As someone who knows admittedly knows nothing about startup funding rounds, how many more rounds of funding can they do before an IPO? Is it effectively infinite?
That announcement is a bit short on details. I suppose that, like in the previous rounds, there are some strings attached and they'll not get all of it at once.
Hynix is participating with a new circular deal. Hynix is also valued at $1 trillion now, which is positively insane.
This scam will implode harder that the housing bubble.
Say you join Anthropic now as an employee. What are the chances of your equity appreciating in value? I don't think we have any historical precedents to this.
It's always a very borderline idea to hold equity in the company you work, argument being that if the company goes south or severely underperforms, you may find yourself laid off and with worthless equity.
So you're assuming lots of risk and putting it all in the same basket.
There's no shame in getting 100k $ worth of stock, selling it and putting it on some vanguard fund and diversifying, in fact it's statistically the best move you can do.
Of course, you can be like those many googlers that did this and then regret in hindsight.
This did round involve a secondary? If yes, any data to suggest that these secondaries are leading to increased spending outside of housing and propping up the local economy?
Anthropic has a great product, but what's going on in the stock market is astonishing. Companies waiting to be valued at a trillion dollars before going public? (I'm writing this comment with the assumption that they will go public soon and the valuation will be higher than this $965 billion dollar private valuation) The stock market used to be a place for companies to raise money from investors. But that isn't what it is anymore, it's a dumping ground. Venture capitalists & private investors are sucking all of the possible growth and future upside from these companies and then dumping them on retail investors when there's nothing left. There is no growth or upside left by the time these companies go public. If you invest in these IPOs you are buying the absolute peak with all potential future profits baked into the price, with nowhere left to go but down.
I wish I could invest into it, I'd at the very least have invested in their Series F. It was a no brainer by that point. If anyone could teach me how to get into stuff like this, that'd be awesome. I'm from the Netherlands, so not American. Though I'm married to an American.
I am not a financial advisor or even remotely an expert.
I did look into this briefly long ago for SpaceX. There are ways for relatively small investors (and I do mean relatively!) to get into some of these companies equity pre-exit by buying shares from employees who currently hold them for those who want to reduce risk/need the cash now vs. later.
You will likely need to have enough assets already with a single institution to have a private banking relationship with your bank. They would be the one to call to ask what options might be available. There are other options like EquityZen that make it more accessible, but I have not looked into those at all.
You will also need to be either an accredited investor or a qualified investor ($1M/$5M minimum networth not counting your personal property) depending on how each company is setup, but again I'm not entirely sure on details there.
I stopped looking into it when I was told that there was a $1M minimum buy-in at that time. More than I was looking to do at the time. I imagine it's much higher these days.
These are of course highly risk investments and I am unsure of how tested these structures are - so I imagine there is some counterparty risk on top of all the usual stuff.
> Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers, and our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month.
OK, so their self-reported run-rate revenue hit $47bn in early May.
Until Anthropic, OpenAI, and Tesla have IPOs and are then bound by some laws to be truthful, I don’t want to bother about their possible valuations.
I do care about: how useful their products are vs. cost and how secure are their businesses. Actually I only care about the first thing since these services are hot swap-able with some effort.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 44.3 ms ] threadHynix is participating with a new circular deal. Hynix is also valued at $1 trillion now, which is positively insane.
This scam will implode harder that the housing bubble.
So you're assuming lots of risk and putting it all in the same basket.
There's no shame in getting 100k $ worth of stock, selling it and putting it on some vanguard fund and diversifying, in fact it's statistically the best move you can do.
Of course, you can be like those many googlers that did this and then regret in hindsight.
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I did look into this briefly long ago for SpaceX. There are ways for relatively small investors (and I do mean relatively!) to get into some of these companies equity pre-exit by buying shares from employees who currently hold them for those who want to reduce risk/need the cash now vs. later.
You will likely need to have enough assets already with a single institution to have a private banking relationship with your bank. They would be the one to call to ask what options might be available. There are other options like EquityZen that make it more accessible, but I have not looked into those at all.
You will also need to be either an accredited investor or a qualified investor ($1M/$5M minimum networth not counting your personal property) depending on how each company is setup, but again I'm not entirely sure on details there.
I stopped looking into it when I was told that there was a $1M minimum buy-in at that time. More than I was looking to do at the time. I imagine it's much higher these days.
These are of course highly risk investments and I am unsure of how tested these structures are - so I imagine there is some counterparty risk on top of all the usual stuff.
OK, so their self-reported run-rate revenue hit $47bn in early May.
For comparison:
Apr 6th 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-c... - "Demand from Claude customers has accelerated in 2026. Our run-rate revenue has now surpassed $30 billion—up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025."
So that's $30bn at the start of April.
Feb 12th 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-s... - "Today, our run-rate revenue is $14 billion, with this figure growing over 10x annually in each of those past three years."
That was $14bn on Feb 12th.
And $9bn in December (according to the above April 6th link.)
funny enough - those 2 might not meet. then what happens ?
Instead of ARR they should report actual revenue for once.
Until they IPO and the investors make their money, who knows what is behind the revenue stated
I do care about: how useful their products are vs. cost and how secure are their businesses. Actually I only care about the first thing since these services are hot swap-able with some effort.