Anthropic launches AI consulting venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman, backed by approximately $1.5 billion in committed capital

Anthropic announced a new standalone enterprise services company as a joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs. The venture also drew backing from General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, and Sequoia Capital.

The firm embeds Anthropic engineers and models directly into mid-size businesses' core operations—a structure that mirrors Palantir's forward-deployment model. It targets the gap where companies spend six dollars on services for every dollar spent on software, positioning AI-delivered outcomes (legal services, financial analysis, insurance processing) billed like consulting.

The venture addresses what Blackstone President and COO Jon Gray called "one of the most significant bottlenecks to enterprise AI adoption": the scarcity of engineers who can implement frontier AI systems at speed. Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao stated that "Enterprise demand for Claude is significantly outpacing any single delivery model."