Hexaware shares surge 10% on multiyear Anthropic partnership

Hexaware Technologies climbed nearly 10% in early trade on Friday after the IT services firm announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Anthropic. The deal makes Hexaware a Preferred Partner in Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network and centers on embedding Claude into two of the company’s key platforms. At around 10:02 am, the stock traded at Rs 562.55 on the NSE, up Rs 51.15 from the previous close. Under the agreement, Hexaware will integrate Claude into Zerovity, its engineering platform, and AgentVerse, its agent-building and governance system that already houses more than 600 pre-built agents. The company plans to use the technology to deliver outcome-based services in IT operations and software engineering. Hexaware already has over 1,100 professionals certified on Claude. The two firms will work together on joint solutions, customer deployments, and go-to-market efforts, while Hexaware expands training across its delivery teams. The partnership builds on an earlier arrangement that allowed Hexaware to resell Claude through Amazon Bedrock.