Anthropic has raised $13 billion in new funding at a $183 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth since March. The round was led by Iconiq, Fidelity Management & Research, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Altimeter, General Catalyst, and Coatue.
The AI startup, founded by former OpenAI researchers including CEO Dario Amodei, has seen its valuation surge since launching its Claude AI assistant in March 2023. Run-rate revenue has risen from roughly $1 billion at the start of this year to more than $5 billion as of August, with Anthropic serving over 300,000 business customers.
“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 CFO Krishna Rao said in a statement.
Anthropic is one of the most prominent challengers to OpenAI, which is reportedly preparing a stock sale valuing it at around $500 billion. Backed by Amazon, Anthropic has positioned Claude as a safer, enterprise-focused AI system designed for global deployment.
The company said it will use the new capital to deepen AI safety research, meet rising enterprise demand, and expand internationally.
