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Anthropic announced a $450 million Series C funding round led by Spark Capital, with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, and Zoom Ventures. Proceeds will fund expansion of Claude-based products, enterprise API growth, and AI safety research including alignment techniques. The announcement also highlights a 100K context window feature for Claude and notes Yasmin Razavi of Spark Capital joining the board. This is a historically significant funding round for a frontier safety-focused AI lab, though it predates the much larger rounds that followed.
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+.