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Building a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced the formation of a new AI services company targeting mid-sized enterprises, backed by a consortium of leading alternative asset managers. The company will integrate Claude into core operations and join the Claude Partner Network.

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New company formed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to help mid-sized companies deploy Claude.
Anthropic Applied AI engineers will collaborate with the firm's engineers to build custom solutions.
Backed by additional investors including General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
The firm will join the Claude Partner Network alongside existing partners like Accenture and Deloitte.

Why it matters

This matters because new company formed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to help mid-sized companies deploy Claude.

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Building a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs

May 4, 2026

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced the formation of a new AI services company. The organization will work with mid-sized companies across sectors to bring Claude into their most important operations. Applied AI engineers from Anthropic will work alongside the firm’s engineering team to identify where Claude can have the most impact, build custom solutions, and support customers over the long term.

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.

Why we’re building this

Putting Claude to work in an organization’s core operations takes hands-on engineering and deep familiarity with how each business runs. Systems integrators in the Claude Partner Network lead that work for the world’s largest enterprises today, and we are continuing to invest deeply in those partnerships as Claude reaches more customers. This new firm extends that delivery capacity further. Companies from community banks to mid-sized manufacturers and regional health systems stand to gain from AI, but lack the in-house resources to build and run frontier deployments.

“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,” said Krishna Rao, Chief Financial Officer of Anthropic. “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.”

What the work will look like

A typical engagement starts with a small team working closely with the customer to understand where Claude can have the biggest impact. From there, the company's engineers—alongside Anthropic Applied AI staff—will develop Claude-powered systems tailored to each organization’s operations.

Consider a multi-site healthcare services group, like a network of physician practices. Clinicians spend hours each day on documentation, medical coding, prior authorizations, and compliance reviews. An engagement might begin with the company’s engineering team sitting down with clinicians and IT staff to build tools that fit into the workflows that staff already use. The clinicians know where time disappears in a shift and what good patient care actually requires. The company's engineers build around that knowledge, allowing clinicians to devote more time to patient care.

Engagements like this will run across mid-sized companies across industries, each shaped by the people closest to the work.

Building the Claude Partner Network

This company will also become a member of Anthropic’s growing Claude Partner Network.

Our partnerships with Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, and the other consulting and systems integration firms in the Claude Partner Network are one of the ways Claude benefits the world’s largest enterprises today. These firms lead the complex transformation programs that shape how global enterprises operate, and they bring Claude expertise to their millions of practitioners across every major industry. We have been steadily expanding the Claude Partner Network since its launch, and we are continuing to invest in the programs, funding, and teams that support our partners.