(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX reached a valuation of $100 billion after a sale of its shares on the secondary market, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
The shares were offered at $560 each, the person said, 33% above the $420-a-share price in a February funding round that valued the company at $74 billion.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., as the company is formally known, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
The secondary sale comes ahead of the Hawthorne, California-based company’s third rotation of astronauts for NASA on Oct. 30. It gives SpaceX a higher market value than the roughly $97 billion of Lockheed Martin Corp., the world’s largest pure-play defense contractor.
SpaceX already sits among the world’s most highly-valued private companies, a list that includes China’s ByteDance and Stripe. A secondary transaction in June valued Stripe at $152 billion, according to data from PitchBook.
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SpaceX’s investors include Sequoia Capital, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Alphabet Inc. and Baillie Gifford, according to PitchBook.
The latest sale was reported earlier by CNBC.
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