Company
Aerospace company operating the Starlink satellite constellation and orbital launch services.
Hawthorne, OS
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round SpaceX raised.
Investors whose own portfolio pages list SpaceX, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.
| Investor | Listed on |
|---|---|
| Trinity Ventures | its portfolio page ↗ |
The transaction that ended SpaceX's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
| Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | IPO | Jun 2026 | US$75b (A$104b) | Forbes Australia, Dealroom |
Companies SpaceX acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Elon Musk | Founder | Dealroom, Crunchbase News, Defence Connect, AgFunderNews, Women's Agenda, SmartCompany |
Stories naming SpaceX. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Profiles space investor Will Scully-Power, whose Pine Gap firm backs Australian space startups and plans a larger US fund with partners; defence VC Beaten Zone has also wrapped up a $26 million fund.
An AFR managed-funds topic page: a star small-caps deputy goes solo with a new Sydney firm, Gigacomm buys rival DGtek, Google plans a multibillion-dollar domestic bond, plus fund manager and market stories.
Ablano's boron nitride nanomaterial flew on a suborbital rocket and its coated panels were recovered for analysis in Australia; partners Research Sat and Implement Space helped run the test toward commercialising durable components for reusable launch vehicles.
Investible's note explains its pre-seed backing of satellite startup Outlier Space alongside GD1 and others, arguing uncrewed return-capable platforms will make off-world manufacturing viable as the ISS retires.
Defense startup Singularity has surfaced from stealth, securing a large Series A co-led by two venture firms to scale production of affordable systems that counter cheap drones, with backing from several established investors.
Pengana's AI trust is now on the ASX as AIX after a $267 million IPO raise from wholesale investors, opening retail access to private AI companies; GCM Grosvenor manages the portfolio.
Markets newsletter reports Google's equity offering with a completed first tranche, SpaceX and Anthropic IPO filings, xAI's earlier merger into SpaceX, fast-food bankruptcies blamed on GLP-1 drugs, and a live tour wrap-up.
Weekly roundup of seven Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling $17 million, including two startups entering Y Combinator, plus a new QuantX Labs board director and SmartrMail's earlier sale to Relay Commerce.
Bloomberg-sourced report says Sequoia's incoming co-leaders have gathered roughly seven billion dollars for a new vehicle backing large, often AI, companies; the piece also covers leadership changes and Wiz's sale to Alphabet.
Blackbird's Rick Baker recounts backing rocket firm Gilmour Space from its 2017 Series A to a newly closed A$217 million Series E at a valuation above US$1 billion.
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Crunchbase's 2026 forecast lists fifteen late-stage companies it deems probable or very likely IPO candidates, profiling each with past raises, valuations and secondary sales; Australia's Canva makes the list.
Crunchbase's unicorn tracker analysis finds AI-driven valuations added over half a trillion dollars in months, reshuffling the top twenty and minting eleven new decacorns in H2 2025, including Figure, Kraken, Mistral and Sierra.
Gilmour Space's Eris rocket lifted off but exploded seconds later near Bowen; the founder hailed the short flight as a milestone, while its ElaraSat satellite bus flew successfully on a SpaceX rideshare mission.
Gilmour Space Technologies flew its Eris rocket for the first time, an Australian-designed orbital vehicle; the brief test ended early via anomaly, with learnings feeding a follow-on vehicle now being built.
Gilmour Space Technologies has secured the maximum $5 million grant under the federal Industry Growth Program, money earmarked for its next-generation engine, even though its founder publicly attacked the national space regulator.
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Fleet Space will partner with US clean-fuel startup Koloma to find geologic hydrogen beneath mountain ranges using satellite sensing. The piece recalls Fleet's $150 million raise and Koloma's well-known investors.
DroneShield plans to expand into Latin America and has appointed Carlos Gutierrez, previously at SES Satellites and Starlink, as regional director to lead the push.
