Generative AI company
Anthropic
announced Thursday that it
raised $30 billion
in a massive Series G funding round that values it at $380 billion post-money. The financing marks the largest venture funding deal of 2026 so far and the second-largest of all time, per
Crunchbase data
, following only rival
OpenAI
’s
$40 billion funding
in 2025.
GIC
and
Coatue
led the raise, which was also “co-led” by
D.E. Shaw & Co. Ventures
,
Dragoneer Investment Group
,
Founders Fund
,
Iconiq Capital
and
MGX
, according to the company. A slew of other backers participated in the round as well, and included
previously announced investments
from
Microsoft
and
Nvidia
.
With this round, San Francisco-based Anthropic has now raised nearly $64 billion since its 2021 inception, per
Crunchbase
.
The Claude chatbot developer remains the second-most highly valued generative AI startup behind rival OpenAI, which in October
secured financing
at a $500 billion valuation. Anthropic is also the fourth-
most highly valued private company
in the world, per Crunchbase data. It and OpenAI are
reportedly both considering
IPOs this year.
Anthropic’s growth
Anthropic says its run-rate revenue is now over $14 billion, a figure it claims grew over 10x annually in each of the past three years since it “earned its first dollar in revenue.”
The number of customers spending over $100,000 annually on Claude (as represented by run-rate revenue) has grown 7x in the past year, the company added.
Anthropic says the investment will fuel 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 more critical to how businesses work,” said
Krishna Rao
, Anthropic’s chief financial officer, in
a statement
. “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.”
Chris Emanuel
, head of the technology investment group at GIC, said in a statement that his firm believes that “Anthropic’s thoughtful approach to AI development is changing the way enterprises operate.”
He added: “Our partnership and continued investment reflects our conviction in their visionary leadership team and technical depth as they expand access to advanced AI tools.”
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Illustration:
Dom Guzman
— Source: Crunchbase News (https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/anthropic-raises-30b-second-largest-deal-all-time/)