Anthropic is ready for Wall Street. The company behind Claude filed its public S-1 paperwork on Monday, revealing its plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ANT and setting the stage for an enormous IPO. Anthropic’s filing pulls back the curtain on the financials that have made it one of the fastest-growing
Getting initial customers as a startup can be one of the most grueling challenges in business. Even when companies manage to snag some early interest, there’s no guarantee those customers will stick around. At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Elia Wallen, founder and CEO of travel startup Engine, Gamma founder and CEO Grant Lee, and Crystal
Building a startup means making decisions before you have all the answers. When should you scale? How do you know you really have product-market fit? What does it take to land enterprise customers? How do you build the right team? And when you finally get in front of an investor, how do you make sure
Former OpenAI science lead Kevin Weil has launched Warp Sciences, a new AI startup focused on automating lab work for drug discovery. The company, which trains robots to make and test promising compounds identified by researchers, has raised $215 million at an $865 million valuation, according to Weil, who announced the startup and funding on
Mave, a cybersecurity startup that uses agents to counter the rise in AI-powered cyberattacks, has raised $34 million in funding. The Israel-based startup says its AI agents pull together information from a company’s existing security systems, investigate alerts, filter out false alarms, and take actions approved by human teams. “Security operations is the last gate
Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger. The former Google CEO is reported to own about 1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions of dollars in the leading AI lab’s Series A round in 2021, according to Bloomberg. The startup was valued at $461 million at the time, according to PitchBook data.
