Strategy Raises $15B with AI-Designed Financing Tools for Aggressive Bitcoin Buy

Strategy Inc., the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, has raised $15 billion in capital using AI-designed financing tools to fuel its Bitcoin buying spree. The company's CEO, Michael Saylor, turned to ChatGPT after hitting practical ceilings with traditional financing methods.

Saylor's team used AI to design a new class of preferred stock instruments that blend characteristics of both debt and equity. One instrument alone raised approximately $2.5 billion, which Saylor described as the largest IPO of its kind at the time. Subsequent offerings stacked on top of that, eventually pushing the total haul to around $15 billion.

Strategy has deployed the proceeds into Bitcoin at an aggressive pace, bringing the company's total holdings to 843,738 BTC as of late May 2026. The variable dividend feature of STRC is particularly noteworthy, as it stabilizes the instrument's price near par and appeals to income-focused investors.