Anthropic Pledges 5% to Its Own Fund
Anthropic pledges 5% of its shares to a fund it wholly owns, days after New York City's comptroller urged it to delay its IPO.
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AI research company behind Claude, with an emphasis on the reliability and safety of AI systems. Coverage follows its models, research, products and business.
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Reviewed 19 October 2026. Dates retain the precision of the source; retrospective disclosures are identified in the event. Company and product revenue run rates overlap and must not be added together.
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Revenue, funding, product launches and major company events, newest first. Expand the earlier milestones for more history.
Reported Q3 revenue reaches $16.8B
Reuters cites investor-day attendees reporting Q1 revenue of $4.7B, Q2 of $11.6B and Q3 of $16.8B. These are reported quarterly totals, not ARR or audited public-company earnings.
Source: ReutersReleases Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic updates the model family with a focus on capable, lower-cost work, following its earlier Claude 4 and 5 generations.
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$65B Series H; run rate exceeds $47B
Anthropic announces $65B in financing at a $965B post-money valuation and says its revenue run rate crossed $47B earlier in May.
Source: Anthropic$14B company run rate; Claude Code exceeds $2.5B
The company reports $14B in annualized revenue, with Claude Code above $2.5B. The product figure is included in the company business, not additional company revenue.
Source: Anthropic$30B Series G at $380B valuation
GIC and Coatue lead the round supporting research, product development and compute infrastructure.
Source: AnthropicRun rate grows from about $1B to over $5B
Anthropic discloses approximately $1B at the start of 2025 and over $5B by August; Claude Code separately exceeds $500M. These are annualized snapshots.
Source: Anthropic$13B Series F at $183B valuation
ICONIQ leads the financing, co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed, as Anthropic reports over 300,000 business customers.
Source: AnthropicClaude 4 and Claude Code general availability
Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 arrive alongside the broader release of Claude Code, extending the platform into agentic software development.
Source: Anthropic$3.5B Series E at $61.5B valuation
Lightspeed leads funding for capacity, international expansion and enterprise products.
Source: AnthropicIntroduces Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Artifacts
The release combines a new model with a workspace for generated content, broadening Claude beyond a chat-only interface.
Source: AnthropicIntroduces the Claude 3 model family
Opus, Sonnet and Haiku establish a tiered model lineup for different capability, speed and cost needs.
Source: AnthropicRaises $450M Series C
Spark Capital leads the round to develop safer AI systems and expand the company’s commercial offering.
Source: AnthropicIntroduces Claude
Anthropic launches its assistant through chat and API, moving its research into an initial commercial product.
Source: AnthropicRaises $580M Series B
The round supports research into steerable, interpretable and reliable AI, preceding Claude’s public launch.
Source: AnthropicRaises $124M Series A
The initial institutional financing supports the company’s research into more reliable general-purpose AI systems.
Source: AnthropicAnthropic is established
The company is founded with a focus on AI safety and research; Claude’s public commercial history begins in 2023.
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