors' extraordinary confidence in our financial performance." Heavily backed by Amazon, Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives. The company positions itself as focused on AI safety and responsible development. The San Francisco-based startup said it has more than 300,000 business customers and that the number of accounts on pace to generate more than $100,000 annually is nearly seven times larger than a year ago. The funding round was led by investment firm ICONIQ Growth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Fidelity Management and Research Company. Anthropic said it has grown rapidly since Claude's initial release in early 2023, with its annual revenue rate quintupling to $5 billion since early this year. The company last week settled a class-action lawsuit with a group of US authors; details of the settlement were not disclosed. A federal judge in June sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' permission. However, the judge ruled that downloading pirated copies to build a general-purpose library constituted copyright infringement, regardless of eventual training use.

Anthropic triples valuation to $183B in new $13B funding round - SiliconANGLE

Anthropic PBC today announced that it has raised $13 billion in funding to support its artificial intelligence research and commercialization efforts. ICONIQ, Fidelity Management and Lightspeed led the Series F round. They were joined by more than a dozen other institutional backers. Anthropic is now worth $183 billion post-money, or about triple the valuation it received after its previous raise in May. The steep valuation increase reflects the company's rapid sales growth. Anthropic started the year with annualized revenue of about $1 billion and has since seen that number jump to $5 billion. The AI provider disclosed today that Claude Code, a programing assistant it introduced in February, accounts for more than $500 million of that revenue. One of the models that Claude Code uses to answer developer questions is Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.1 algorithm. The AI recently set a new record on the SWE-bench Verified coding benchmark with a score of 74.5%. Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI's o3 achieved 67.2% and 69.1%, respectively. Anthropic disclosed today that Claude Code usage has grown "more than 10x in just three months." This jump occurred despite the fact that the company rolled out new rate limits in July. Customers of Anthropic's top-end Claude Max plan can reportedly use Opus for 24 to 40 hours per month, while less capable algorithms may be used for longer. The company's installed base includes more than 300,000 business customers. According to Anthropic, the number of organizations that spend more than $100,000 annually on Claude has grown by a factor of seven over the past year. "We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base," said Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao. "This financing demonstrates investors' extraordinary confidence in our financial performance." Anthropic will use some of the funds to grow its international presence. The company didn't specify how it plans to go about the task. One possibility is that it will introduce versions of Claude tailored for specific markets, which is the approach rival OpenAI has taken with its recently launched ChatGPT Go subscription. Anthropic also plans to make investments in its AI safety research program. In March, the initiative produced two papers that shed new light on how large language models generate text and solve math problems. Anthropic hopes that visibility into the inner workings of LLMs will make it easier to verify the reliability of their safety guardrails. The company's AI safety research could also help make Claude more competitive. One of Anthropic's March papers contained findings on how LLMs apply knowledge learned in one domain to other domains. The ability to generalize concepts in this manner is a prerequisite to completing challenging reasoning tasks.

Anthropic valuation triples to $183B as Claude AI gains traction in crypto and beyond

Backed by Wall Street heavyweights, Anthropic's soaring valuation comes after it closed a $13 billion Series F, reflecting the mainstreaming of AI. AI company Anthropic, the developer of the Claude family of large language models, has reached a $183 billion valuation following its latest funding round -- a dramatic increase from the start of the year that underscores the accelerating growth of AI applications. The company disclosed Tuesday that it closed a $13 billion Series F round co-led by venture firms ICONIQ Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Some of North America's most prominent investors also joined the raise, reflecting the surge in institutional interest in artificial intelligence as a disruptive technology. Backers included Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, Coatue, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Jane Street, T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and funds affiliated with BlackRock. The $183 billion valuation is more than three times higher than Anthropic's reported value in January, when it closed a $2 billion fundraiser. While the company is still working to commercialize its tech, its revenue run rate has already surpassed $5 billion, and it now counts more than 300,000 business customers -- figures that help justify its soaring valuation. Anthropic's ties to the blockchain industry are limited, though one of its earliest backers was FTX, the collapsed crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. FTX acquired a 7.8% equity stake in Anthropic in 2022. Following its collapse, FTX moved to offload its stake in the AI development company in 2024. Related: VC Roundup: Bitcoin DeFi surges, but tokenization and stablecoins gain steam Anthropic's Claude family is designed as a general-purpose AI assistant, with applications spanning knowledge management, market analysis, content creation, programming and research. In the crypto industry, Claude has already been adopted by some of the sector's largest exchanges. Coinbase uses Claude to bolster customer support and internal operations, while Crypto.com relies on Claude 3 models via Amazon Bedrock to deliver real-time sentiment analysis across global markets. Anthropic said Coinbase's deployment of Claude has allowed the exchange to serve millions of users, process thousands of messages per hour and sharply reduce customer service handling times. Some industry observers argue that artificial intelligence will play a foundational role in the cryptocurrency sector, providing one of the few viable ways for firms to ensure compliance in a market defined by uninterrupted, round-the-clock trading. In a Cointelegraph opinion piece, Currency.com global CEO Konstantin Anissimov described a "gradual transition from human-centered workflows to embedded, AI-powered decision systems," adding: "In practice, these tools help map wallet behavior, interpret anomalies across chains and detect mismatches between business logic and regulatory zones in real time and at scale."

