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title: "PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes (Erin Griffith/New York Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/pitchbook-95-investors-put-money-into-both-anthropic-and-openai-amid-4f9bf548
published: 2026-09-03T14:30:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-03 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/pitchbook-95-investors-put-money-into-both-anthropic-and-openai-amid-4f9bf548

Erin Griffith / New York Times : PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes — As the artificial intelligence companies Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to go public, the question around Silicon Valley is which investors will win big.

In this story: [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/lightspeed-venture-partners), [PitchBook](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/pitchbook), [Iconiq](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/iconiq), [Menlo Ventures](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/menlo-ventures)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260903/p23#a260903p23)

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