Anthropic has secured a $3.5 billion Series E investment at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation, positioning the AI developer to expand its compute capacity and accelerate international expansion. The substantial capital infusion follows the launch of Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code, building on Anthropic's continued product and commercial momentum.
The Series E funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, brings together an impressive consortium of institutional investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, among other new and existing investors.
With this investment, Anthropic will advance its development of next-generation AI systems, expand its compute capacity, deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and accelerate its international expansion. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has set a new high-water mark in coding abilities—an area where Anthropic plans to make further progress in the coming months.
Businesses across industries—from fast-growing startups to global corporations—are turning to Claude to transform their operations. The implementation cases demonstrate significant business impact:
- Replit integrated Claude into "Agent" to turn natural language into code, driving 10X revenue growth
- Thomson Reuters' tax platform CoCounsel uses Claude to assist tax professionals
- Novo Nordisk has used Claude to reduce clinical study report writing from 12 weeks to 10 minutes
- Claude now helps to power Alexa+, bringing advanced AI capabilities to millions of households and Prime members
Beyond startups, global corporations like Zoom, Snowflake and Pfizer are also leveraging Claude to transform their operations, though specific implementation details are not provided in the announcement.