Menlo Ventures合伙人、Kleiner Perkins前合伙人Matt Murphy也承认，此次推出Anthology Fund基金的灵感正是来自iFund。
Today, the AI startup company Anthropic joined forces with Menlo Ventures, a venture capital firm, to launch the Anthology Fund, a $0.1 billion fund to support early-stage startups and allow them to use Anthropic's technology. Product structure, 10-30 billion yuan products operating income of 401/1288/60 million yuan respectively.
According to the agreement, Menlo Ventures will invest in the startups while Anthropic will provide a $25,000 credit to the founders of these startups for using its large language models.
Anthropic's collaboration with Menlo Ventures is similar to Apple's and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins' collaboration. In 2008, Apple and Kleiner Perkins launched the iFund, a $0.1 billion fund aimed at supporting developers on the iOS platform. Two years later, the fund doubled in size to $0.2 billion.
Matt Murphy, a partner at Menlo Ventures and former partner at Kleiner Perkins, also admits that the inspiration for launching the Anthology Fund came from the iFund.
Murphy said, "The iFund was very successful. It really got Apple to know a lot of early developers and the issues they needed to focus on. It also allowed developers to directly understand some of the things Apple was considering selling. There are a lot of similarities here."
Murphy also said the biggest difference is that this time, the development of AI is faster than that of iPhones. He said, "The current AI boom is 10 to 100 times faster than the biggest innovation wave we've seen before."
Today, more and more investors are flocking to the hottest AI transactions, and venture capitalists are seeking various ways to increase attractiveness to AI startups. According to Crunchbase data, the financing of AI startups reached $24 billion in the second quarter of this year, more than doubling sequentially.
With the launch of the Anthology Fund, Anthropic will provide mentoring, quarterly meetings, and other resources, including providing a direct hotline service. However, it will not directly invest or obtain shares in startups.
Daniela Amodei, a co-founder of Anthropic, founded Anthropic with her brother Dario after leaving OpenAI. Amodei said she hopes to create a feedback loop: the more Anthropic works with developers, the more it can improve its products.
OpenAI, a direct competitor of Anthropic, also has its own venture fund, the "OpenAI Startup Fund", which invests $0.175 billion to help AI startups have a profound positive impact on the world.
