Anthropic Finalizes $1.5 Billion Joint Venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs for Enterprise AI

May 4, 2026

Anthropic announced a $1.5 billion enterprise AI joint venture on May 6, 2026, with founding partners Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman each committing $300 million alongside Anthropic's $300 million. The venture grants investors preferred sales access to their portfolio companies. OpenAI is pursuing a parallel strategy, raising $4 billion for The Development Company venture at a $10 billion valuation from 19 investors including TPG and Brookfield.

Anthropic joint venture announcement

▪Anthropic's new enterprise AI venture is backed by Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Leonard Green, and Sequoia Capital.
▪Anthropic's new enterprise AI venture was valued at $1.5 billion.
▪Hellman & Friedman committed $300 million to Anthropic's new enterprise AI venture.
▪Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs are founding partners in Anthropic's new enterprise AI venture.
▪Anthropic committed $300 million to the new enterprise AI venture.
▪Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services on May 6, 2026.

OpenAI competing venture

▪TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent and Bain Capital are investors in OpenAI's The Development Company venture.
▪OpenAI is raising funds for a new venture called The Development Company.
▪OpenAI's The Development Company venture has a valuation of $10 billion.
▪OpenAI's The Development Company venture is raising $4 billion from 19 investors.

Enterprise AI deployment model

▪Anthropic's enterprise AI venture engagements will run across mid-sized companies across industries.
▪Anthropic's enterprise AI venture investors will capture more value from resulting contracts with their portfolio companies.
▪Anthropic's enterprise AI venture will devote more engineering resources to each individual client using the forward-deployed engineer model popularized by Palantir.
▪Anthropic's enterprise AI venture will get preferred sales access to its investors' portfolio companies.

Ongoing fundraising rounds

▪Anthropic is in the final stages of a funding round seeking $50 billion of new funding.
▪OpenAI's March 2026 funding round valued OpenAI at $852 billion.
▪Anthropic's ongoing funding round values Anthropic at $900 billion.
▪OpenAI announced $122 billion in new funding at the end of March 2026.