Anthropic mints record gains in record time

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Anthropic S-1 details rapid AI growth, record IPO prospects, huge gains for Spark Capital, Bessemer, and a challenge to OpenAI.

Katie here. The Anthropic S-1 is here, and it confirms what VCs have been whispering for months: this is a company moving at warp speed. Just over three years after its first major VC round, Anthropic is poised to break IPO records and deliver historic wins to its earliest backers. It happened! After a fall full of delays, Anthropic’s S-1 finally dropped. What stood out to me was how incredibly fast Anthropic has scaled. Spark Capital was the first firm to lead a round into the AI giant in spring 2023 – just three and a half years ago. They own more than 1% of the company, an investment that could be worth tens of billions of dollars in short order.

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