What to Know Ahead of Anthropic’s IPO (NASDAQ: ANT) - NerdWallet
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Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, is the largest pure-play AI lab in the world. Its most recent private fundraising round back in May valued it at $965 billion[1]Anthropic. Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation. Accessed Jul 31, 2026. View all sources , putting it ahead of its rival OpenAI, most recently valued at $852 billion[2]OpenAI. OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI. Accessed Oct 26, 2026. View all sources . And that's Anthropic's valuation before its upcoming blockbuster initial public offering.
In late October, Anthropic published an investment prospectus ahead of an expected November IPO that could value the company at $1.5 trillion or more.
Below, we're breaking down what we know about Anthropic's IPO, the platforms that will allow retail investors to participate, Anthropic's current financial situation, and your options for indirectly investing in Anthropic before the IPO.
On Oct. 26, Anthropic published its investment prospectus, announcing its intention to go public on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol "ANT[3]U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Anthropic, PBC . Accessed Oct 26, 2026. View all sources ."
The prospectus does not give an exact date or valuation for the IPO, but we can make an educated guess about the likely date range.
Companies generally want the window between the publication of their prospectus and their actual IPO to be as short as it feasibly can be, because prospectuses contain a huge amount of sensitive information that competitors can exploit. Case in point, the Anthropic prospectus weighs in at more than 400 pages. It’s…
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