Adelaide IoT satellite firm Myriota has raised $50 million, led by the National Reconstruction Fund’s $25 million contribution, with Main Sequence and Inter Valley Ventures also backing; an NRFC director has resigned.
An Australian satellite servicing firm leads an India-Australia debris management mission backed by an $8.5 million government grant; two other companies also won awards under the bilateral space program.
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Valiant Space's VS-1 thruster has reached orbit aboard Space Machines Company's Optimus servicing vehicle after flying on a Falcon 9, with its development backed by an Australian Space Agency grant programme.
Space Machines Company says its Optimus orbital servicing vehicle, described as Australia's largest private satellite, lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, with Australian firms and research partners among those involved in the mission.
TechCrunch profile of Esper, an Australian startup preparing low-cost hyperspectral satellites, recalling its $1 million pre-seed close, grants from a foundation and the federal government, and a Techstars accelerator stint.
Mike Cannon-Brookes' investment vehicle Grok Ventures has hired Tan Kueh, ex-Macquarie, UBS and BlackRock, as CEO, joining CIO Jeremy Kwong-Law, as it sharpens its strategy around climate investing.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering Agrotoken's Series A, raises by Mediterranean Food Lab, Better Juice, Burro, SeeTree and farm-ng, the MaxAB–Wasoko merger, v2food's brand acquisition, a Flashfood CEO change, and Drizly's shutdown.
Advanced Navigation received a $306,631 grant from the Australian Department of Defence's Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority program to develop local photonic chip manufacturing; its Boreas X90 will fly on a Space Machines orbital vehicle.
The University of Melbourne's SpIRIT gamma-ray nanosatellite has launched, with Australian Space Agency grants of nearly $7 million supporting the project alongside Italian and local industry partners.
Crunchbase's October 2023 unicorn board update: nine newcomers led by two cybersecurity firms, with Sydney's Employment Hero reaching unicorn status, Shield AI revalued upward, and Convoy and Olive AI shutting down.
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HEO Robotics' Holmes Imager, described as the first commercial camera for non-Earth imaging built entirely in Australia, launched on a SpaceX rocket, with several local manufacturing and research partners credited.
Roundup of Australian manufacturing news: a university metaverse partnership, a CSIRO digital appointment, electric buses in Queensland, two secured funding facilities, and several workforce and recycling initiatives.
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Roundup of manufacturing items: a satellite launch plan, a biotech tax incentive payment, a boot range launch, a solar CEO's exit, a ferry study, a university battery hub, and a recycling trial.
Roundup of manufacturing items: a ventilation grant program reopens, MGC Pharma reports Long Covid trial results, CSIRO and CSCRC projects win iAwards, Spiral Blue completes satellite integration, and AML3D raises capital.
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Valiant Space receives a government grant under the Moon to Mars Initiative to scale and flight-test its non-toxic thruster, with orbital demonstrations planned aboard SpaceX missions ahead of a 2023 market entry.
Twitter's board has approved Elon Musk's multi-billion-dollar takeover offer, prompting the author to ask whether the platform's harassment and safety problems will improve or worsen for women under its new owner.
An Australian maker of satellite thrusters will fly its valve technology on a SpaceX Falcon 9 via Skykraft's rideshare, following a space agency grant the previous year to develop the thruster.
Satirical awards column recalling 2021 business failures and wins: Hosking's Redbubble share sale, Greensill's collapse, GetSwift's downfall, Better.com's layoffs and funding, Moviepass's sale, and Digital World's Trump SPAC deal.
Year-end review of Australian additive manufacturing in 2021: MMI grants for Romar, Titomic and SPEE3D, Titomic's raises and acquisitions, Conflux's Series A, Aurora Labs' capital raise and leadership changes, and AML3D's listing anniversary.
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Non-alcoholic spirits maker Lyre's raised $37 million led by D Squared Capital at a $500 million valuation, with earlier backers joining; funds go mainly to marketing and more than 50 new jobs.
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