Shaires Holdings (SHR) has completed its latest fundraising, raising US$14.3 million through a combination of a WRAP Retail Offer and second institutional tranche as it pushes total capital and contributed assets beyond its initial US$100 million objective.
The company raised US$3.4 million through the retail offer and US$10.9 million from institutional investors, with 715,306 new shares issued at US$20 each.
More than 670 new shareholders joined the register through the retail offer, materially broadening Shaires' shareholder base and free float.
The Capital Access Window has now closed, with the company's shares resuming trading on AIM today.
The latest fundraising follows Shaires' initial portfolio launch on 13 August, its first institutional fundraise announced on 30 July and a February 2026 fundraise. Taken together, these transactions have generated about US$78 million of capital and contributed assets.
But the company already has binding agreements in place giving it the right to acquire up to a further US$30 million of contributed assets.
If completed, that would take total capital raised and contributed shares to about US$108 million, exceeding Shaires' initial US$100 million target.
Importantly, the retail participation is significant for a company whose proposition is centred on bringing private technology exposure into the public markets.
Shaires' initial portfolio includes private technology names spanning artificial intelligence, payments, robotics, quantum computing and biotechnology, including Anthropic, Stripe, ByteDance, Figure AI, SandboxAQ, Moonshot AI and Colossal Biosciences.
The company is now looking beyond that opening portfolio, with more than US$500 million of further cash and in-kind investment opportunities under active negotiation.
Shaires Holdings Executive Chairman Suhail Rizvi said: "The completion of the Fundraise concludes the launch phase of Shaires and is a defining milestone for the Company. We set out to establish the first AIM-quoted company of its kind, one created to give public market investors direct exposure to the leaders of the AI supercycle. That company now exists, funded, with binding agreements for over one hundred million dollars of capital and assets, and with a register that spans institutions, founders and more than six hundred and seventy new private investors."
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Shaires has moved quickly from launch to a funded private-technology portfolio, while bringing more than 670 new retail investors onto its register.
With binding agreements potentially taking total capital and contributed assets to US$108 million, the focus now shifts from establishing the platform to scaling it. The US$500 million pipeline gives Shaires plenty of room to test whether its public-market route into private technology can become a bigger proposition.