The company plans to establish a dedicated office in Bengaluru by early 2026 and hire local teams to support start-ups, engineers, and enterprises building with Claude
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India is fast emerging as one of the most technically engaged markets for Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude, with nearly half of its users in the country employing it for developer-focused tasks such as UI design, code debugging, and software development — compared with about 30 per cent globally, the company said.
“This shows that India is using Claude disproportionately to build, and that for us at Anthropic is a real signal,” Guillaume Princen, Global Head of Startups and Head of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at Anthropic, said at the company’s first developer day in India, hosted by Accel, one of its investors.
Princen said India has become Anthropic’s second-largest market after the US, underscoring the country’s growing influence in global AI development. “India is a key market for us. Around a third, or 33 per cent of the Claude conversations are happening here in India. It shows the scale here,” he said.
“Start-ups account for 33 per cent of Claude Code conversations in India, positioning Anthropic as a preferred partner for India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem,” he added.
Anthropic, backed by investors including Amazon and Google, is looking to strengthen its presence in India by collaborating closely with the local developer community. The company plans to establish a dedicated office in Bengaluru by early 2026 and hire local teams to support start-ups, engineers, and enterprises building with Claude.
“You’ll see us see more of us because we really want to have a local presence, we really want to be closer to you, we’ll have teams across the board to support the founders and any other parts of the community. So that’s really important to us,” Princen concluded.
Published on October 11, 2025