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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $175 Billion or More in Tender Offer
From Boobberg: Deal implies premium to $150 billion valuation this summer Terms, including size, not yet finalized and could change SpaceX dominates the market for commercial space launch services with its Falcon rockets. Photographer: Red Huber/Getty Images By Gillian Tan, Katie Roof, and Edward Ludlow December 6, 2023 at 5:58 PM EST Updated on December 6, 2023 at 6:54[…]
Jeff Bezos Hires Elon Musk For Rocket Launches | ZeroHedge
From: zerohedge Jeff Bezos Hires Elon Musk For Rocket Launches | ZeroHedge Jeff Bezos’s space efforts at Amazon and his space company, Blue Origin, have been hit with ‘frustrating delays’ including a rocket engine explosion during a routine test earlier this year. With mounting delays, Amazon was forced to sign a deal with rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX[…]
Tiger Global’s Top Venture Fund Suffers 18% Loss Following Portfolio Markdowns | ZeroHedge
From: zerohedge Tiger Global’s Top Venture Fund Suffers 18% Loss Following Portfolio Markdowns | ZeroHedge Following a turbulent 2022, Tiger Global Management is bracing for another challenging year marked by losses, as the firm has reduced valuations for several portfolio companies. This information comes from Bloomberg, which cites sources familiar with the situation. Tiger Global’s $13 billion[…]
What’s holding Private Markets back | ZeroHedge
From: zerohedge What’s holding Private Markets back | ZeroHedge From VCC: 11/10/2023 Private Markets including VC funding, Pre IPO secondary’s, primary financing rounds, and other private deals have ground to a halt. Overall volumes are down, number of deals are down, and the bid/ask spread has widened. Private markets are opaque and complex, however, the[…]
Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy Rocket To Launch Mysterious Space Plane Into Orbit | ZeroHedge
From: zerohedge Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy Rocket To Launch Mysterious Space Plane Into Orbit | ZeroHedge The US Space Force’s Boeing X-37B unmanned, reusable space plane will be launched via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for the first time in early December, the US military wrote in a press release. The mysterious spaceplane[…]
“300 Mbps WiFi Speed”: Entire Qatar Airways Fleet To Be Supported By Starlink | ZeroHedge
From: zerohedge “300 Mbps WiFi Speed”: Entire Qatar Airways Fleet To Be Supported By Starlink | ZeroHedge The Starlink satellite internet service, operated by Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, signed a deal with Qatar Airways to offer the new high-speed, low-latency broadband internet access on specified aircraft and routes. Qatar Airways and Starlink are in the pre-launch phase[…]
NASA’s ‘Psyche’ Lifts Off (Via SpaceX) To Probe Colossal Untapped Value Of Asteroids | ZeroHedge
From: zerohedge NASA’s ‘Psyche’ Lifts Off (Via SpaceX) To Probe Colossal Untapped Value Of Asteroids | ZeroHedge We have liftoff! NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, along with the agency’s DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) technology demonstration, launched from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:19 a.m. EDT. This will be the first interplanetary[…]
M&A deals price signal private secondary markets
PreIPOSwap.com — 10/12/2023 — Knoxville, TN Loom was purchased at a 35% discount to last round by Atlassian, for $975 Million. You can bet that Atlassian did a great job evaluating the financials of the deal, and especially, the valuation. $975 Million is a lot of money, even to a big company. Loom took the[…]
20 Reasons to invest in Private Equity
Investing in private equity, while not without risks, can be an attractive investment option for a variety of reasons. This form of investment involves taking stakes in privately held companies or assets, and it offers unique advantages that can potentially yield substantial returns. Below is a comprehensive explanation of why investing in private equity is[…]
The truth about the private equity ‘sweet spot’
PreIPOSwap.com — Knoxville, TN – 10/8/2023 — Most investors don’t know what is private equity or venture capital, but many have invested in crowdfunding campaigns or other deals which are in fact private equity. Investing in a residential rental property (real estate) is private equity. What are the average returns in PE/VC? The average returns[…]