San Francisco-based Anthropic has secured a $13 billion Series F financing round, raising its valuation to $183 billion post-money. The funding will be used to scale enterprise adoption of its AI products, deepen safety research, and support international expansion.
The round was co-led by Iconiq, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from a broad syndicate of institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms and venture capital backers. Among them were Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Insight Partners, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Qatar Investment Authority, and others.
Enterprise adoption drives Anthropic growth
Anthropic has seen rapid acceleration in business adoption of its AI platform. The company now serves over 300,000 business customers, with the number of large enterprise accounts, defined as those generating more than $100,000 in run-rate revenue, growing nearly sevenfold in the past year.
The company highlighted the impact of its developer-facing tools, particularly Claude Code, which it described as a “vibe-coding” product. Claude Code has become a significant revenue driver, already generating over $500 million in annualised run-rate revenue with usage increasing more than tenfold in the past three months.
“Our entire customer base is experiencing exponential growth in demand,” said Krishna Rao, CFO of Anthropic. “This financing demonstrates investors’ extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and the strength of their collaboration with us to continue fuelling our unprecedented growth.”
CEO Dario Amodei has previously acknowledged the challenges of maintaining growth in a highly competitive AI market, with rivals including OpenAI and Cursor. According to a memo reported earlier this year, Amodei noted the difficulty of raising sufficient capital while avoiding investment from sovereign wealth funds of authoritarian governments, remarking that it is “difficult to run a business by excluding bad people from investing.”
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