Shaires Holdings Ltd (AIM: SHR), the publicly quoted London investment company focused on providing investors with exposure to leading private technology and AI businesses, is pleased to announce that, further to its announcement of 13 August 2026, it has completed the acquisition of indirect interests in Anthropic of US$16.2 million and Stripe, US$9.2 million through an investment of US$25.4 million in a special purpose vehicle holding indirect beneficial interests in the 2 companies, following satisfaction of the customary closing conditions referred to in that announcement.
The completion represents an important milestone in the build-out of Shaires’ initial portfolio, providing shareholders with exposure to two of the world’s leading private technology companies at a time of continued rapid development across artificial intelligence and the infrastructure supporting its adoption.
The Anthropic interest was acquired at its US$965 billion Series H valuation and at an equivalent price of approximately US$589.01 per share. The investment represents an indirect interest of approximately 0.001% in the equity of Anthropic.
The Stripe exposure was acquired at its US$159 billion February 2026 tender valuation and at an equivalent price of approximately US$63 per share. The investment represents an indirect interest of approximately 0.006% in the equity of Stripe.
About Anthropic
Anthropic is a leading frontier AI company and the developer of the Claude family of models, focused on enterprise and coding. On a management-reported basis its annualised revenue run-rate was approximately US$65 billion as at July 2026, and its most recent primary financing (Series H) valued the company at approximately US$965 billion. Its investors include Amazon, Google and leading global institutions. Anthropic is private and does not publish audited financial statements; figures are unaudited and management-reported.
About Stripe
Stripe is the leading programmable financial-infrastructure platform, processing approximately US$1.9 trillion of total payment volume in 2025 for millions of businesses, and is profitable and cash-generative. In August 2026 it acquired OpenRouter, a leading AI model gateway and routing platform. Its most recent company tender offer (February 2026) valued the company at approximately US$159 billion. Stripe is private and does not publish audited financial statements; figures are unaudited estimates.
Further information pursuant to Schedule 4 of the AIM Rules for Companies
It is not possible to provide the profit or loss figures for Anthropic or Stripe as they do not publish financial statements and accordingly, no profit or loss figure attributable to these companies is available for disclosure. These companies are privately-held companies and therefore have no legal requirement to issue financial statements.
Investment in Figure AI
The Company’s investment in Figure AI, also announced on 13 August 2026, has not yet been completed and a further announcement will be made in due course.
Director’s comment
Vivek Seth, Chief Executive Officer of Shaires, said: “Anthropic and Stripe represent exactly the calibre of companies we want at the core of Shaires: category-defining businesses with exceptional technology, scale and long-term growth potential.
“Anthropic is operating at the frontier of artificial intelligence, while Stripe is increasingly becoming part of the economic infrastructure through which the AI economy operates. The pace of innovation and execution at both businesses continues to be remarkable.
“Since Shaires announced the proposed investments, both companies have continued to announce significant developments that further highlight their extraordinary momentum.
“These investments demonstrate precisely what we established Shaires to do: give public-market investors access to exceptional private companies that have historically been difficult to own.”
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