Anthropic Hits $5B Run-Rate, Names Chris Ciauri Managing Director of International

Anthropic expands global leadership in enterprise AI, naming Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International

Anthropic is scaling its global footprint with new executive appointments, fast-growing enterprise adoption, and offices across Europe and Asia. The company has appointed Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International to accelerate expansion and deepen enterprise partnerships worldwide.

Anthropic holds the top market share in enterprise AI* and has scaled run-rate revenue from $87 million at the start of 2024 to over $5 billion by August 2025. This growth was reinforced by a $13 billion Series F at a $183 billion post-money valuation. Consumer usage data shows that ~80% of Claude usage comes from outside the United States, with South Korea, Australia, and Singapore leading on a per-capita basis.

Why this matters to executives

• Enterprise-grade trust: Demand is moving to models that combine frontier performance with safety, reliability, and governance.
• Global deployments are the norm: Teams need multilingual support, regional compliance, and agentic workflows that scale.
• Time-to-value shrinks: The best programs deliver measurable impact within weeks, not quarters.

Growth by the numbers

• Market position: Top enterprise AI share*.
• Revenue: $87M (start of 2024) to $5B+ run-rate (Aug 2025).
• Funding: $13B Series F at $183B post-money.
• Usage: ~80% of consumer Claude usage outside the U.S.
• Customers: From < 1,000 business customers two years ago to 300,000+ today (300x growth).

*Source: Menlo Ventures, 2025 Mid-Year LLM Market Update.

Leadership built for scale

Following Paul Smith's appointment as Chief Commercial Officer, Chris Ciauri joins as Managing Director of International. He brings over 25 years of experience scaling global enterprise tech, including CEO of Unily, President of EMEA at Google Cloud, and EVP/GM of EMEA at Salesforce-where he helped grow the region from under $200M to over $3B in revenue.

Ciauri joins Paul Smith's leadership group alongside Guillaume Princen (Head of EMEA), Hidetoshi Tojo (Head of Japan), and Kate Jensen (Head of Americas). This team is focused on global go-to-market and enterprise sales across priority markets.

"Business leaders understand that AI will be essential to winning moving forward. Some of the most important organizations around the world are partnering with Anthropic because they know we understand enterprise and what it takes for AI to work at scale across critical operations," said Paul Smith, Chief Commercial Officer. "Safety and trust are fundamental to everything we build-the foundation enterprises need when AI powers their business. These organizations know that Anthropic is the AI partner that's as committed to their success as they are."

"The global demand for Claude is extraordinary-from financial services in London to manufacturing in Tokyo, enterprises are trusting Claude to power their mission-critical operations," said Chris Ciauri. "This is a key moment for Anthropic to expand the infrastructure and partnerships needed to serve this growing international customer base."

Global expansion: EMEA and APAC

• EMEA: 100+ new roles across Dublin and London, plus a research-focused Zurich office. Additional European locations to be announced.
• Japan: First Asia office now open in Tokyo with continued investment and local expansion through the year.

Enterprise outcomes across industries

• NBIM (sovereign wealth fund): ~20% productivity gains-equivalent to 213,000 hours-and enhanced analysis across 9,000+ companies.
• European Parliament: Made 2.1 million historical documents accessible in multiple languages.
• Novo Nordisk: Reduced clinical documentation time by 99.9% (10+ weeks to 10 minutes); 50% fewer review cycles.
• SK Telecom (South Korea): Improved customer service quality by 34% for millions of users.
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Cut customer scam losses by 50%.
• Rakuten (Japan): Reduced feature development time by 79% using Claude Code.
• United Airlines: Faster, more personalized customer messaging and response.
• TELUS: 57,000 employees using Claude; 13,000+ custom AI solutions; engineering ships code 30% faster; 500,000+ hours saved.

What to do next: a practical playbook for execs

• Run a portfolio audit: Map high-volume workflows to agentic patterns (document heavy ops, customer support, code acceleration).
• Start with trust and controls: Require interpretability, policy guardrails, data handling standards, and route-to-human designs.
• Stand up 90-day pilots: Pick 2-3 use cases with measurable KPIs (hours saved, cycle-time reduced, quality lift).
• Invest in enablement: Upskill leaders and builders to ship safely and at pace. For structured paths, see the AI Certification for Claude and role-based options at Courses by Job.
• Localize deployments: Plan for multilingual operations and regional compliance from day one.
• Build governance early: Define ownership, model risk policies, feedback loops, and incident response.

The bottom line

Anthropic's expansion-leadership, global offices, and enterprise traction-signals where enterprise AI is heading: verifiable results, safety-first systems, and international scale. For executive teams, the opportunity is straightforward-deploy AI where it compounds productivity and control the risk with strong governance.

Anthropic remains focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems for mission-critical operations. More updates will follow as international growth and enterprise momentum continue.