The company confidentially submitted filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO of common stock, Anthropic said in an online post Monday. The vendor has not yet set a number of shares to offer or price.
Days after Anthropic disclosed a new round of funding that put its valuation above that of artificial intelligence rival OpenAI, the Claude maker has now revealed that it is another step closer to going public as it works to build out its channel partner program.
The San Francisco-based AI startup—founded by former OpenAI employees—confidentially submitted filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of common stock, Anthropic said in an online post Monday. The vendor has not yet set a number of shares to offer or price.
“This gives us the option to go public after the SEC completes its review,” Anthropic said in the post. “The proposed initial public offering will depend on market conditions and other factors.”
Earlier this year, Anthropic revealed a $100 million investment in its Claude Partner Network and new certification program as part of its channel offensive.
“What we want to build here isn’t the same—nothing we do is the same. Everything we are building now is the blueprint for the future. So we need a different set of muscles and a much more multifaceted set of personnel to deliver that,” Steve Corfield, Anthropic’s head of business development and partnerships, told CRN at the time.
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CRN has reached out to Anthropic for comment.
Eduardo Ramos, CEO of Austin, Texas-based Anthropic solution provider Viewnear, told CRN in an interview that Anthropic going public is a signal that enterprise AI is moving from experimentation to core business infrastructure.
Ramos has sought to carve out a niche in the developing Anthropic partner ecosystem through Claude expertise married with expertise in data product vendor Snowflake’s portfolio.
“Organizations are investing in platforms they believe can support long-term, production-scale AI initiatives,” the CEO said. “We’re seeing that demand firsthand across our customers.”
Other Claude partners include CRN Solution Provider 500 members Infosys, Accenture, Cognizant, Slalom and Leidos, as well as “born in the AI” services partner upstarts like Tribe AI and Ciridae.
Anthropic isn’t the only member of the upcoming mega IPOs eyeing the channel for expanding enterprise business.
OpenAI has also been expanding its partner ecosystem and hiring top talent in the IT channel, with Brian Landsman, Salesforce’s AgentExchange CEO and executive vice president of global business development and partnerships, announcing in a LinkedIn post Monday that he is joining the ChatGPT maker as vice president of global partnerships.
He joins former Google Cloud and Snowflake channel executive Colleen Kapase at the upstart to build up a partner ecosystem that includes channel luminaries like Accenture, Capgemini, CGI, Cognizant, Infosys, PwC and Tata Consultancy Services.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.—better known as Elon Musk’s SpaceX—disclosed in its IPO filings in May that it is “expanding through channel partners in select geographies” to help drive increased adoption of its Starlink enterprise connectivity market.
In March, SpaceX hired Jackie Smith as head of strategic partnerships. She previously worked at Cisco and Spunk for about 15 years, leaving as global vice president of Splunk partner sales, according to her LinkedIn account. Cisco bought Splunk in 2024.
The company also rivals OpenAI and Anthropic with its xAI and Grok businesses.
SpaceX is on a road show later this week to lock down liquidity from public markets as three major conglomerates get ready to open “the floodgates for the IPO market, which has been relatively dormant for a few years,” according to a Wedbush report Monday.
An earlier report from the investment firm said it doesn’t “believe the unprecedented IPO tech slate of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI over the coming months will take oxygen and liquidity out of the current AI-driven tech rally over the coming months … contrary to the narrative of some bears trying to poke holes in this market being driven by the 2nd/3rd derivatives of this AI Revolution.”
