{"id":107335,"date":"2026-07-15T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/107335\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:54:11","slug":"anthropic-to-begin-investor-meetings-for-potential-october-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/107335\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic to Begin Investor Meetings for Potential October IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic<\/a> wants to meet with prospective investors ahead of a potential initial public offering that could take place as soon as October, Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-15\/anthropic-is-said-to-plan-ipo-investor-meetings-as-listing-nears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Wednesday (July 15).<\/p>\n<p>Banks leading the offering are scheduling investor meetings in the coming weeks, according to the report, which cited unnamed sources. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/investment-tracker\/ipo\/2026\/anthropic-sets-stage-for-trillion-dollar-stock-market-listing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic<\/a> and rival <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> have confidentially filed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/openai-confidential-ipo-filing-joins-race-for-largest-public-listing-ever\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPOs<\/a>, but Anthropic is expected to list first after OpenAI pushed its target <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/investment-tracker\/ipo\/2026\/openai-weighs-delay-of-ipo-as-tech-stock-volatility-rattles-advisers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debut<\/a> to 2027.<\/p>\n<p>If completed this fall, the listing would also precede a planned IPO by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepseek.com\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeepSeek<\/a>, a Chinese AI startup, highlighting how AI companies are increasingly turning to public markets to finance the enormous computing costs required to train and deploy frontier models. DeepSeek is preparing for its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/deepseek-revenue-nears-500-million-as-chinese-ai-startup-eyes-ipo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPO<\/a> after growing annualized revenue to between $400 million and $500 million.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic enters the public markets from a position of strength. The company was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/anthropic-becomes-worlds-most-valuable-ai-startup-at-965-billion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">valued<\/a> at $965 billion following a May funding round, making it one of the world\u2019s most valuable private companies and, for the first time, surpassing OpenAI\u2019s reported valuation, the Bloomberg report said. The company has benefited from growing enterprise demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/claude.ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claude<\/a>, particularly coding-focused AI tools that have become popular with software developers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morganstanley.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Stanley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmansachs.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goldman Sachs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpmorganchase.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JPMorganChase<\/a> are leading the planned offering, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The listing would arrive as AI companies fuel a broader revival in equity capital markets. Companies have raised $227.5 billion through IPOs globally this year, excluding special-purpose acquisition companies and other financial vehicles, already making 2026 the strongest year for listings since 2021, the report said. AI companies have been a major driver of that rebound, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skhynix.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SK Hynix<\/a> both citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/investment-tracker\/ipo\/2026\/spacex-ipo-filing-reveals-ai-next-frontier-is-out-this-world\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI opportunities<\/a> as part of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/investment-tracker\/ipo\/2026\/sk-hynix-courts-us-ai-investors-with-29-billion-ipo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">public offerings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic\u2019s IPO preparations also highlight the divergent strategies among leading AI companies. OpenAI is considering delaying its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/investment-tracker\/ipo\/2026\/openai-weighs-delay-of-ipo-as-tech-stock-volatility-rattles-advisers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPO<\/a> until 2027 because advisers fear volatility in technology stocks could weaken investor demand for new listings.<\/p>\n<p>For all PYMNTS AI coverage, subscribe to the daily <a href=\"https:\/\/pymnts.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI Newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic wants to meet with prospective investors ahead of a potential initial public offering that could take place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,25,3831,66,310,1162,311],"class_list":["post-107335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ipos","tag-news","tag-pymnts-news","tag-startups","tag-whats-hot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}