Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares
Key takeaways
- The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sydecar and Upmarket as companies that are not authorized to provide access to buy or sell its shares.
- Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, offered by these firms is void and will not be recognized on our books and records, the company s blog post reads.
- Anthropic, rumored to be raising fresh funding at a $900 billion valuation, has especially been in demand, with some secondary market brokers telling TechCrunch last month that it s one of the hardest stocks to source.
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As investors scramble to get their hands on shares of AI companies of all stripes, Anthropic this week updated its website to warn investors that a slew of private and secondary investment platforms that offer access to shares in the AI company are not, in fact, allowed to do so.
The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sydecar and Upmarket as companies that are not authorized to provide access to buy or sell its shares.
Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, offered by these firms is void and will not be recognized on our books and records, the company s blog post reads.