The round was led by ICONIQ and co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Anthropic disclosed that it will use the capital to meet enterprise demand, advance safety research, and expand internationally.

Additional participants included Altimeter; Baillie Gifford; affiliated funds of BlackRock; Blackstone; Coatue; D1 Capital Partners; General Atlantic; General Catalyst; GIC; Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ Growth Equity; Insight Partners; Jane Street; Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan; Qatar Investment Authority; TPG; T. Rowe Price Associates and T. Rowe Price Investment Management; WCM Investment Management; and XN.

The valuation more than doubled from March 2025, when Anthropic raised $3.5 billion at $61.5 billion post-money, according to public disclosures and media reports at the time. Reuters also reported the company’s revenue run-rate rose from about $1 billion at the start of 2025 to more than $5 billion by August.

Anthropic develops the Claude family of models and tools for enterprise and developer use. The company has said it plans to expand capacity for large customers, deepen safety work, and support product development for businesses, developers, and individual users with the new funding.

The round places Anthropic among the most highly valued private AI firms today. OpenAI, a leading competitor, disclosed in March that it would raise up to $40 billion in a Softbank-led round at a $300 billion post-money valuation, with financing arriving in tranches through year-end, according to the company and Softbank.

Another competitor is Elon Musk’s xAI, developer of the Grok chatbot. Reports this year placed xAI near $80 billion in early 2025, with subsequent funding talks exploring valuations between roughly $120 billion and as high as $200 billion. generative

Studies have shown that generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like Anthropic’s, OpenAI’s, and xAI’s could boost global economic output by trillions of dollars annually. Anthropic counts major technology companies among its backers, including Amazon and Google parent Alphabet, which have provided strategic partnerships alongside capital.

The company’s latest financing follows product updates to its Claude lineup and continuing enterprise adoption reported across industries. ICONIQ said it led financing as part of its focus on enterprise AI. Interestingly, before Anthropic and Claude was a big name in AI, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried personally invested $500 million in the company back in 2021.

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