6 Ways to Invest in Anthropic

While ChatGPT has garnered more of the headlines, there's another AI chatbot that's gaining in popularity — Claude AI.

Claude is an AI assistant that can process huge quantities of information, help generate text or ideas, write code, and simplify tasks.

The company behind Claude — Anthropic — is an AI safety and research business founded in 2021 by former senior members of OpenAI (the lab behind ChatGPT).

Revenue is surging. It reached a $4 billion annual run rate in July 2025 just one month after crossing a $3 billion run rate. Unsurprisingly, investors have been pouring in.

In March 2025, Anthropic raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation, more than triple the $18.4 billion valuation it received in May 2024.

It has now raised $18 billion in funding, including big investments from Google ($3.3 billion) and Amazon ($8 billion).

Despite this size, it's still a private company. There is no Anthropic stock symbol and the company has no plans to IPO in the near future.

But you don't need to wait for it to go public before you invest.

Here are six ways to invest in Anthropic stock while it's still a private company.

1. Buy shares directly from current shareholders

Despite Anthropic being a private company, it is possible to invest in its stock through a secondary marketplace called Hiive.

Hiive is a pre-IPO marketplace platform that allows accredited investors to buy and sell shares in private companies and startups.

Accreditation requirements

To qualify as an accredited investor, you must meet one of the following criteria:

• Have an annual income of $200,000 individually or $300,000 jointly.
• Have a net worth that exceeds $1,000,000, excluding your main residence.
• Be a qualifying financial professional.

There are over 2,000 pre-IPO companies on Hiive, including Databricks, Figure AI, and Anthropic:

There weren't any shares available at the time of writing, but that can change quickly. Anthropic is one of the most active companies on Hiive.

You can see if there's more supply now, but even if there's not, you can still register for Hiive, add Anthropic to your watchlist, and get notified of any new listings (check here).

Listings are created by existing shareholders who are typically current or former employees, venture capitalists, or angel investors.

Every seller sets their own asking price and quantity of shares. Buyers can either accept the asking prices or place bids.

After creating an account, both buyers and sellers can see the full order book of bids and asks and see the exact prices at which Anthropic's shares are trading.

Hit the button below to create your free account:

Register for Hiive

2. Invest in the Fundrise Innovation Fund

Fundrise's Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund that is open to all investors.

The fund invests in privately-held technology companies across multiple verticals including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data. It has invested in 20 pre-IPO companies and has stakes in OpenAI, Anduril Industries, and Anthropic.

The Innovation Fund has a minimum investment of just $10 and a 1.85% annual management fee.

As is the case with the ARK Venture Fund (which I cover next), Anthropic is just one of the Innovation Fund's holdings. If you do invest in either of these funds, remember that you're buying a stake in the entire portfolio.

3. Invest in the ARK Venture Fund

Another way to gain exposure to Anthropic is to invest in Cathie Wood's ARK Venture Fund. As of July, Anthropic is the fund's 6th largest holding, making up 3.15% of the total fund:

The fund invested in Anthropic in July 2023. It likely invested at a valuation of between $2–4 billion, which would mean the stake has at least quadrupled in value.

The ARK Venture Fund invests in what it considers to be the world's most innovative companies.

It owns stakes in both privately held and publicly traded companies, though its largest positions (SpaceX, Neuralink, OpenAI, Lambda, xAI, and Anthropic) are all private companies.

Accredited investors can invest in the ARK Venture Fund via ARK's website. Additionally, all retail investors can invest in the fund via SoFi.

The fund has total annual fees of 2.90%.

4. Invest in Anthropic's partners

Microsoft's close ties to OpenAI — which include $11 billion in investments (mainly in the form of free compute) and a profit-sharing agreement — have drawn a lot of scrutiny in the technology and antitrust worlds.

But that didn't stop Alphabet's Google (GOOGL) from jumping on a similar opportunity.

Google invested $300 million in Anthropic in April 2023, giving it a 10% stake. Anthropic later announced it would also be using Google's cloud computing services.

This alliance is expected to supply Anthropic with funding and cloud-computing resources, while Google may get special access to the company's research and technology.

Google invested an additional $2 billion in October 2023 and another $1 billion in January 2025, bringing its total investment to $3.3 billion.

In September 2023, Amazon (AMZN) invested $1.25 billion in Anthropic and struck a deal to invest as much as $4 billion in the company. In May 2024, Amazon wrote a check for the remaining $2.75 billion.

In November 2024, Amazon invested an additional $4 billion*, bringing its total funding to $8 billion.

*This $4 billion was raised as a convertible note, a type of debt that can be converted to equity (at a pre-determined valuation) at a later date. The valuation was not disclosed.

Amazon's massive stake in Anthropic is its largest outside investment in the history of the company. This may represent Amazon's best effort to compete with its cloud rivals (Google and Microsoft) in AI.

The first deal, in September 2023, included early access to Anthropic's technology for Amazon's employees and cloud customers. 

Anthropic also committed to relying on Amazon's cloud services, including training its future AI models on proprietary chips it would buy from Amazon.

In the second deal, in November 2024, Amazon Web Services became Anthropic's "primary cloud and training partner" and AWS customers gained some perks as well.

5. Invest in other AI companies and funds

While it's not the same as investing in Anthropic, there are other ways to gain exposure to the generative AI industry.

As mentioned above, because of their partnerships with both OpenAI and Anthropic, investing in Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOGL), and Amazon (AMZN) would give you some exposure to generative AI.

That said, these are multi-trillion dollar companies, so be sure you like the non-generative AI aspects of their businesses, too.

Meta Platforms (META) has also been pouring money into its AI lab since 2013. The lab is focused on generative AI, computer vision, and human speech processing technologies.

If you're not sure which company is going to benefit the most from advancements in LLMs and generative AI, you may want to own many companies at once via an ETF.

A few options are:

• Roundhill Generative AI & Technology ETF (CHAT)
• Themes Generative Artificial Intelligence ETF (WISE)

6. Wait for the Anthropic IPO

If none of the above options fit what you're looking for, your final option is to wait for Anthropic to go public.

But you may be waiting awhile — the company has not indicated any IPO plans.

Given its run rate of more than $4 billion in annual revenue (up from $3 billion just one month earlier) and its current list of very deep-pocketed backers, Anthropic will have no reason to turn to the public markets until it's ready.

If it ever does go public, you'll need a brokerage account to buy it. And if you happen to be in the market, we recommend Public.

How much is Anthropic worth?

As mentioned above, Anthropic's most recently raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation in March 2025. This was up from the $18.4 billion it had earned just 10 months earlier, in May 2024.

Here's a look at Anthropic's valuation history since it was founded in 2021: