Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this Monday with a view to a future initial public offering of its ordinary shares. The company, known for developing artificial intelligence models such as Claude or Mythos, thus takes another step in its financing and growth strategy.
"Today, Anthropic, PBC confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the SEC for a proposed initial public offering of our ordinary shares," said the startup led by Dario Amodei, confirming the move to the U.S. regulator.
Once the SEC concludes the review process of the documentation, Anthropic will have the possibility to debut on the stock market. However, the company has insisted that the eventual IPO will remain subject to market conditions and other factors that may influence the timing and execution of the transaction.
For now, the firm has not determined how many shares it will offer for sale or the expected price range for the placement. In the same vein of prudence, the company emphasizes that this communication "does not constitute an offer to sell securities, nor a solicitation of an offer to buy them," and therefore does not imply the immediate start of the placement process.
Anthropic's move joins the wave of large tech startups preparing their leap to the stock market. At the end of May, it was reported that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, was advancing its plans to go public in the fall, while SpaceX also registered the prospectus in May to list its shares on the Nasdaq in New York and Texas under the symbol "SPCX," a transaction that could become the largest IPO ever made.
In parallel to these plans, last week Anthropic announced that it had obtained $65 billion (€55.895 billion) in a funding round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, which valued the company at $965 billion (€829.831 billion), above the estimated valuation of OpenAI.
Previously, in February, Anthropic had already closed another round in which it raised 30 billion dollars (25.798 billion euros), an operation that then implied a valuation of 380 billion dollars (326.733 billion euros), consolidating the company as one of the most valuable players in the generative artificial intelligence sector.