(Tiper Stock Exchange) – SpaceXthe US aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, would be in talks to raise funds at a valuation of more than $150 billion. Bloomberg wrote, citing sources familiar with the matter and stressing that it would be a significant increase from the $125 billion valuation the company obtained earlier this year.
The shares would be offered at around $85 each, according to the leak. Investors could buy new SpaceX shares at the same time as i employees sell through a private placementor a takeover bid, at the same valuation.
SpaceX is theonly private company able to return a spacecraft from low Earth orbit and in 2012 the Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to carry cargo to and from the International Space Station. In 2020, SpaceX became the first private company to bring humans there as well.
SpaceX also launched starlinksa constellation of satellites for low latency broadband global satellite internet access.