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Anthropic: valuation, revenue and the road to an IPO

By Unicorn Private Research. Published 26 September 2026, last updated 28 October 2026.

Key takeaways

Anthropic's Series H, announced on 28 May 2026, valued it at 965 billion dollars post-money. That is above OpenAI's last round at 852 billion dollars. Anthropic is also further down the road to a listing: on 1 June 2026 it submitted a confidential S-1 to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Everything published since then about the date and size of the listing is press reporting, and this page keeps the two apart.

The reported valuations, and who reported them

Six numbers get quoted for Anthropic, and they are not the same kind of number. The first three are prices at which shares really changed hands. The last three are press reports about a listing that has not been priced.

FigureWhat it isSource and date
At least 350 billion dollarsPre-money valuation of the employee tender offer run alongside the Series GBloomberg Law, 4 February 2026
380 billion dollarsSeries G post-money valuation. Confirmed.Anthropic, 12 February 2026
965 billion dollarsSeries H post-money valuation. Confirmed.Anthropic, 28 May 2026
1.8 to 2 trillion dollarsFair value reportedly seen by prospective IPO investorsBloomberg, reported by Investing.com, 1 October 2026
2 trillion dollars, up to 100 billion raisedReported IPO targetIFR, 17 to 23 October 2026
About 1.5 trillion dollarsValuation some existing and prospective investors argued for after the third-quarter resultsReuters, 19 October 2026

For anyone buying before the listing, the gap between the confirmed 965 billion dollars and the reported 1.5 to 2 trillion dollars is the whole story. Buy at 965 billion dollars and list at 2 trillion, and you have one outcome. Buy at the same price and list at or below the last round, and you have quite another.

The revenue behind the valuation

The valuation moved because revenue moved. And for a private company, the disclosed figures are unusually precise.

The first two figures come from Anthropic, and the third-quarter number is still press reporting of material shown to investors. Since 26 October 2026 the prospectus on EDGAR gives the audited figures up to 30 June 2026, and they match what Reuters had seen in the draft: 4.6 billion dollars of revenue and a 42 billion net loss in 2025. OpenAI has questioned how Anthropic counts revenue sold through cloud partners; Anthropic says it follows established accounting practice (Reuters, 19 October 2026).

The road to a listing

Since 26 October 2026 the registration statement is public on SEC EDGAR, so the financial detail an outside investor needs to test the valuation is finally on the record: audited accounts for 2023 to 2025 and the first half of 2026, the capital structure and the lock-up terms. The confidential draft that came before it was never visible to anyone outside the SEC.

  1. 1 June 2026: Anthropic submits a confidential draft registration statement on Form S-1 (Yahoo Finance). Confirmed.
  2. 1 October 2026: Bloomberg reports a target of marketing from the week of 9 November and trading before Thanksgiving, 26 November, with year-end as the outer limit (Investing.com). Report.
  3. 14 October 2026: investor day in San Francisco for prospective investors (Reuters).
  4. 26 October 2026: Anthropic files its public Form S-1 and applies to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as ANT (SEC EDGAR). Confirmed. A roadshow from 9 November and pricing the following week remain press reports (IFR).
  5. Pricing produces the only valuation that is not an estimate. Everything before it, the 965 billion dollars included, is either a negotiated private price or a report.

What a buyer is taking on before the listing

On 17 September 2026 Forbes listed the specific risks for anyone coming in at this stage (Forbes). Read them before looking at any offer to buy shares now.

IPO status and how to get exposure before the IPO

Anthropic is not yet publicly traded, but its prospectus is public. On 26 October 2026 it filed its Form S-1 with the SEC and applied to list its Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT. The number of shares and the price range are blank in the filing, and press reports point to a roadshow from 9 November and pricing in mid-November 2026. Until a listing, Anthropic says any transfer of its stock without board approval is void, so outside investors are left mostly with indirect routes.

