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.”
