# Anthropic is in talks to invest roughly $200m in a new private-equity-backed joint venture designed to accelerate enterprise adoption of its Claude models.

*genai · news · 2026-04-07 · TNW*

## Key points

- Anthropic is negotiating a joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Permira to embed Claude in PE portfolio companies.
- Anthropic plans to invest $200m in the venture, which could raise up to $1bn from buyout firms.
- The venture will use Palantir’s model of embedding engineers in client organizations for workflow transformation.
- Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic is offering ordinary equity with no guaranteed minimum return to PE partners.
- Enterprise customers now account for 80% of Anthropic’s revenue, up from 500 to 1,000 $1m+ clients in two months.

**Companies:** Blackstone, Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Hellman & Friedman, Permira, Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, Infosys, Xero
**Countries:** United States

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