DOUBLING DOWN ON ANTHROPIC
Recently, we announced Lightspeed’s lead investment in Anthropic’s $3.5 Billion Series E round.
Our team first engaged with Anthropic two years ago. At the time, they had fewer than 100 employees, no public product, and were pre-revenue. The company went on to launch industry-defining models, built strategic partnerships with industry giants including Google and AWS, and scaled at an incredible rate.
Our core belief at Lightspeed is that the biggest value from the development of AI will be unlocked at the foundation level. The most important applications are still being built, and the models that underpin them are essential to the next wave of AI evolution. So essential, in fact, that we estimate the next wave of AI technologies could power experiences and activities that represent $1.5 trillion in net-new revenue.
This new funding ushers in Anthropic’s next phase: a major advance in the next frontier of AI, and an acceleration of its adoption across the enterprise.
Read more about our investment here.
