Anthropic’s chief financial officer is meeting with prospective investors ahead of a potential public offering, though the conversations have not touched on specific financials or a target valuation, according to CNBC.
CFO Krishna Rao is running the sessions, which have touched on subjects such as the Claude AI model lineup, the origin story of the Claude Code coding assistant, how Anthropic competes for enterprise customers, and the composition of its leadership, according to CNBC, citing people familiar with the matter
Anthropic confidentially filed its prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June. The company has not disclosed an official timeline for its public offering. Some of the company’s investors expect Anthropic could seek a valuation of $2 trillion or more when it lists.
That figure, however, comes from those investors’ independent calculations rather than from anything Anthropic itself has communicated. The Financial Times first reported that investors were floating the $2 trillion figure. Anthropic’s most recent private valuation stood at $965 billion, set during a funding round that closed in late May.