Anthropic, the developer of the AI model Claude, is preparing for a U.S. IPO, expected as early as October this year. After filing a confidential submission in June, the company is projected to reach a valuation of $2 trillion and make new history in the AI industry.
Currently, Anthropic's valuation has surged to $965 billion following a $65 billion Series H funding round completed in May.
Recent reports indicate that Anthropic’s revenue in Q2 2026 reached $11.5 billion, a significant increase from $787 million in the same period last year and up from $4.73 billion in Q1 2026.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 as an AI research and development company prioritizing AI safety. It is best known for developing Claude, a family of large language models.
The founding was led by CEO Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela Amodei, who serves as company president, along with several former OpenAI researchers. As a private company, Anthropic does not publicly disclose its full shareholder list like publicly traded firms.
Its shareholder structure is diversified across founders, employees with shares or stock options, venture capital firms, institutional investors, and major technology companies investing strategically. Importantly, no single shareholder holds a majority stake.
Anthropic has raised over $100 billion across multiple funding rounds in recent years. Major investors include:
Additionally, Anthropic's ownership includes employees and all the company’s co-founders. According to Forbes, each of the seven founders holds at least 1.6% equity. As a startup backed by venture capital, Anthropic offers employees shares through stock options or Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), granting early employees a stake in the company.
However, Reuters recently reported that Anthropic plans to issue special shares to Dario Amodei, who currently holds about 2%. These special shares will carry enhanced voting rights to protect the founders from excessive pressure by external shareholders.
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When Anthropic raised massive funds from outside investors, the founders’ ownership stakes naturally diluted. However, Anthropic differs because company control is not solely based on share quantity.
As a Public Benefit Corporation with a Long-Term Benefit Trust structure, the founders and governance mechanisms hold power to protect Anthropic’s mission beyond just shareholder percentages.
Anthropic’s board includes representatives from major investors but is structured to limit investor influence over research decisions. The core mechanism is the Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT).
This trust acts as an independent watchdog, able to intervene if executives or investors try to divert the company from its original AI safety mission. Although Amazon and Google are Anthropic’s largest investors, they do not have board seats that control strategic direction.
These conditions are part of investment agreements and highlight the difference between Amazon’s relationship with Anthropic and Microsoft’s more strategically intertwined relationship with OpenAI.
Thus, Anthropic’s Public Benefit Corporation status and the Long-Term Benefit Trust are designed to prevent large investors from controlling the company’s direction and to avoid pressure to prioritize profit over AI safety.
Sources:Revenue Memo,AI Funding Tracker,Reuters
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