United States-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic recently raised USD 13 billion, and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) contributed to the fundraising campaign. The sovereign wealth fund confirmed the investment. The company, which manages assets worth approximately USD 557 billion, did not reveal the amount it has set aside for the American company.
Anthropic is a safety and research firm that creates fundamental AI models and offers developers and businesses AI-powered tools. After the fundraising, the company is now valued at USD 183 billion, which was spearheaded by ICONIQ and involved a number of other significant international investors. The money will be used toward funding international growth and additional AI safety studies.
Talking about Anthropic’s USD 13 billion fundraise (Series F), this financing now values the AI startup at USD 183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment reflects Anthropic’s continued momentum and reinforces the company’s position as the leading intelligence platform for enterprises, developers, and power users.
Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said, “From Fortune 500 companies to AI-native startups, our customers rely on Anthropic’s frontier models and platform products for their most important, mission-critical work. We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base. This financing demonstrates investors’ extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and the strength of their collaboration with us to continue fuelling our unprecedented growth.”
Anthropic has seen rapid growth since the launch of Claude (next-generation AI assistant) in March 2023. At the beginning of 2025, less than two years after launch, Anthropic’s run-rate revenue had grown to approximately USD 1 billion. By August 2025, just eight months later, the startup’s run-rate revenue reached over USD 5 billion—making Anthropic one of the fastest-growing technology companies in history.
“Anthropic’s trajectory has been driven by our leading technical talent, our focus on safety, and our frontier research, including pioneering alignment and interpretability work, all of which underpin the performance and reliability of our models. Every day, more businesses, developers, and consumer power users are trusting Claude to help them solve their most challenging problems. Anthropic now serves over 300,000 business customers, and our number of large accounts—customers that each represent over USD 100,000 in run-rate revenue—has grown nearly 7x in the past year. This growth spans the entire Anthropic platform, with advancements for businesses, developers, and consumers,” the startup said.
For businesses, Anthropic’s API and industry-specific products make it easy to add powerful AI to their critical applications without complex integration work. Developers have made Claude Code their tool of choice since its full launch in May 2025. Claude Code has quickly taken off—already generating over USD 500 million in run-rate revenue with usage growing more than 10 times in just three months. For individual users, the Pro and Max plans for Claude deliver enhanced AI capabilities for everyday tasks and specialised projects.
“The Series F investment will expand our capacity to meet growing enterprise demand, deepen our safety research, and support international expansion as we continue building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems,” Anthropic concluded.