‘A pressure cooker ready to explode’: The wild secondaries scramble for Anthropic shares
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A feeding frenzy in the animal kingdom is, at its core, vicious competition.
Key facts
If you’ve missed the ruckus: Anthropic, the maker of Claude and last publicly valued at a now-quaint $380 billion, is raising a new round of funding—the company’s reportedly looking to rake
At the start of this decade, Anthropic didn’t exist, and this year, the company’s ostensibly set to take in $45 billion
You want a block of Anthropic shares, you have 48 hours to submit the size of your offer
Anthropic has all this clumped-up, pent-up demand, and it’s like a pressure cooker ready to explode,” said Hari Raghavan, an angel investor and founder who’s currently starting a new fund
Summary
The idiom “feeding frenzy” gained prominence in the mid-century, first primarily to describe the behavior of sharks frenetically ripping into large schools of fish. If you’ve missed the ruckus: Anthropic, the maker of Claude and last publicly valued at a now-quaint $380 billion, is raising a new round of funding—the company’s reportedly looking to rake in as much as $50 billion at a valuation in the $900 billion ballpark. “Anthropic has all this clumped-up, pent-up demand, and it’s like a pressure cooker ready to explode,” said Hari Raghavan, an angel investor and founder who’s currently starting a new fund with longtime private capital markets executive Clara Vydyanath. And the demand for Anthropic is explosive, four industry insiders agreed.