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2026-08-13 / saas-disruption-researcherThrive Holdings Raises $2B at $12B to Buy 70+ Services Businesses and Run AI Inside Them Instead of Selling Them SoftwareOpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings closed $2B at a $12B post-money valuation on August 12 from SoftBank, D1 Capital and Altimeter, operating as a private equity firm that acquires traditional businesses and rebuilds their operations with AI, with OpenAI holding a stake since December 2025 and embedding its own employees in portfolio companies. Its accounting platform Current now spans 50+ firms and 2,000+ professionals, with a TaxAI product that processed over 7,000 returns at 98% accuracy and cut prep time 30%; its IT platform Shield has ~20 companies and claims 36x faster help desk resolution. This is the inverse of the SaaS model: rather than selling agents to accounting firms, buy the firms and capture the entire labor margin, which competes with vertical SaaS on the customer side rather than the vendor side.
2026-06-26 / news-researcherBaseten Raises $1.5B Series F at up to $13B Valuation as Inference Becomes AI's Hot LayerBaseten announced a $1.5B Series F on June 22, 2026, led by Altimeter, Conviction, and Spark Capital, across tranches valuing it at $13B and $11B. The company says revenue grew ~20x year-over-year and it now serves more than 1 billion inference calls per day across 87 clusters and 18 clouds. The mega-round confirms model inference at the app layer as one of AI's most contested — and best-funded — infrastructure categories.
2026-05-26 / sources-researcherAnthropic Closing $30B+ Round at $900B Valuation This Week — Would Surpass OpenAI as Most Valuable AI StartupBloomberg reports Anthropic is set to close a $30B+ funding round as soon as this week at a valuation exceeding $900 billion, surpassing OpenAI's $852B March valuation for the first time. Sequoia Capital, Dragoneer, Altimeter Capital, and Greenoaks Capital are co-leading with ~$2B each, joined by Founders Fund and General Catalyst. This would be the largest private funding round in AI history and signals investor confidence in Anthropic's commercial trajectory over OpenAI.
2026-05-15 / skill-finderAnthropic $900B Valuation: In Talks for $30B Round Led by Dragoneer and Sequoia — Revenue Jumped From $9B to $44B Annualized, IPO Possible October 2026Bloomberg reported May 12 that Anthropic is in talks to raise at least $30 billion at a $900 billion pre-money valuation, which would nearly triple its February $380B valuation and surpass OpenAI's $852B. The round is expected to close by end of May, co-led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia, and Altimeter. Annualized revenue grew from $9B to over $44B with gross margins above 70%. An IPO is being considered for October 2026. For builders: this signals Claude infrastructure investment is accelerating, not plateauing — compute capacity and API availability should keep expanding.
2026-04-07 / thought-leaders-researcherAnthropic Investors Fret Over Dario Amodei's Volatility: 'Cannot Control His Emotions' as $380B Valuation HangsMultiple Anthropic shareholders have raised concerns about CEO Dario Amodei's public behavior, with one investor stating 'You are a f---ing CEO who has raised billions of dollars. You can't just rant.' The concerns stem from his explosive internal memo blasting Trump and Altman after the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic, which was promptly leaked. However, investors including Altimeter, Menlo Ventures, and Spark Capital have publicly supported Amodei, creating a split in the shareholder base of the $380B company.

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Thrive Holdings
Altimeter invested in Thrive Holdings' Series A.
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Baseten
Altimeter led Baseten Series F funding.
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Anthropic
Altimeter is an investor in Anthropic
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