Anthropic closed a $13 billion Series F round that drew some of the biggest names in Wall Street finance. ICONIQ Capital, Fidelity, and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the deal, but the list of backers goes far deeper. Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, Coatue, Goldman Sachs (GS), Jane Street, T. Rowe Price (TROW), Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and BlackRock-linked (BLK) funds all joined in.
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This lineup reads like a who’s who of global finance. Their willingness to pour money into Anthropic shows how strongly institutional investors believe in artificial intelligence as the next disruptive technology. For a private company to attract this level of attention is rare, and it signals that AI has already passed the stage of being a niche experiment.
Investors Push Anthropic’s Valuation to New Heights
At the start of the year, Anthropic was valued at around $60 billion. This number has now tripled, putting the company at $183 billion. The jump is not just about investor enthusiasm; Anthropic has real traction to point to. Its revenue run rate has already passed $5 billion, and it has more than 300,000 business customers.
For a company still in the early stages of commercializing its technology, these figures are remarkable. They help explain why the funding round was so oversubscribed and why investors are willing to give Anthropic such a high valuation. Even so, the speed of this rise has stunned parts of the market, showing how much faith is being placed in Claude AI.
Claude Expands into Crypto
Claude was designed as a general-purpose AI, but one of the most surprising areas where it has gained traction is in crypto. Coinbase (COIN) has been using Claude to handle customer support and internal operations. The system processes thousands of messages per hour, helping millions of users get quicker answers and cutting down handling times.
Crypto.com has also adopted Claude 3 models through Amazon’s (AMZN) Bedrock platform. It uses the AI to scan global markets and provide real-time sentiment analysis. That is a critical tool in an industry that trades nonstop and needs quick responses to shifting conditions.
These examples show how AI is not just an add-on for the crypto sector. It could become a backbone for keeping up with compliance and market monitoring. As Konstantin Anissimov of Currency.com wrote, the move to “AI-powered decision systems” is already happening. AI can map wallet behaviors, flag anomalies across blockchains, and check for regulatory mismatches. These are tasks that humans alone cannot perform at the speed required.
Anthropic Becomes a Force to Watch
Anthropic’s journey is only beginning. The company has a war chest of new funding and a valuation that now places it among the largest private tech firms in the world. As a result, it’s likely that the company has plenty of room to expand Claude’s role. While its links to crypto are still limited, they are growing fast. The adoption by Coinbase and Crypto.com suggests that crypto may be one of the industries where Claude proves its real-world worth.
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