On April 15, Business Insider reported that, according to multiple sources, Anthropic, the startup that developed Claude, has received investment offers from several venture capital firms in recent weeks, with valuations reaching as high as $800 billion, more than double its current valuation.
Highly sought-after startups often receive early offers from investors, which they typically reject. Nevertheless, valuations from venture capital firms indicate near-frenzied demand for Anthropic shares as the company prepares for a potential IPO later this year.
Anthropic spokespeople declined to comment.
In February, Anthropic completed a funding round led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund (GIC) and Coatue, valuing the company at $380 billion. This is less than half the $852 billion valuation OpenAI achieved in its funding round last month.
On Caplight, a secondary market for trading privately held stocks, Anthropic is valued at $688 billion, a 75% increase in three months.
Anthropic’s rapid growth, particularly the strong performance of its AI programming assistant Claude Code, has amazed investors and founders alike. Jared Quincy Davis, founder and CEO of the AI cloud platform Mithril, praised Anthropic at the HumanX AI conference last week, saying, “They’re doing an exceptional job.”
Anthropic announced last week that its annual recurring revenue has surged to $30 billion from $9 billion at the end of last year. The company also stated that it now has over 1,000 enterprise customers paying more than $1 million annually, a number that has doubled in less than two months.
Last week, Anthropic released its latest large-scale model, Mythos, stating that its capabilities are too powerful and, due to cyberattack risks, it is not currently available to the public.
Thomas Tunguska, founder and general partner of venture capital firm Theory Ventures, said at the HumanX conference last week, “The Mythos model is significant, and the market is extremely excited about it.”
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