NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KraneShares today announced that the private investments held by the KraneShares Public-Private AI & Technology ETF (Ticker: AGIX), including Anthropic, have contributed meaningfully to the fund’s performance since launch. AGIX became the first ETF to invest directly in Anthropic in February 2025, at a $61.5 billion valuation.¹
Since AGIX's inception on 7/17/2024 through 10/31/2026, AGIX has returned +70.13% versus the Nasdaq-100 Index's return of +45.64%.2 AGIX's private exposure contributed +11.92 percentage points to its total return.2 Overall, AGIX outperformed a widely recognized technology benchmark by +24.49 percentage points.2
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This update comes as Anthropic, maker of Claude, moves toward the public markets after filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 26 to list on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ANT.”3
“Anthropic showed what’s possible when a fund like AGIX can get onto the cap table of a category-defining AI company early, and our goal is to keep finding the next opportunities like it,” said Derek Yan, CFA, Senior Investment Strategist at KraneShares. “Since that investment, we’ve continued to build out AGIX’s private holdings across robotics, photonics, autonomy, and AI-native platforms. The public core is designed to do the heavy lifting on day-to-day risk, while our private allocation gives us room to be selective and add companies we believe could become the next major value drivers in the AI cycle.”
“The AI cycle is creating value in both public and private markets, and some of the most important innovation is happening at companies that haven’t gone public yet,” said James Maund, KraneShares Head of Capital Markets and Portfolio Manager of AGIX. “We built AGIX so investors wouldn’t have to choose between the two. Pairing a public AI core with direct stakes in leaders like Anthropic gives investors a way to participate in this shift as it unfolds, not just after these companies reach the public markets.”
Building on AGIX’s Anthropic investment, it has continued to add direct stakes in private companies across the AI landscape and today holds positions in General Intuition, Ayar Labs, Standard Bots, Apptronik, Nuro, and Polymarket.
For more information on the KraneShares Public-Private AI & Technology ETF (Ticker: AGIX), top 10 holdings, and its innovative structure, please visit our AI ETF AGIX overview page.
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