The reported $7 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart by Anthropic could become significantly more lucrative for its founders and investors when the Claude developer follows through with a blockbuster IPO.<\/p>\n
Anthropic is expected to pay most of the consideration in shares rather than cash, meaning Decart shareholders will remain exposed to the value of Anthropic after the acquisition closes.<\/p>\n
That could prove particularly valuable given how quickly Anthropic’s valuation has risen. The company was valued at $380 billion in February and $965 billion in May, when it raised $65 billion. Its annual revenue run rate reached $65 billion by the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n
Now Anthropic is preparing for a potential public offering that could come as soon as the end of August. Bloomberg reported that the company is considering an IPO that could match or exceed SpaceX’s record $75 billion offering.<\/p>\n
If Anthropic goes public at a valuation above the level implied by the Decart acquisition, the shares received by Decart’s shareholders could appreciate significantly. The opposite is also true: a weaker IPO would reduce their potential payout.<\/p>\n
The structure makes the Decart transaction different from a conventional cash acquisition. Rather than simply locking in a $7 billion exit, its founders and investors are effectively retaining a stake in Anthropic’s next stage of growth.<\/p>\n
The deal would also give Anthropic a major foothold in Israel. Decart has developed technology focused on AI efficiency and real-time applications, while Anthropic would gain both its technology and a team in one of the country’s largest AI talent hubs.<\/p>\n
Founded in 2023, Decart employs approximately 100 people and has raised $450 million to date.<\/p>\n
Decart has hired boutique investment bank Catalyst to advise on the transaction.<\/p>\n
Despite the advanced stage of the negotiations, sources close to the deal stressed that no agreement has yet been signed. The disclosure that Decart was exploring a sale may also have prompted other potential buyers to examine the opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reported $7 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart by Anthropic could become significantly more lucrative for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-593503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}