socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX is seeking yet another massive round of investment, according to a report, which would value the company at between $60 billion to $92 billion. SpaceX has raised more than $5.4 The size of the round was unknown. The report--from Business Insider--cited "three people who are familiar with the deal."

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Mountain View-based Google confirmed in its quarterly earnings report this week that it was the biggest investor in the recent, $1 billion funding round for Hawthorne-based SpaceX. The remainder of the funding round came from Fidelity, Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Valor Equity Partners and Capricorn. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has raised another, $1.9 The new funds reportedly value SpaceX at $46 billion, according to Bloomberg. SpaceX recently launched two astronauts into space for NASA, and just set a new record for re-use of a Falcon 9 booster Tuesday morning. Source of the new funding was not announced.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Scott Painter’s next auto venture secures $1 billion debt and equity funding, Air Force adds more than $40 million to SpaceX engine contract and Snap overestimates Spectacle demand leaving hundreds of thousands unsold.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Rumors around town over the last few years have included OpenX and SpaceX : there''s also been speculation that whole home, wireless audio maker Sonos might be thinking about an IPO as well. rubicon project advertising merger exchange exit technology legalzoom openx spacex' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has raised another, $1.9 The new funds reportedly value SpaceX at $46 billion, according to Bloomberg. SpaceX recently launched two astronauts into space for NASA, and just set a new record for re-use of a Falcon 9 booster Tuesday morning. Source of the new funding was not announced.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Sequoia Capital''s Douglas Leone, was placed at number six for his role in funding San Diego''s ServiceNow ; Bessemer''s Byron Deeter was ranked #36 due to his role in funding Santa Monica''s Cornerstone OnDemand ; Stephen Jurveston, of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, was ranked at #59 for his investment in Hawthorne-based SpaceX.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The startup is led by CEO John Vlay, and says it has raised more than $2M from individual investors, including Wavemaker Partners and Wavemaker Labs; the company says its founders come from Jensen Landscaping, Miso Robotics, SpaceX and Microsoft. Graze says it is using equity crowdfunding through SeedInvest for its funding efforts.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Manufacturing can be done within 60 days, according to the company’s claims, and its vehicles have a payload capacity of up to 1250 kilograms ( SpaceX’s largest rockets will have roughly 100 times that payload capacity). Relativity Space chief technology officer Jordan Noone next to one of the company’s 3-D printers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

When you see startups like SpaceX and Pinterest grow from a low valuation to a billion dollars in just a few years, it’s easy to assume that if you just keep doing what you are doing, you can get there as well. Of course, that means a mindset willing to give up much more equity, and taking on a whole new level of risk.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In fact, an entrepreneur friend of mine, who made millions on her marketing expertise, asserted recently that most inventors fail in business because they refuse to believe that any business expertise or experience is worth more than 5 percent in partner equity. The odds are still against you being the next one.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two two founders in a garage?—?(HP HP Style) are dead. just to name a few!

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla Motors, PayPal. Finally, and probably his best-known company, SpaceX is Musk’s third hyper-successful business. What would this list be without Elon Musk? billion in shares.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Meanwhile, we saw significant progress in SpaceX’s commercial crew program, and plenty of activity among startups big and small. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon arrives in Florida. The spacecraft that SpaceX will use to fly astronauts for the first time is now in Florida, at its launch site for final preparations before it takes off.

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