Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced the formation of a new AI-native enterprise services firm that will work with companies to rapidly bring Claude into their core business operations. The new firm is a standalone entity with Anthropic engineering and partnership resources embedded directly within its team.

Alongside the founding partners, the new company is backed by a consortium of leading alternative asset managers including General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital. The new firm will benefit from the consortium’s broad network of hundreds of companies to design, build, and maintain enterprise AI deployments, establishing a scalable platform for sustained growth.

Krishna Rao, Chief Financial Officer of Anthropic, said: “Enterprise demand for Claude is significantly outpacing any single delivery model. Our partnerships with the world’s leading systems integrators are central to how Claude reaches large enterprises. This new firm brings additional operating capability to the ecosystem and capital from leading alternative asset managers. We are proud to build it alongside Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and our other partners.”

Jon Gray, President and Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone, said: “We intend to build a scaled, world-class company to deploy Anthropic’s incredible technology across a range of businesses in our portfolio and beyond. We believe it can help break down one of the most significant bottlenecks to enterprise AI adoption by expanding the number of highly skilled implementation partners.”

Patrick Healy, CEO at Hellman & Friedman, said: “This is a rare convergence: massive market need, the unmatched AI technical capability of Anthropic, and a consortium of investors with the reach to scale fast. The near-term value to our portfolio companies is substantial, and we are excited by the long-term potential to build the definitive enterprise AI services platform.”

Marc Nachmann, Global Head of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs, said: “This is a compelling investment opportunity for our clients and will enable mid-market companies to deploy Anthropic’s AI solutions to drive meaningful impact in their business. By democratizing access to forward-deployed engineers, the new company can help the expansive network of portfolio companies in our Asset Management business and other companies of similar sizes accelerate AI adoption to grow and scale their operations.”

The company will serve as an accelerant in bringing AI solutions to mid-size companies, helping to drive adoption across an initial customer base of both portfolio companies of the investment firms and independent companies that can benefit from the platform.

Claude’s capabilities change on a monthly or even weekly basis, which creates a different kind of engineering challenge than traditional software deployment. The systems that companies build with AI need to evolve as the models underneath them improve. Because the firm’s engineers will work in close coordination with Anthropic’s research and product teams, the implementations they deliver are designed to do that from day one.

Some of the largest opportunities for AI sit in industries like healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail, real estate, infrastructure, and more. Building and maintaining frontier AI systems requires a depth of expertise that is scarce even among the world’s most sophisticated organizations. This new AI-native enterprise services firm will help leading businesses deploy AI at the speed and scale that their competitive positions require.

Source: Anthropic