Anthropic Raises $3.5 Billion Series E, Valued at $61.5 Billion

Details

• Anthropic has secured $3.5 billion in Series E funding, reaching a $61.5 billion valuation, with Lightspeed Venture Partners leading the round alongside investors such as Salesforce Ventures, Cisco, and Fidelity.
• This raise follows significant investments from Amazon and Alphabet, with Anthropic’s total funding now standing at $18.2 billion since 2021.
• The new capital will be used to accelerate development of Claude 3.7 Sonnet’s advanced coding capabilities and expand compute infrastructure to support enterprise-scale AI collaboration tools.
• Anthropic’s Claude Code has recently demonstrated its impact by reducing clinical report writing time at Novo Nordisk from 12 weeks to just 10 minutes.
• Major enterprise adopters include Replit, which reported a tenfold increase in revenue attributed to Claude, and integrations with Alexa+, as well as deployments at Snowflake and Zoom to enhance knowledge sharing across teams.

Impact

This funding round significantly strengthens Anthropic’s position in the competitive AI foundation model landscape. As the company accelerates feature development and international expansion, it is poised to challenge leaders like OpenAI and Google in the race for enterprise and coding-focused AI solutions. The move also reflects ongoing investor confidence in large-scale, vertical-specific AI platforms and further intensifies competition for cloud and enterprise AI dominance.