Some moments redefine technology’s trajectory — from the first Macintosh experience to ordering an early Uber or riding in a Waymo. For many, Anthropic’s Claude Code represents that same transformative leap: combining cutting-edge foundation models with intuitive code generation, expanding AI creation beyond engineers to global innovators.
Claude Code has rapidly scaled, becoming one of the fastest products to surpass $1 billion in annual recurring revenue. Anthropic itself has grown tenfold year over year, achieving remarkable scale with fewer than 5,000 employees — a testament to operational efficiency and disciplined execution.
Innovation continues at pace. The recent release of Opus 4.6 has significantly expanded production-ready code capabilities, while introducing refined product intuition — shifting AI from reactive tools to systems with design sensibility. This evolution is enhancing productivity and innovation across enterprises and IVP’s portfolio companies worldwide.
IVP has now participated in Anthropic’s latest financing round. The firm, known for backing technology leaders such as Netflix, Seagate, CrowdStrike, Datadog, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Snap, sees Anthropic as a company with extraordinary long-term potential — comparable to today’s leading public technology giants.
Claude has quickly become indispensable for drafting, building, researching, and making sense of complex data. Not because it is novel, but because it is genuinely useful. What makes Anthropic special is the combination: a world-class team that expands the frontier of AI, transforms that capability into elegant products, and brings them to market in a way enterprises trust. We believe Anthropic will be an era-defining company.
Beyond product innovation, Anthropic’s leadership is shaping industry direction. CEO Dario Amodei’s perspective on the “Adolescence of Technology” highlights both AI’s transformative promise and its inherent risks. As AI advances toward AGI, trust, safety, and collaborative governance among industry, government, and startups will be critical.
Anthropic’s trajectory reflects not only technological acceleration but a broader blueprint for responsible AI innovation in the decades ahead.
