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On May 11, 2026 SpaceX filed its initial Form S-1, and on June 3 the company filed an amended S-1/A that, unusually, set an exact offering price rather than a range: 555,555,555 Class A shares at $135.00, raising approximately $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion fully diluted valuation. Shares are expected to begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX later this month, per press reports. The size is unprecedented — the largest IPO in U.S. history, twice the prior record.

Few private companies attract the level of sustained institutional attention that SpaceX does — and for good reason. Across the dimensions that matter most to sophisticated investors evaluating late-stage private opportunities — market position, financial profile, and path to liquidity — SpaceX presents a compelling case. It also carries at least one meaningful new variable worth watching carefully.

Access Is Expanding — and That Raises the Bar for Discipline There’s a quiet but important signal coming out of Washington. The U.S. House has passed the INVEST Act of 2025 — a broad capital-formation package aimed at modernizing how capital flows into growing companies. It’s not law yet. The Senate still needs to act. But the direction of travel is clear: policymakers recognize that more value creation is happening in private markets — and they’re exploring ways to exp