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Anthropic IPO: Why Nasdaq Was the Perfect Choice

Anthropic Picks Nasdaq for Its IPO: Why This Could Become a Defining AI Listing

Anthropic choosing Nasdaq for its IPO is far more than an exchange decision. In my view, it is a powerful statement about what Anthropic has become and where it believes the future of technology is heading. Reports on September 13, 2026 confirmed that Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq as its intended listing venue, while the company had already filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on June

1. The prospectus is expected to become public after Labor Day, with a possible listing window in late September or October. The final IPO date, ticker, share count and price are not confirmed yet, but the direction is increasingly clear.

I believe Nasdaq is an excellent choice for Anthropic. Nasdaq has built one of the world's strongest identities around technology, innovation and high-growth companies. Anthropic is not a traditional business seeking an ordinary listing. It is building at the frontier of artificial intelligence, enterprise software, automation and advanced computing. Nasdaq gives Anthropic direct access to a technology-focused investor base that already understands the economics and long-term potential of transformative technology companies.
The listing also gives Anthropic something extremely valuable: public-market visibility and liquidity. A Nasdaq listing can provide a transparent valuation, a liquid currency for acquisitions, an important tool for employee compensation and access to institutional investors. Most importantly, it can transform Anthropic from one of the world's most valuable private AI companies into a publicly traded technology leader.

The valuation journey is extraordinary. Anthropic's Series A in 2021 valued the company at roughly $623 million.

Series E reached $61.5 billion in March 2025, Series F reached $183 billion in September 2025, Series G reached $380 billion in February 2026 and Series H reportedly reached $965 billion on May 28, 2026 after a $65 billion funding round. Cumulative capital raised has reportedly exceeded $129 billion. A potential $2 trillion IPO would therefore represent roughly a 107% increase from the latest $965 billion private valuation.
Why can the market even discuss such a number? Because Anthropic's growth has been extraordinary.

Its annualised revenue reportedly increased from around $87 million in January 2024 to $1 billion by December 2024, approximately $9 billion exiting 2025, $14 billion in February 2026, $19 billion in March, $30 billion in April, $44 billion in early May, $47 billion by mid-May and roughly $65 billion by the end of July. Investors are now discussing a possible $100–120 billion annualised run rate by year-end, while longer-term projections have pointed toward approximately $190–200 billion of revenue in 2028.

That growth is the core Anthropic thesis. Investors are not simply buying today's revenue. They are trying to own a company that could become a major infrastructure layer of the global AI economy.

Claude has already moved far beyond the traditional chatbot model.

Anthropic has expanded into enterprise APIs, coding agents, research, healthcare, financial workflows and large-scale automation. Claude Code reportedly reached a $1 billion annualised run rate within six months and later surpassed $2.5 billion. More than 500 customers reportedly spend over $1 million annually, while eight of the Fortune 10 are customers.
This enterprise adoption is extremely important. Consumer AI can change quickly, but businesses that integrate AI into coding, research, finance and mission-critical workflows can create recurring demand and deeper relationships.

The competitive picture is also becoming increasingly interesting. Anthropic reportedly reached approximately 32% of enterprise API share in Q2 2026 versus around 25% for OpenAI. If that trend continues, the IPO will give public investors a new way to evaluate the competition between the world's leading AI platforms.

And this is where my opinion becomes strongly positive.
Anthropic deserves significant credit for how it has built its position. It has combined rapid technological progress with a serious focus on safety, interpretability, responsible scaling and enterprise reliability. Its public-benefit structure and long-term approach make it different from companies that appear focused only on short-term growth.

What impresses me most is discipline.
The AI industry is full of aggressive announcements, huge promises and constant pressure to move faster. Anthropic has often taken a more measured approach, focusing on model quality, system documentation, safety research and real enterprise utility. Claude is increasingly trusted for serious professional workloads, and that trust could become one of Anthropic's strongest competitive advantages.

AI is ultimately a race for talent, compute, capital, distribution and customer trust. Anthropic has demonstrated strength across all five.

