Who Owns SpaceX?
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Ownership Chain
SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company that designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft, operates the Starlink satellite internet constellation, and is developing the reusable Starship system for lunar and interplanetary missions.
SpaceX appears to be independent with no known parent company.
SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company that designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft, operates the Starlink satellite internet constellation, and is developing the reusable Starship system for lunar and interplanetary missions.
SpaceX appears to be independent with no known parent company.
Major Shareholders
SpaceX
Major Shareholders
| Name | Type | Ownership | Voting | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Elon Musk Founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX and by far its largest shareholder. Multiple mainstream reports tied to SpaceX’s December 2025 $800B tender offer and planned 2026 IPO estimate that Musk owns about a 42% equity stake in SpaceX; earlier analyses and investor commentary explain that, via a dual‑class structure with super‑voting shares, this translates into roughly 78–79% of voting power, giving him effective control of the company. | Founder | 42.0% | 78.0% | Dec 2025 |
Founders Fund U.S. venture capital firm co‑founded by Peter Thiel and one of SpaceX’s earliest and most important outside backers. Founders Fund led a pivotal 2008 investment round when SpaceX was close to running out of cash and has participated in later growth financing; it is consistently cited in coverage of SpaceX’s cap table as a major shareholder, although its exact current percentage is not publicly disclosed. | Institutional | — | — | Dec 2025 |
Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC and affiliated funds) Large U.S. asset manager that first bought into SpaceX in the 2015 Google/Fidelity $1B round and has since accumulated additional shares across multiple funds. A December 2024 filing showed Fidelity’s flagship Contrafund alone valuing its SpaceX stake at more than $2.7B, making SpaceX one of its biggest positions; SpaceX is also held in other Fidelity vehicles, and the firm is routinely described as a major SpaceX shareholder. SpaceX’s private status means Fidelity’s exact percentage ownership is not publicly broken out. | Institutional | — | — | Dec 2024 |
Alphabet Inc. (Google and GV) Google’s parent company, Alphabet, became a key corporate investor in SpaceX in 2015 when Google and Fidelity invested $1B at a valuation just over $10B, receiving a combined stake of just under 10%. Later reporting and Alphabet‑focused analyses confirm that Alphabet still holds its SpaceX position, which has generated large unrealized gains as SpaceX’s valuation rose from roughly $350B in 2024 to about $800B in the December 2025 tender offer; however, the company does not disclose an exact percentage for this stake. | Corporate | — | — | Dec 2025 |
Baillie Gifford (via Scottish Mortgage, Schiehallion, US Growth and Edinburgh Worldwide trusts) Edinburgh‑based investment manager Baillie Gifford has built one of the largest non‑founder positions in SpaceX through several of its closed‑end investment trusts, including Scottish Mortgage, Schiehallion, Baillie Gifford US Growth and Edinburgh Worldwide. Following SpaceX’s late‑2025 insider tender that valued the company at about $800B, these trusts reported that SpaceX accounted for roughly 11–16% of each portfolio and disclosed very large uplifts in the value of their SpaceX holdings (for example, Scottish Mortgage’s stake alone was estimated at nearly £2.2B), implying a multi‑billion‑dollar aggregate ownership but without a precise percentage of SpaceX’s total equity. | Institutional | — | — | Dec 2025 |
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