{"id":26328,"date":"2026-05-04T06:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26328\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:42:33","slug":"anthropic-nears-1-5-billion-joint-venture-with-wall-street-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26328\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic nears $1.5 billion joint venture with Wall Street firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) startup <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/anthropic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthropic<\/a> is close to finalising a $1.5 billion joint venture with major Wall Street firms to sell AI tools to companies backed by them, according to a report in the The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter.<br \/>The deal is said to bring together leading financial investors, with alternative asset manager <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/blackstone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blackstone<\/a> and private equity firm <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/hellman-friedman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hellman &amp; Friedman<\/a> expected to act as anchor backers. Each is likely to invest around $300 million. <\/p>\n<p>Investment bank and wealth management firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/goldman-sachs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Goldman Sachs<\/a>, is also expected to take part as a founding investor, contributing about $150 million, the report added. <\/p>\n<p>An official announcement could come as soon as Monday, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>By selling artificial intelligence tools directly to companies backed by these private equity firms, Anthropic will get access to a large and valuable customer base.<\/p>\n<p>IPO plans and rising valuations<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic is reportedly working to strengthen its financial position as it prepares for a possible initial public offering this year. The company is considering going public as early as October. According to a report by The Information in March, the listing could raise more than $60 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg reported last week that the AI company is also exploring a new funding round that could value it at more than $900 billion. That would be more than double its previous valuation, although discussions are still at an early stage and no formal offers have been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic\u2019s last funding round took place in February, when it raised $30 billion at a valuation of $380 billion. Back in March 2025, the company was valued at around $61.5 billion, showing how quickly its valuation has grown.<\/p>\n<p>If the funding round goes through, Anthropic could become the most valuable private AI company, surpassing even OpenAI, which is currently valued at about $852 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic is close to finalising a $1.5 billion joint venture with major Wall Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17596,53,17562,2742,17597,1296,17598,17599],"class_list":{"0":"post-26328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anthropic","8":"tag-1-5-billion-investment","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-anthropic-joint-venture","11":"tag-blackstone","12":"tag-blackstone-investment","13":"tag-goldman-sachs","14":"tag-goldman-sachs-investment","15":"tag-hellman-friedman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}