Venture investors including Menlo Ventures, Sequoia, Sound Ventures and Spark Capital are expected to earn billions from Anthropic's IPO, but according to its S-1 none of them owns 5%, the threshold for the principal stockholders table, which is unusual for a tech IPO. At the company's $965 billion private valuation, Menlo's roughly $14 billion stake is only about 1.5%. The article says Amazon is likely the largest financial beneficiary: it first backed Anthropic in 2023 with up to $4 billion, mostly through convertible notes, which carried $6.2 billion in principal as of June 30 and were valued at $97.9 billion in Amazon's filings. Anthropic recorded a non-cash $72.4 billion charge in the first half of 2026 for the change in fair value of these liabilities, and a 12% cap limits Amazon's conversion, though Amazon can waive it. Amazon also invested $10 billion in nonvoting preferred stock in the second quarter, bringing its total investment to about $18 billion.
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