According to individuals familiar with the matter, employees of Anthropic have sold a portion of their equity to investors, concluding a sale of existing shares initiated earlier this year. However, because the number of shares employees were willing to sell was limited, some investors were unable to purchase the amount of stock they had planned. The sources, who requested anonymity, indicated that the pricing for this tender offer was consistent with the company's valuation from its most recent funding round in February. In that round, the company was valued at $350 billion, excluding $30 billion in newly raised capital. Anthropic declined to comment. The total value of the share sale transaction, which was completed last week, is not yet known, but some people familiar with the situation said its scale was lower than the total amount investors had been prepared to subscribe for, which had reached up to $60 billion. Numerous current and former employees plan to continue holding a larger portion of their shares ahead of Anthropic's anticipated initial public offering (IPO), which could launch as early as this year.
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