What is confirmed and what is reported

Routes to exposure before a listing, and their limits

Unicorn Private works in the secondary segment. It buys stakes in established private technology companies already valued well above one billion dollars, and does not fund early-stage companies, where most fail. What remains is the entry price, the lack of a guaranteed exit and the time it takes to get one. A company's size does not make those go away. Nothing on this page is a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

The short answer

Anthropic's last funding round, in May 2026, valued it at 965 billion dollars. On 26 October 2026 it filed its public S-1: Nasdaq, symbol ANT, 16.3 billion dollars of revenue in the first half of 2026 and a net loss of 80.7 billion, most of it an accounting charge on convertible notes (SEC EDGAR). Those figures are documented. The pricing date and the listing valuation, mid-November and 1.5 to 2 trillion dollars, are still press reports about a price that does not exist yet. The prospectus is public, so the financial detail is there to read before any decision.

Frequently asked questions

Is Anthropic publicly traded?

Not yet. As of 28 October 2026 Anthropic is a private company. It filed its public Form S-1 on 26 October 2026 and applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT; shares and price range are not yet set (SEC EDGAR).

When is the Anthropic IPO?

Anthropic has not announced a date. The S-1 filed on 26 October 2026 leaves the price range and the share count blank (SEC EDGAR). A roadshow from 9 November and pricing in mid-November were reported by IFR (17 to 23 October 2026), and a mid-November debut by CNBC (26 October 2026). All of that relies on unnamed sources, and the dates can change.

Can you buy Anthropic stock?

Not on a stock exchange before the listing. Anthropic says transfers not approved by its board are void (Anthropic Help Center, 29 June 2026). Indirect exposure exists through a few funds that report small positions and through listed investors such as Amazon and Alphabet.

What is Anthropic's latest valuation?

965 billion dollars post-money, set by the 65 billion dollar Series H announced on 28 May 2026 (Anthropic). Figures of 1.5 to 2 trillion dollars are reported targets for the IPO, not prices (Reuters, 19 October 2026).

How much revenue does Anthropic make?

Anthropic said its run-rate revenue crossed 47 billion dollars in May 2026 (Anthropic). It told investors that third-quarter revenue was 16.8 billion dollars, up from 11.6 billion in the second quarter, according to one attendee of its 14 October investor day (Reuters, 15 October 2026). The company has not published these quarterly figures.

Who owns Anthropic?

Shareholders include employees and the investors in its funding rounds. The Series H was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital and included 5 billion dollars from Amazon (Anthropic, 28 May 2026); Alphabet's Google is also an investor (Reuters, 15 October 2026). The full ownership table will appear only in a public prospectus.

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About the publisher

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Sources

  1. Anthropic raises $65B Series H at $965B valuation, Anthropic, 28 May 2026
  2. Anthropic raises $30B Series G at $380B post-money valuation, Anthropic, 12 February 2026
  3. Anthropic files confidential S-1, Yahoo Finance, 1 June 2026
  4. Anthropic IPO could hit $2 trillion and put public investors last, Forbes, 17 September 2026
  5. Anthropic tops OpenAI as most valuable AI startup, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  6. Unauthorized Anthropic stock sales and investment scams, Anthropic Help Center, updated 29 June 2026
  7. Anthropic warns unauthorized stock sales are void, Quartz on Yahoo Finance, 15 May 2026
  8. Anthropic plans employee tender offer at $350 billion valuation, Bloomberg Law, 4 February 2026
  9. Anthropic wraps up tender offer as employees resist selling shares ahead of IPO, TipRanks, 9 April 2026
  10. Anthropic targets mid-November for public debut, Bloomberg report via Investing.com on Yahoo Finance, 1 October 2026
  11. Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and other AI stocks sink on OpenAI revenue report, CNBC, 8 October 2026
  12. Anthropic revenue jumps 45% to $16.8bn, Reuters on BusinessDay, 15 October 2026
  13. Anthropic pushes ahead with mid-November IPO, IFR issue 2655, 17 to 23 October 2026
  14. OpenAI seeks to accelerate fundraising ahead of Anthropic IPO, sources say, Reuters, 19 October 2026
  15. Can you invest in Anthropic pre-IPO? The Motley Fool, 8 May 2026
  16. Anthropic, PBC, Form S-1 registration statement, SEC EDGAR, filed 26 October 2026
  17. Anthropic IPO live updates: the AI company files its S-1, CNBC, 26 October 2026
  18. Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs, Reuters on New Straits Times, 29 September 2026

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