After Raising $13B in Funds, What’s Next for Anthropic?

Anthropic hits a new milestone. The company has raised an impressive $13 billion in new funding. This is huge for Anthropic, especially as many tech giants compete to be the ‘it’ AI company, the next big thing in AI. This fundraising is a Series F round, meaning it’s their sixth major round of funding. Post-money, Anthropic’s valuation reached $183 billion. With this influx of investors, Anthropic is now one of the world’s most valuable AI companies. Is this move a game-changer for Anthropic? What is it planning next? Learn more? 

Who Invested in Anthropic?

A long list of big investors in tech pooled money into Anthropic:

• Financial firms like BlackRock, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and T. Rowe Price.
• Big Global Investors like Qatar Investment Authority, GIC (Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund).
• Venture capital firms like Altimeter, General Catalyst, Coatue, Insight Partners, and Lightspeed.
• Pension funds like the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
• And some others like Jane Street, D1 Capital, WCM, XN.

Why Are They Investing in Anthropic?

AI is the new today and our very tomorrow. The demand for AI is only going to grow. And according to Anthropic’s CFO, Krishna Rao, several companies (from Fortune 500 companies to AI-first startups) are already incorporating Claude (Anthropic’s version of ChatGPT) in their work, meaning the company is seeing good traction. With this investment, Krishna Rao is confident that Anthropic’s traction will grow faster. 

How Fast Is Anthropic Growing?

• Anthropic launched its Claude (their version of ChatGPT) in March 2023.
• In early 2025, the company’s revenue surpassed $1 billion.
• Fast forward to August 2025, and that number went up to a whopping $5 billion in eight months.

What’s Driving This Big Growth For Anthropic?

• Talent + Research → Anthropic focused on having the top researchers on board to work on AI safety, alignment, and interpretability.
• Businesses → Anthropic works with 300,000 companies (who use Claude). Some large accounts pay over $100,000 each year. These numbers have grown 7x in the past year, showing how businesses across the world trust the company and its products.
• Focus on Developers → Anthropic introduced the Claude Code tool in May 2025. In just 3 months of its launch, the tool generated a sum of $500M with, and usage is growing 10x every month.
• Growing Individual Users → Not just businesses and developers, but also the regular everyday users, too, are opting for Pro and Max plans.

What Will Anthropic Do With This $13B?

According to the article posted as announcements on Anthropic, the company will use the funds:

• To meet the growing business demands.
• To deepen AI safety research, remember how the hackers were using Claude as a teacher to steal data and threaten the companies?
• To go international to reach wider audiences.
• To build more AI systems that are safe, explainable, and controllable. With Anthropic reaching such a milestone, it will be interesting to see how its competitors respond.