Prime Highlight
- Anthropic raised $13 billion in a Series F round, led by Iconiq Capital and major global investors, pushing its valuation to $183 billion.
- The company’s revenue has surged, with run-rate revenue growing from $1 billion in early 2025 to over $5 billion by August.
Key Facts
- Anthropic now serves over 300,000 business clients, with accounts exceeding $100,000 growing sevenfold in the past year.
- Developer tool Claude Code, launched in May 2025, has already generated $500 million run-rate revenue in just three months.
Background
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup behind Claude, has raised $13 billion in fresh funding, pushing its valuation to $183 billion and cementing its position as one of the world’s most valuable AI companies.
The Series F round was led by Iconiq Capital with participation from Fidelity Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and a wide group of global investors, including GIC, Insight Partners, Qatar Investment Authority, BlackRock, and TPG. The valuation is among the highest in AI start-up history.
Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao added that the capital is a sign of confidence among investors and fast growing nature of the business. Exponential demand is being encountered by our customer base. This financing amounts to extraordinary faith in our performance and our capacity to scale higher, he said.
The company has expanded faster than ever since the release of Claude in March 2023. By the beginning of 2025, run-rate revenue was approximately one billion dollars. By August, it had reached over $5 billion. Anthropic has a total of over 300,000 business clients, and the size of accounts (creating over $100,000) increased almost seven times in the last year.
Its developer tool, Claude Code, released in May 2025, has already become popular, and just three months later, it has already generated more than 500 million dollars of run-rate revenue. The subscription plans of Claude Pro and Max have also contributed to increasing consumer adoption.
As per the investors, the great technical acumen, attention to safety, and dependable AI models of Anthropic became one of the primary factors inspiring trust. The new capital will enable the company to fulfill increasing enterprise demand, its activities in other countries, as well as engage more in AI safety and interpretability research.
With this new investment, Anthropic has demonstrated itself to be a key player in the fast-growing AI sector.
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