Anthropic announced on Thursday that it closed a $30 billion Series G fundraising round, raising its valuation to $380 billion from $183 billion following its Series F round.
Details of the round surfaced earlier this week in a Bloomberg report. Singaporean wealth fund GIC and investment management firm Coatue led the effort. Co-leads included D.E. Shaw Ventures, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Abu Dhabi’s MGX. Additional investors listed Accel, General Catalyst, Jane Street, and the Qatar Investment Authority, along with many others.
The funding arrives amid competition with OpenAI for customers and market attention. OpenAI recently disclosed plans to raise another $100 billion, which would lift its valuation to approximately $830 billion if successful.
Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao commented in a press release: “Whether it is entrepreneurs, startups, or the world’s largest enterprises, the message from our customers is the same: Claude is increasingly becoming more critical to how businesses work.” Rao continued: “This fundraising reflects the incredible demand we are seeing from these customers, and we will use this investment to continue building the enterprise-grade products and models they have come to depend on.”
