Overview
- The financing was led by GIC and Coatue with co-leads D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ and MGX, alongside Sequoia, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Temasek and the Qatar Investment Authority, and previously announced Microsoft and Nvidia commitments folded in.
- Anthropic says customers spending more than $100,000 annually grew sevenfold in a year, with over 500 now paying above $1 million.
- The company plans to invest the proceeds in accelerating model research, expanding enterprise products and scaling compute and infrastructure.
- Claude Code, launched in May 2025, has a $2.5 billion run rate as revenue and weekly users more than doubled since early 2026, and the company says it accounts for about 4% of public GitHub commits.
- The new valuation roughly doubles the company’s worth over the past six months.