AI titan Anthropic just raised $13 billion, now valued at a massive $183 billion

AI company Anthropic raised $13 billion and is now worth $183 billion, showing strong investor interest in AI. The startup's revenue jumped fast in 2025 from $1 billion to over $5 billion. Anthropic plans to use the money for AI safety, global growth, and enterprise services, while also working with governments on AI strategy and defense. Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced on Tuesday that it raised $13 billion in fresh funding, giving it a huge post-money valuation of $183 billion. The funding round was led by ICONIQ, a well-known investment firm, showing strong investor interest in the AI sector. Fidelity Management & Research and Lightspeed Venture Partners also co-led the round, while other big investors included the Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone, and Coatue. Amazon.com is a backer of Anthropic, highlighting how big tech companies continue to bet on the AI boom, as per the report by Reuters. Anthropic said this was a Series F investment and it would use the money to expand enterprise capacity, boost safety research, grow internationally, and build more reliable and controllable AI systems. The company revealed that its revenue run-rate jumped sharply in 2025, starting at about $1 billion early in the year and climbing to over $5 billion by August. Despite concerns about overall tech industry spending, investor enthusiasm in AI startups remains strong, and Anthropic is one of the biggest examples of that, as stated in the report by Reuters U.S. startup funding as a whole has seen a 75.6% surge in the first half of 2025, driven mostly by AI investment, making this year potentially the second-best year ever for startup funding. Analysts link the current AI investment wave back to the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, which sparked global excitement and heavy spending by major tech firms. In addition to the fundraising, Anthropic also announced on Wednesday the launch of its National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council to deepen ties with Washington and allied governments, showing AI's growing role in defense and strategic planning, according to the report by Reuters. Q1. What is Anthropic's latest valuation after raising $13 billion? Anthropic is now valued at $183 billion after raising $13 billion in a funding round led by ICONIQ, with support from investors like Fidelity, Lightspeed, Amazon, and Qatar Investment Authority. Q2. How fast is Anthropic's revenue growing in 2025? Anthropic's revenue run-rate grew from about $1 billion early in 2025 to over $5 billion by August, showing massive growth in the AI startup sector.

Anthropic valued at $183 billion after $13 billion fundraise - The Economic Times

Artificial-intelligence company Anthropic said on Tuesday it had raised $13 billion at a $183 billion post-money valuation led by investment firm Iconiq. Investor enthusiasm towards AI startups has stayed strong despite some doubts over tech industry spending. Anthropic's run-rate revenue, which had grown to approximately $1 billion at the beginning of 2025, was more than $5 billion by August, according to a company blog. Amazon.com-backed Anthropic said the latest funding round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other major investors include the Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone and Coatue.

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The company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 2) press release that its run-rate revenue leapt from about $1 billion at the beginning of the year to over $5 billion in August. Claude Code, a tool for developers that Anthropic launched fully in May, now generates run-rate revenue of over $500 million, according to the release. In addition, Anthropic now serves more than 300,000 business accounts. Over the past year, the company has increased by seven times the number of customers that each represent run-rate revenue of over $100,000, per the release. "We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base," Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao said in the release. "This financing demonstrates investors' extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and the strength of their collaboration with us to continue fueling our unprecedented growth." With its new funding, Anthropic will expand its investments in capacity to meet enterprise demand, safety research and international expansion, according to the release. The Series F round was led by ICONIQ and co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners, per the release. ICONIQ Partner Divesh Makan said in the release: "Enterprise leaders tell us what we're seeing firsthand -- Claude is reliable, built on a trustworthy foundation and guided by leaders truly focused on the long term." In a blog post on the ICONIQ website, Makan said Anthropic's frontier models deliver the combination of performance, safety and reliability required by global businesses. "Anthropic's breakthrough models and product advancements have driven unprecedented growth and adoption at an unparalleled scale and the company has ascended to become the top player in enterprise AI," Makan said.

Anthropic valued at $183 billion after $13 billion fundraise

(Reuters) -Artificial-intelligence company Anthropic said on Tuesday it had raised $13 billion at a $183 billion post-money valuation led by investment firm ICONIQ. Investor enthusiasm towards AI startups has stayed strong despite some doubts over tech industry spending. "The Series F investment will expand our capacity to meet growing enterprise demand, deepen our safety research, and support international expansion as we continue building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems," Anthropic said in a blog. Its run-rate revenue, which had grown to approximately $1 billion at the beginning of 2025, was more than $5 billion by August. The Amazon.com-backed company said the latest funding round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other major investors include the Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone and Coatue. U.S. startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025 thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever, a report from PitchBook showed in July. This year's boom has been driven largely by major AI investments and bold bets from big tech companies, a wave of activity that was set off by ChatGPT's late 2022 debut. Anthropic launched a National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council on Wednesday, aiming to deepen ties with Washington and allied governments as AI becomes increasingly central to defense and strategic planning. (Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Pooja Desai)