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Anthropic raises Series E at $61.5B post-money valuation
Anthropic has closed a $3.5 billion Series E round at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Bessemer, Cisco, Fidelity, General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures, and others. Proceeds will fund next-generation AI system development, expanded compute capacity, mechanistic interpretability and alignment research, and international expansion. The raise follows the launch of Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code, with Anthropic citing strong enterprise adoption across customers including Cursor, Zoom, Snowflake, Pfizer, and Amazon's Alexa+.
Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation
Anthropic completed a $13 billion Series F round led by ICONIQ, Fidelity, and Lightspeed, valuing the company at $183 billion post-money. The company reports run-rate revenue grew from ~$1 billion at the start of 2025 to over $5 billion by August 2025, serving over 300,000 business customers. Claude Code, launched in May 2025, is already generating over $500 million in run-rate revenue with usage growing more than 10x in three months. Proceeds will fund enterprise capacity expansion, safety research, and international growth.