Social Capital, formerly known as Social+Capital Partnership, is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in technology startups, offering seed funding, venture capital, and private equity. Within the space industry, Social Capital has invested in space technology companies like Relativity Space and Swarm Technologies. In 2019, they facilitated Virgin Galactic's public trading through a reverse merger with Social Capital Hedosophia.
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Changguang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. was jointly established by the Jilin Provincial People’s Government, the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, social capital, and key technical personnel.
China Rocket is a CASC initiative that offers commercial procurement of the Long March series of rockets and has developed the Jielong series funded through social capital.
Seven space SPACs have announced mergers since Virgin Galactic’s 2019 acquisition by Social Capital Hedosophia.
Virgin Galactic merged with Social Capital Hedosophia in 2019 and sparked the current wave of space SPAC transactions.
Virgin Galactic merged with the SPAC Social Capital Hedosophia in 2019, a deal that raised $460,000,000 and took Virgin Galactic public on the New York Stock Exchange in October 2019.
Virgin Galactic went public in 2019 by merging with Social Capital Hedosophia.
Virgin Galactic merged with Social Capital Hedosophia, a SPAC created by venture firm Social Capital, and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.
Virgin Galactic merged in July 2019 with Social Capital Hedosophia, a publicly traded holding company, and at that time planned to begin commercial service by mid-2020.
Virgin Galactic completed a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia in 2019 that made Virgin Galactic a publicly traded company.
Virgin Galactic filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on 2020-05-01 to register the resale of shares of a handful of its shareholders as part of its merger with Social Capital Hedosophia.
Virgin Galactic raised more than $682,000,000 in 2019, driven largely by its reverse merger with special-purpose acquisition company Social Capital Hedosophia and subsequent public trading of its stock.
Virgin Galactic merged with Social Capital Hedosophia in 2019 in a deal that provided the company with more than $800,000,000 to support development and to buy out some earlier investors.
The merger with Social Capital Hedosophia provided Virgin Galactic with more than $430,000,000 in cash.
Social Capital Hedosophia shareholders approved a merger with Virgin Galactic on 2019-10-23.
Boeing HorizonX Ventures will invest $20,000,000 in Virgin Galactic once Virgin Galactic’s merger with special-purpose acquisition company Social Capital Hedosophia closes, which is expected later this quarter.
The merger between Virgin Galactic and Social Capital Hedosophia values the combined company at $1,500,000,000 and gives Boeing a stake of a little more than 1% in Virgin Galactic.
SCH shareholders voted on 2019-09-09 to extend the deadline to close the Virgin Galactic deal by three months to 2019-12-18.
Virgin Galactic intends to merge with Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH), a publicly traded special-purpose acquisition company, in a deal that would value Virgin Galactic at $1,500,000,000 and provide an estimated $450,000,000 to fund operations and growth.
China Rocket was established in 2016 as a commercial arm of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) to develop low-cost launchers using social capital rather than state capital.
Virgin Galactic announced the merger with Social Capital Hedosophia on 2019-07-09.