Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the startup behind Claude at as much as $800 billion in recent weeks, more than double its current valuation, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
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Buzzy startups frequently field preemptive offers from investors only to rebuff them.<\/p>\n
Still, the valuations VCs are floating indicate the feverish demand that has overtaken Silicon Valley for a stake in Anthropic<\/a> as the company prepares for a possible IPO later this year.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Anthropic declined to comment.<\/p>\n Anthropic closed a funding round in February<\/a> led by GIC and Coatue that valued the company at $380 billion. That is less than half the $852 billion valuation OpenAI achieved in the funding round it closed last month.<\/p>\n Anthropic is valued at $688 billion on Caplight, a secondary exchange where investors can trade shares of privately held companies. That is up 75% in three months.<\/p>\n Investors and founders have been wowed by Anthropic’s torrid growth and momentum around AI-powered coding assistant Claude code.<\/p>\n “They’re crushing it,” Jared Quincy Davis, founder and CEO of Mithril, an AI cloud platform, said about Anthropic last week at HumanX, an AI conference.<\/p>\n Anthropic’s run-rate revenue, the revenue a company expects to collect over a year, has soared to $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of last year, the company announced last week. <\/a>It also added that over 1,000 business customers are spending more than $1 million a year, a figure that has doubled in less than two months.<\/p>\n