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- Google’s decade-old SpaceX investment now exceeds $100 billion after debut.
- SpaceX valuation surge delivers massive gains for Google’s early stake.
- Anthropic IPO prospects could further boost Google’s investment portfolio.
The amount of money invested by Google in SpaceX has surpassed $100 billion, as highlighted by Crypto Briefing after the aerospace firm pulled its listing on the Nasdaq. Following the aerospace firm’s listing on the Nasdaq, Crypto Briefing has pointed to the fact that Google now has more than $100 billion invested in SpaceX. The development is a significant achievement for a partnership that started over a decade ago when Google invested in SpaceX in its private phase.
SpaceX ended this debut at a value of about $2.1 trillion, giving an early investor a tremendous boost in the value of their holdings. Google has thus become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the company’s move into the public markets. The tech giant made its first investment in SpaceX in 2015 with Fidelity. The two companies agreed to give each other $1 billion in exchange for 10% of each other. Since then, SpaceX has grown from a launch company to become one of the largest satellite internet networks in the world with the project called Starlink.
The report estimates that Google’s stake in SpaceX was about 6.11% at the end of 2025. But the level of ownership dilution as a result of the company’s merger with xAI earlier this year could have brought it down to about 5%. With that lower valuation, Google’s worth is currently around $105 billion. Thus, the investment was one of the most successful long-term investments in the company’s history.
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Early SpaceX Investors See Extraordinary Returns
Other investors have also profited from SpaceX’s surge in value, with venture capital firms that backed the company during its early years now sitting on holdings worth tens of billions of dollars. Crypto Briefing reports that Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has invested around $600 million in SpaceX and is today a 3% shareholder. The value of that stake at today’s price is greater than $60 billion.
Further, some investors such as Valor Equity Partners, DFJ Growth, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz have seen significant gains since the value of their investments has increased. Furthermore, SpaceX’s public launch has brought back the discussion of the long-term gains of investing in the private market. The firm is considered a textbook case by many institutional investors of how early-stage investments can deliver high returns when a business goes global.
SpaceX isn’t the only private investment that’s adding value to Google. The company also has a big stake in an artificial intelligence company called Anthropic, which is one of the most watched of the artificial intelligence companies in the market. Estimates suggest that Google holds a 14% stake in Anthropic, a position that could become even more valuable if the company proceeds with its planned IPO.
Anthropic IPO Draws Growing Attention
Anthropic recently filed a private draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering with the AI firm being universally anticipated to go public later this year. If Google manages to list successfully, it will get another significant addition to the investment portfolio. However, at the moment the best private investment success for SpaceX is its own.
In conclusion, SpaceX’s time on the Nasdaq has led to Google’s ten-year investment being valued at more than $100 billion, and it is a testament to the returns that can be generated from one of Silicon Valley’s most successful strategic investments.
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