Anthropic, a US-based AI safety and research company, has secured $13bn in a Series F funding round, pushing its valuation to $183bn.
The financing was led by ICONIQ Capital. The co-leads in the funding round include Fidelity Management & Research and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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Additional investment came from the Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone, and Coatue, among others.
The funding aims to bolster Anthropic’s enterprise adoption initiatives, deepen its safety research, and support international expansion efforts.
Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said: “We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base.
“This financing demonstrates investors’ extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and the strength of their collaboration with us to continue fuelling our unprecedented growth.”
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By GlobalDataThis new valuation marks a significant jump from March 2025 when the company was valued at $61.5bn. This was after a $3.5bn raise in a Series E round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Earlier reports in July 2025, indicated Anthropic was finalising a funding round targeting a $170bn valuation, with expectations to raise up to $5bn. The company has surpassed these projections with the latest round.
Anthropic is backed by major tech players such as Alphabet and Amazon.
Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, it focuses on developing sophisticated AI models, especially for coding applications. In November 2024, Amazon increased its investment by an additional $4bn, raising its total stake to $8bn.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) serves as Anthropic’s primary training partner, providing AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips for future model development.
Google also expanded its financial backing of Anthropic with over $1bn invested early in 2025, supplementing a previous $2bn investment in 2023. Anthropic’s revenue trajectory has been steep, growing from approximately $1bn at the start of 2025 to motr thsn $5bn by August.
In the realm of product development, Anthropic launched an upgrade called Opus 4.1 in August for its Claude large language models. This upgrade enhances capabilities related to agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
In August 2025, Anthropic announced that it would offer its Claude model to the US government for $1. This move aligns Claude with other approved AI solutions like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini as recognised vendors by the US government’s central purchasing arm.
