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Anthropic funding, valuation and investors

AI safety company building Claude frontier models, API, and enterprise agents for coding and knowledge work.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Series H

$65B · May 2026

Latest known valuation

$965B post-money

Series H · May 2026

Total disclosed equity funding

$95B

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth · San Francisco, California

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Altimeter Capital , Dragoneer Investment Group , Greenoaks , Sequoia Capital

Other: Coatue , D1 Capital , Amazon , Lightspeed Venture Partners

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-08-27

Overview

Anthropic is a San Francisco-based AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers including Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of frontier language models, offered via API, Claude.ai consumer and team plans, and Claude Enterprise (chat, Claude Code, and Cowork agents). Enterprises deploy Claude for coding, research, and agentic workflows with SSO, audit logs, and compliance controls. In May 2026, Anthropic raised $65B at a $965B post-money valuation in Series H — including ~$50B new capital plus ~$15B previously committed hyperscaler investment — led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. The round followed a $30B Series G in February 2026 at $380B.

Why Anthropic is interesting

Last company mark remains $965B (May 2026 Series H). Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 on June 1, 2026 (company). It is not public or priced as of August 27. Bloomberg people-familiar: public filing as soon as end of August. $1.5T is secondary talk, not a company round.

Product & use cases

Claude frontier models via API and enterprise products: Claude chat, Claude Code (developer agent), Cowork (autonomous multi-step agent), and Claude Enterprise with SSO/SCIM, audit logs, and cloud deployment on AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Azure.

  • Enterprise coding and software development (Claude Code)
  • Financial services and compliance-heavy research workflows
  • Multi-step autonomous agent tasks (Cowork, agent teams)
  • API embedding in customer-facing AI products

Key facts

  • Business Insider (Aug 14, 2026): secondary traders described prints as high as $1.5T; Anthropic declined to comment — not a company round
  • Bloomberg (Aug 15, 2026 via CNBC): Q2 2026 preliminary revenue more than $11.5B — a quarter, not a year; not the same figure as a $65B run-rate
  • Bloomberg (Aug 17, 2026): people familiar said July-end annualized run-rate topped $65B, up from $47B in May — not a company press release; run-rate is a projection, not audited annual revenue
  • $65B Series H at $965B valuation (May 28, 2026) — largest AI-lab equity round reported
  • Run-rate revenue crossed $47B in May 2026 per company coverage
  • Claude Enterprise self-serve launch (Feb 2026) with SSO, SCIM, audit logs
  • Founded 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei and OpenAI alumni
  • Confidential draft S-1 submitted June 1, 2026 (company). No public S-1, ticker, or priced IPO as of August 27, 2026
  • Bloomberg (Aug 20, 2026): people familiar said a public filing could come as soon as end of August; size talk vs SpaceX is not a company figure

Funding history (newest first)

Series H

2026-05 $65B Valuation: $965B post-money

Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h

Series G

2026-02 $30B Valuation: $380B post-money

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/anthropic-raises-another-30-billion-in-series-g-with-a-new-value-of-380-billion

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Anthropic's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Altimeter Capital Coatue D1 Capital Partners Sequoia Capital Lightspeed Venture Partners

Competitive landscape

Edge: Safety and trust positioning for enterprise procurement — plus rapid model iteration (Opus/Sonnet series) and deep AWS/Google distribution partnerships that put Claude inside existing cloud buying cycles.

Frontier AI is consolidating around a few labs with billion-dollar compute budgets. Anthropic's enterprise revenue concentration and safety brand differentiate it from OpenAI's broader consumer reach — but both compete for the same hyperscaler partnerships and enterprise wallet share.

  • OpenAI direct

    Largest frontier-model rival; GPT enterprise and Codex compete directly with Claude and Claude Code.

  • Google DeepMind direct

    Gemini models integrated into Google Cloud; competes on multimodal and workspace distribution.

  • xAI adjacent

    Elon Musk-backed lab targeting consumer and API markets; smaller enterprise footprint than Anthropic today.

Notable stories

  • Anthropic's Series H syndicate included crossover investors (Capital Group, Coatue, GIC) typical of pre-IPO rounds — Crunchbase called it a sign the company is on a path past $1T private valuation.
  • The company committed to not training on Claude Enterprise content by default — a procurement differentiator as enterprises evaluate frontier-model vendors.

Industries

AI & Machine Learning Enterprise SaaS Deep Tech

Market / IPO context

IPO status: filed

Note: Confidential draft S-1 on June 1, 2026 (company). Not a public S-1 or priced IPO as of August 27, 2026. Last company round remains $965B Series H.

Editorial / static context — not a live quote.

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FAQs about Anthropic

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Last company-announced mark: $965 billion post-money from the May 28, 2026 $65 billion Series H. Business Insider (Aug 14) cited secondary traders as high as $1.5 trillion; Anthropic declined to comment. Do not treat $1.5T as a company round.
Not as a company confirmation. That figure is secondary-market talk reported by Business Insider on August 14, 2026. Use $965B for the last company round.
Anthropic builds Claude frontier AI models and enterprise products including Claude chat, Claude Code, Cowork agents, and the Claude API for coding, research, and agentic workflows.
Anthropic raised $30B Series G in February 2026 at $380B valuation, then $65B Series H in May 2026 at $965B post-money — the largest reported AI-lab equity round.
Led by Altimeter Capital (/fund/altimeter-capital), Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia (/fund/sequoia). Co-led by Capital Group, Coatue (/fund/coatue), D1 Capital (/fund/d1-capital), GIC, and ICONIQ. Amazon committed $5B.
Both build frontier models for enterprise and API customers. Anthropic emphasizes safety/trust and Claude Code; OpenAI leads on ChatGPT consumer scale. Anthropic's May 2026 valuation ($965B) surpassed OpenAI's reported $840B mark.
Keep three figures separate: Q2 2026 preliminary revenue more than $11.5B (Bloomberg/CNBC, Aug 15) is a quarter. Series H cited ~$47B run-rate in May. Bloomberg (Aug 17) said people familiar put July-end annualized run-rate above $65B — a projection, not audited annual revenue.
Anthropic's enterprise plan ($20/seat/month plus usage at API rates) including Claude chat, Claude Code, Cowork, SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and compliance controls.
2021 in San Francisco by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other former OpenAI researchers.
A confidential draft S-1 was submitted June 1, 2026 (company). Anthropic remains private as of August 27, 2026. Share count and price are not set. Bloomberg people-familiar timing for a public filing is not a company date. See /2026-anthropic-ipo-confidential-s1.
Yes, confidentially. Anthropic’s June 1, 2026 post says it submitted a draft Form S-1 to the SEC. That is not a public S-1 and not a priced offering.
Directly via Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure, and AWS Marketplace for Enterprise.
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