{"id":655623,"date":"2026-11-09T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/655623\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:36:19","slug":"sakana-ai-gears-up-for-one-of-japans-biggest-startup-ipos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/655623\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakana AI gears up for one of Japan&#8217;s biggest startup IPOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/ipo\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPO<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Generative AI developer&#8217;s listing could top Mercari&#8217;s valuation<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20261109 sakana ai logo\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Sakana AI is gearing up for an initial public offering as soon as next autumn in what would be the first by a Japanese AI developer. (Photo by Ino Shintaro)<\/p>\n<p>REI NAKAFUJI and AKIRA YAMASHITA<\/p>\n<p>November 9, 2026 17:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO\/LONDON &#8212; Japanese artificial intelligence developer Sakana AI is preparing for an initial public offering either in Japan or in the U.S. as early as autumn 2027, Nikkei has learned, with a market valuation possibly exceeding Mercari&#8217;s 680 billion yen ($4.3 billion) to become one of the largest listings for a Japanese startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IPO Generative AI developer&#8217;s listing could top Mercari&#8217;s valuation Sakana AI is gearing up for an initial public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,6326,60769,40365,16847,111,139,69,5270,94362,1037,145],"class_list":["post-655623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-biggest","tag-gears","tag-ipos","tag-japans","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-sakana","tag-startup","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}