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IPO Calendar: Upcoming IPOs to Watch This Year

From AI giants like Anthropic and OpenAI to fintech's Stripe, here's what's expected to go public this year — and when.

Marking 2026 as one of the strongest years for IPOs since the dot-com boom, several of the world’s biggest private companies are lining up to go public. Below you’ll find the available details for some of the year’s expected initial public offerings. If no date has been set, some of these may wait until 2027.

Note that we’re not recommending these IPOs. Use this guide for your own research and due diligence before making any investment decisions.

Most anticipated IPOs for 2026

Below, you’ll find some of the most anticipated initial public offerings for the year ahead. We expect these IPOs to generate a lot of buzz, and several of them have done so already.

Anthropic

Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude chatbot, raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $965 billion.(1) The company confidentially filed for an IPO days later, with reporting pointing to an October 2026 target.(2)

  • Expected to go public: Targeted as soon as October 2026
  • Valuation: $965 billion

OpenAI

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, confidentially filed IPO paperwork with the SEC in June 2026.(3) The company was last valued at $852 billion in its most recent funding round, though some analysts expect an eventual IPO to price higher.(4)

  • Expected to go public: Expected late 2026 or 2027
  • Valuation: $852 billion

Databricks

Data analytics and AI company Databricks was valued at $134 billion in a December 2025 funding round.(5) Chief executive Ali Ghodsi has since said the company won't go public in 2026, calling it a poor year to list given the number of other large offerings underway.(6)

  • Expected to go public: Possibly 2027
  • Valuation: $134 billion

Stripe

Payments giant Stripe was valued at $159 billion in a February 2026 employee tender offer.(7) The company's president has said an IPO isn't currently a near-term priority given Stripe's profitability.

  • Expected to go public: No confirmed date
  • Valuation: $159 billion

Canva

Design platform Canva was valued at $42 billion in an August 2025 employee share sale.(8) The company has hired a CFO with IPO experience as it pushes further into AI tools and the enterprise market.

  • Expected to go public: Sometime in 2026
  • Valuation: $42 billion

IPO calendar

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Every initial public offering scheduled on US exchanges through the end of the month, plus recent listings.

IPO dates and prices change often. Offerings can be delayed, repriced or withdrawn, so treat any upcoming date as provisional until shares begin trading.

What’s an IPO?

Companies stage an initial public offering (IPO) to raise capital and to reward early investors, officers and workers who’ve been given ownership shares. In a public offering, shares are sold via an underwriter, with most going to large institutional investors and select high-net worth investors.

In rare cases, the average retail investor may be invited to participate, but most will have to wait until shares are trading on an exchange.

On this page you’ll see two other kinds of initial offerings:

  • Direct listings: In a direct listing, a private company sells existing shares held by employees or private shareholders on an exchange with no intermediary. The price per share depends upon how willing existing shareholders are to part with their shares.
  • SPACs: In a SPAC merger, a company seeking to go public merges with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), a blank check company with no operations other than to bring a private company public. This saves the private company time and effort, and it may increase its eventual share price. Public investors can buy into SPACs before the merger, but they rarely know what company a SPAC will take public.

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Pros and cons of buying IPOs

  • Early upside potential if the stock pops after listing, though most retail investors buy at the market open price, not the IPO offering price.
  • Access to fast-growing companies before they’re covered by mainstream analysts.
  • Diversification into new industries or business models not yet available on public markets.
  • Lock-up expirations, typically 90 to 180 days after the IPO, can flood the market with new shares and pressure the stock price.
  • Newly public companies often have limited profitability history, making them harder to value than established stocks.
  • Share prices can be highly volatile in the first weeks and months of trading, both up and down.

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