However, a great company can still become an expensive stock. That is the biggest risk surrounding this IPO.
At the $965 billion Series H valuation, Anthropic was valued at roughly 15 times its reported $65 billion annualised run rate. At $2 trillion, the valuation becomes much more demanding. At $2.5–3 trillion, investors would already be paying for years of exceptional execution.

Profitability therefore matters. Q2 2026 revenue was reportedly around $10.9–11.5 billion, with the company recording its first positive operating result at approximately $559 million adjusted and EBITDA near $599 million. Gross margin is reportedly around 40%, with a longer-term target near 77% by 2028. But estimated 2026 compute spending of around $19 billion shows the other side of the story: AI growth requires enormous infrastructure investment.

My base-case valuation is approximately $1.8–2.2 trillion if the S-1 confirms strong revenue quality, continued enterprise growth and improving margins. My bullish scenario is $2.5–3 trillion if annualised revenue approaches or exceeds $100 billion and profitability expands faster than expected. My bearish scenario is roughly $1.0–1.2 trillion if the prospectus reveals aggressive revenue recognition, heavy compute obligations, weak cash conversion or a major deterioration in AI sentiment.

That huge range is the real risk.

My strategy would therefore be simple: do not chase the opening price. Watch the S-1, final pricing range, IPO valuation, free float, lockup schedule and first two earnings reports. A newly listed mega-cap AI company can easily experience a 20–30% correction without the underlying business changing. Position sizing matters more than predicting the first-day candle.

The Nasdaq choice makes the story even more interesting. If Anthropic performs strongly after listing, it could quickly become one of the most important technology names on the exchange. A successful debut could reinforce valuations across AI semiconductors, cloud computing, data centres, networking, energy and enterprise software. A weak debut could send the opposite signal and force the market to reconsider how much it is willing to pay for future AI growth.

Crypto will also feel the impact.

The AI-token category remains tiny compared with a potential $2 trillion Anthropic valuation. Estimates place AI-related crypto market capitalisation around $17.4 billion, with daily volume around $1.26 billion, while other datasets have shown category volume above $2 billion.

A $2 trillion Anthropic would therefore be more than seventy times the entire AI-token sector.

In the short term, the IPO could pull risk capital toward equities. In the longer term, however, a successful Anthropic listing could strengthen the broader AI narrative. It would provide public-market evidence that AI businesses can generate extraordinary revenue at scale. At the same time, it could force AI-related crypto projects to prove their utility, adoption and economics instead of relying only on the AI narrative.

That is healthy for the sector.

There is also a growing connection between traditional finance and crypto through tokenised equities and private-market access. But one warning is essential: Anthropic has not announced an official token or airdrop. Any asset claiming to be an official Anthropic token or promising guaranteed IPO allocation in exchange for deposits should be treated as unaffiliated.

Amazon and Google will also deserve attention because of their strategic exposure to Anthropic. Once Anthropic becomes publicly traded, investors will have a transparent market price for that exposure, making Anthropic's valuation increasingly relevant across the technology sector.
Ultimately, the biggest benefit of the IPO will be transparency.

The public S-1 should give investors a much clearer view of revenue recognition, customer concentration, cloud economics, gross margins, stock-based compensation, compute commitments and cash requirements. Those numbers will matter far more than social-media speculation.

My verdict is clear: Anthropic made an outstanding exchange choice.

Nasdaq is a natural home for a company trying to define the next era of technology. It offers a technology-focused investor base, institutional visibility, liquidity and an ecosystem capable of supporting a company of potentially historic scale. More importantly, the choice reflects what Anthropic has become: not merely an AI model developer, but a serious enterprise technology company competing for a central position in the future AI economy.

I am bullish on Anthropic as a business, but disciplined on valuation. The technology thesis is powerful, the enterprise growth is impressive and the Nasdaq listing is strategically excellent. The real question is not whether Anthropic can become one of the world's most valuable AI companies. It is whether the IPO price leaves enough upside after so much future growth has already been priced in.

I would rather own a great company patiently than chase a great story emotionally. If Anthropic executes, this Nasdaq listing could become one of the defining public-market moments of the AI era.#ShareWeekly #weeklyshare