TOKYO, Nov 2 (Reuters) – AI lab Anthropic will sell up to 552.9 billion yen ($3.5 billion) worth of shares in Japan as part of its US public listing, a filing showed on Monday.
• The new shares issued to Japanese investors will go to raise working capital and fund operating expenses and capital expenditure, the filing said
• The filing did not state the size or valuation of the IPO. Some investors have discussed a valuation of about $1.5 trillion for the company, Reuters has reported
• At SpaceX’s IPO in June – the world’s largest ever – investors in Japan secured shares worth $2.2 billion of $75 billion raised
($1 = 157.8200 yen)
(Reporting by Anton Bridge)
