Anthropic Valuation Hits $380 Billion as Enterprise AI Demand Explodes
Anthropic raised $30 billion in a Series G funding round that valued the company at $380 billion.
The round included a portion of the investments from Microsoft and Nvidia that were announced in November, the artificial intelligence startup said in a Thursday (Feb. 12) press release.
Anthropic was valued at $183 billion five months ago, when it raised $13 billion in a Series F funding round.
In its Thursday press release, Anthropic attributed the investors’ interest in part to the company’s strength in enterprise AI and coding, and it said it will use the new funding to support that strength with continued frontier research, product development and infrastructure expansions.
“Whether it is entrepreneurs, startups or the world’s largest enterprises, the message from our customers is the same: Claude is increasingly becoming critical to how businesses work,” Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao said in the release. “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.”
Anthropic’s run-rate revenue has grown to $14 billion, driven by demand from enterprises and developers, according to the release.
The number of customers spending over $100,000 annually on Claude increased sevenfold over the past year, and the number over $1 million annually grew from a dozen to 500 over the past two years, the release said.
Anthropic’s agentic coding tool, Claude Code, was made available to the general public in May and now has run-rate revenue of $2.5 billion, per the release.
Claude is also being deployed in financial and data analysis, sales, cybersecurity and scientific discovery, according to the release.
Anthropic’s latest funding round was led by GIC and Coatue.
“The team’s ability to rapidly scale its offerings further positions Anthropic as a leader in a highly competitive AI market,” Philippe Laffont, founder and portfolio manager of Coatue, said in the release.
Choo Yong Cheen, chief investment officer, private equity at GIC, said in the release: “Anthropic is the clear category leader in enterprise AI, demonstrating breakthrough capabilities and setting a new standard for safety, performance and scale that will drive their long-term success.”
Anthropic released a new version of its flagship AI model on Feb. 5, saying Claude Opus 4.6 is designed for enterprise and knowledge work.
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