{"id":104033,"date":"2025-07-30T05:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104033\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:53:23","slug":"anthropic-reportedly-nears-170b-valuation-with-potential-5b-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104033\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic reportedly nears $170B valuation with potential $5B round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise between $3 billion and $5 billion in funding, valuing the large language model developer at $170 billion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-29\/anthropic-nears-deal-to-raise-funding-at-170-billion-valuation?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MzgwOTIzOSwiZXhwIjoxNzU0NDE0MDM5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMDY0UlhHUFdDTVQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFODA3NUYyRkZGMjA0NUI2QTlEQzA5M0EyQTdEQTE4NiJ9.pE1KVeycxMIRWGzV5mKd2OS5FbxsNKIwUN7h2kP3gE8&amp;leadSource=uverify%20wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iconiq Capital is leading this funding round, but there\u2019s a possibility of a second lead investor joining the deal. The company has also been in talks with Qatar Investment Authority and GIC, Singapore\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If finalized, the deal would nearly triple Anthropic\u2019s valuation, which was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/03\/anthropic-raises-3-5b-to-fuel-its-ai-ambitions\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$61.5 billion<\/a> after a $3.5 billion funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners announced in March. Other participants in the startup\u2019s last round included Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management &amp; Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite Anthropic\u2019s mission as a safety-conscious AI model developer, the company\u2019s CEO, Dario Amodei, recently confessed in a memo to employees, reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/anthropic-dario-amodei-gulf-state-leaked-memo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">by Wired<\/a>, that he\u2019s \u201cnot thrilled\u201d about taking money from sovereign wealth funds of dictatorial governments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To keep pace with the massive capital requirements of developing AI models, the company has been forced to turn to Middle Eastern capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnfortunately, I think \u2018No bad person should ever benefit from our success\u2019 is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on,\u201d Amodei wrote in a leaked memo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 27-29, 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise between $3 billion and $5 billion in funding, valuing the large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24142,64,67179,339,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-104033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-iconiq-capital","11":"tag-in-brief","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114940635053597574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}