Anthropic targets November for IPO, pushing back from October

Anthropic is nudging its IPO timeline by about a month. The company, best known for its Claude family of AI models, has moved its target listing window from October to November 2026, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on September 18, 2026. The odds of Anthropic going public before the end of October have now fallen to roughly 6 percent. Why the delay, and why it matters The logic behind the pushback is fairly straightforward: Anthropic wants to hand prospective investors a full set of third-quarter financial results before the roadshow begins. The marketing campaign for the offering is expected to kick off around mid-October, which would put the actual listing somewhere in the weeks before the U.S. midterm elections in November, consistent with earlier Reuters reporting on the timeline. The numbers Anthropic will be bringing to that roadshow are, to put it mildly, attention-grabbing. The company’s annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion as of July 2026, with internal projections pointing to somewhere between $100 billion and $110 billion by year-end. The IPO itself is shaping up to be one of the largest in history. Discussions arou...