Anthropic Launches $1.5B Enterprise AI JV with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs

The Joint Venture

Anthropic launched a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm in partnership with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs as founding partners, backed additionally by Apollo Global Management, GIC, Leonard Green, General Atlantic, and Sequoia Capital. Each of the three core partners contributed $300 million.

The Forward-Deployed Model

Rather than traditional consulting, the firm embeds Anthropic engineers directly inside client organizations to redesign core workflows and integrate Claude into operations. Initial sector focus: healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail, and real estate. The target market is mid-size companies — particularly within private equity portfolios, given Blackstone's and H&F's extensive portfolio reach.

Taking on Consulting Giants

The structure places Anthropic in direct competition with McKinsey, Deloitte, and Accenture for high-margin AI transformation mandates. Fortune characterized the move as "taking a shot at the consulting industry." By combining model access with implementation services, Anthropic creates a vertically integrated offering difficult for traditional firms to replicate.

Parallel to OpenAI's DeployCo

On the same day, OpenAI announced DeployCo, a $4B enterprise AI deployment firm backed by 19 investors. The simultaneous launches signal the race to capture enterprise AI transformation at scale.

Source: Anthropic Blog