IPO WATCHJul 2026
Anthropic float moves closer as bankers line up the book
Reporting points to a confidential S-1 and investor meetings already underway. The valuation numbers circulating put this among the largest AI debuts ever.
Anthropic. OpenAI. Databricks. Stripe. The most valuable private companies on earth are lining up to list, and the window for Australian investors to get positioned is opening now. We track every one of them and tell you the moment things move.
Seven companies. One watchlist. Get the IPO before the crowd does.
The seven AI companies heading to market, what they're worth, and when they're expected to list.
Six private companies plus one already listed. Each entry links to a research note covering the business model, the reported figures and the risks we think matter most.
Anthropic builds Claude and sells it almost entirely to enterprise. Reporting suggests an S-1 is already with the SEC, which puts a 2026 float firmly on the table for local investors watching from Sydney and Melbourne.
ChatGPT turned OpenAI into a household name well beyond tech. Any move to public markets would be scrutinised harder than almost any listing of the decade.
Databricks merged the data lake and the warehouse into one platform. Boring on the surface, and precisely why so many large organisations run their AI workloads on it.
Stripe has stayed private far longer than most expected. When that changes, it would rank among the largest fintech listings on record.
Ripple runs the XRP Ledger and a stablecoin aimed squarely at institutions moving money between countries — a problem Australian businesses know well.
Voice, video and text built around communities rather than followers. Discord's subscription business has turned that habit into recurring revenue.
Palo Alto Networks is the rare name on this list you can already buy through a normal brokerage account. It sells firewalls, cloud security and detection tooling to large organisations.
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A deliberately mixed set of debuts since 1999. Some compounded for years, one is still under its listing price. Historical outcomes say nothing about the next float — they exist here to show the spread.
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Reporting points to a confidential S-1 and investor meetings already underway. The valuation numbers circulating put this among the largest AI debuts ever.
Data centre spending remains the clearest read on how much capital is actually flowing into AI. It is also the number local investors should watch before any IPO headline.
The payments company has out-waited several IPO cycles. Its eventual debut would reset how the market prices private fintech.
Cold approaches about overseas pre-IPO shares are a recurring complaint category. Verify licensing on ASIC's registers before sending money anywhere.
First the ordinary work — filings, revenue quality, customer concentration. Then a wider scan across coverage and disclosures to see whether the story holds together. Here is what that looks like on a company you can already buy.
A simple status view of the names on our list — listed or private, and how actively we're following each. It is a reading list, not a portfolio, and it holds no money.
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The AI listing cycle will produce a handful of durable businesses and a long tail of expensive lessons. Reading the filings is still the cheapest edge available to an ordinary investor.