Valuation & funding

Anthropic's valuation: $965B

After its $65B Series H, Anthropic is valued at $965B post-money, the most valuable private AI company in the world. Here's the full funding history and what's behind the number.

Latest valuation $965B Series H post-money
Market cap After IPO
Revenue run-rate $65B annualized (End Jul 2026)
Implied multiple ~15× valuation / run-rate

Figures as of October 2026. Valuation is the most recent post-money round; run-rate is an annualized company figure.

Does Anthropic have a market cap?

Anthropic's most recent post-money valuation is $965B, set by the $65B Series H that closed in May 2026. That is the figure most people are after when they search for its market cap. A true market cap only exists once a company's shares trade publicly, which won't happen until Anthropic's IPO.

Funding round history

Every disclosed round, newest first, with the post-money valuation it set.

Anthropic funding rounds: amounts and post-money valuations (USD).
Round Date Raised Post-money Lead investors
Series H May 2026 $65B $965B Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital
Google strategic commitment April 2026 $10B $350B Alphabet (Google)
Series G February 2026 $30B $380B GIC, Coatue
Series H May 2026
$965B

$65B raised · led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital

Co-led by Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital, GIC, ICONIQ, and XN. Includes $15B of previously committed hyperscaler investment ($5B from Amazon). Likely the last private round before an IPO.

Google strategic commitment April 2026
$350B

$10B raised · led by Alphabet (Google)

Up to $40B committed: $10B immediate at a $350B valuation, with $30B contingent on performance targets.

Series G February 2026
$380B

$30B raised · led by GIC, Coatue

More than doubled valuation versus prior round.

Earlier rounds, 2021 to 2025

Before the rounds above, Anthropic raised money in smaller venture rounds and in staged strategic deals with Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia. Amounts include tranches paid over time.

Anthropic's earlier funding rounds and strategic investments (USD).
Round Date Raised Post-money Lead investors Notes
Microsoft & Nvidia November 2025 $15B Not disclosed Microsoft, Nvidia Up to $5B from Microsoft and up to $10B from Nvidia, alongside Anthropic's $30B Azure commitment. Part of it was later counted in the Series G.
Series F September 2025 $13B $183B ICONIQ, Fidelity, Lightspeed Venture Partners Three times the Series E valuation, six months later.
Series E March 2025 $3.5B $61.5B Lightspeed Venture Partners Run-rate revenue was in the low billions at the time.
Amazon November 2024 $4B Not disclosed Amazon Doubled Amazon's total to $8B; AWS also became the primary training partner.
Series D February 2024 $750M $18.4B Menlo Ventures Reported rather than announced; the valuation comes from press reports at the time.
Google October 2023 $2B Not disclosed Alphabet (Google) $500M up front and $1.5B over time, on top of an earlier, smaller stake.
Amazon September 2023 $4B Not disclosed Amazon $1.25B up front and $2.75B more in March 2024. AWS became Anthropic's primary cloud provider.
Series C May 2023 $450M Not disclosed Spark Capital Google, Salesforce Ventures and Zoom Ventures also took part.
Series B April 2022 $580M Not disclosed FTX (Sam Bankman-Fried) FTX supplied $500M of it. After FTX collapsed, its bankruptcy estate sold the stake in 2024 for about $884M, mostly to investors in the UAE.
Series A May 2021 $124M Not disclosed Jaan Tallinn, Dustin Moskovitz The founding round, a few months after the founders left OpenAI.

Who these investors are, and what they own today, is on the investors page.

Revenue trajectory

Annualized run-rate revenue, the metric Anthropic reports publicly.

  • End 2025 (est.) $9B
  • Feb 2026 $14B
  • Early Mar 2026 $19B
  • Early Apr 2026 $30B
  • May 2026 $47B
  • End Jul 2026 $65B
Behind the number

What drives Anthropic's valuation

Anthropic's valuation went from $61.5 billion in its Series E in March 2025 to $965B post-money in May 2026. Almost all of that rise tracks revenue. Annualized run-rate revenue grew from the low billions to tens of billions over the same stretch, so the price investors pay for each dollar of revenue has fallen even as the headline valuation climbed.

At $965B on a run-rate of $65B, Anthropic is valued at about 15 times annualized revenue. Treat that as a rough yardstick: a run-rate annualizes a recent month, and the valuation is a post-money figure from a private round.

Investors are paying for growth and for position. Claude Code and enterprise contracts have produced one of the fastest revenue ramps in software history, and Anthropic is one of only a handful of labs able to train frontier models. Its backers also count on the reported move to adjusted operating profit in 2026 holding as revenue keeps growing.

The multiple can fall as fast as it rose. Slower growth, a price war with OpenAI and Google, or a compute bill that grows faster than revenue would all cut what investors are willing to pay, and private valuations tend to adjust in sudden steps at the next round rather than gradually.

How does Anthropic's valuation compare to OpenAI's?

The two leading private AI labs are valued on very different revenue multiples. Anthropic is now both more valuable and trading on a lower multiple of revenue, a reversal from a year earlier.

Private AI labs: valuation vs annualized revenue run-rate.
Company Valuation Revenue run-rate Implied multiple As of
Anthropic (this page) $965B $65B ~15× July 2026
OpenAI $852B $40B ~21× July 2026

Sources: latest post-money rounds and Sacra reporting. Private valuations are set at funding events, not by a live market.

More on OpenAI's valuation, IPO, and how to invest is available at OpenAI Stock.

Read the full valuation analysis →

How a private valuation is set

A private company's valuation is the price agreed in its latest funding round, applied to all its shares. The post-money figure includes the money just raised. It is negotiated between the company and a small group of investors, not set by a market that trades every day.

Different deals quote different bases. The Series G valued Anthropic at $350 billion before the new money and $380 billion after it, and both the employee tender offer in February 2026 and Google's April 2026 investment used the $350 billion figure. Late-round investors also usually receive preferred shares with protections that ordinary shareholders don't get, which is one reason a headline valuation can overstate what common stock is worth.

Between rounds, shares in private companies change hands on secondary markets and through special-purpose vehicles, usually only for accredited or professional investors. Those prices can sit well above or below the last round and are not an official valuation.

What changes at the IPO

Once Anthropic lists, its value will be set every trading day by the share price times the number of shares: its market capitalization. Press reports in September 2026 described a target of around $2 trillion for the offering, but the final price depends on demand during the roadshow and can change in the weeks before pricing.

The comparison with today's figure will be less direct than it looks. The public share count will include employee equity and any new shares sold in the IPO, and different share classes may carry different votes.

Follow the listing on the IPO page.