Anthropic moves closer to IPO as bankers line up investor meetings
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, during the company’s Builder Summit on February 16, 2026 in Bengaluru, India.
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Anthropic is setting up meetings with investors ahead of a possible IPO later this year, a person with knowledge of the plans told CNBC.
Bankers leading the IPO are scheduling meetings between potential investors and executives from the artificial intelligence firm behind the popular Claude models, said a person who spoke on condition of anonymity speaking about the process.
The meetings show that Anthropic’s IPO preparations are progressing; bankers begin researching investor demands ahead of a formal roadshow and eventual share sale. Anthropic secretly applied The IPO prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission last month, but it did not say when it plans to hit the market.
The giant artificial intelligence startup could hit public markets in October, although the timing may vary. BloombergThe first company to report on investor meetings. An Anthropic spokesman declined to comment.
An anthropic listing will add momentum to June’s massive rally SpaceX IPOs and further opening of public markets to companies at the center of the AI boom. This follows years in which the industry’s biggest names remained anonymous and raised hundreds of billions of dollars from investors.
Antropik looks ready to publicly defeat rival OpenAI marketsThis could be an advantage for the startup if interest in AI wanes later. OpenAI also filed confidentially for an initial public offering with the SEC in June but did not disclose any additional details.
