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What some of Anthropic's backers are worth before its IPO

Image Credits:Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Anthropic’s public listing, which is expected this year at a valuation of as much as $2 trillion, is bound to be a windfall for both early-stage and later-stage investors. But even at the company’s latest private market valuation of $965 billion, the stakes held by many of those VCs and early backers already total billions. Coatue , which first backed Anthropic in 2025 at a $183 billion valuation and co-led the AI lab’s last two funding ro