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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.

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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.

RelationshipsCapabilityFinancialValue 3.5Dec 22, 2025State-owned enterprises and commercial space in China

Seven space SPACs have announced mergers since Virgin Galactic’s 2019 acquisition by Social Capital Hedosophia.

GeneralRelationshipsFinancialValue 2.0May 4, 2021AST SpaceMobile adds public company expertise to leadership team

Virgin Galactic merged with Social Capital Hedosophia in 2019 and sparked the current wave of space SPAC transactions.

RelationshipsValue 3.8Mar 19, 2021Satellite veterans warn of space SPAC downside

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.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.6Mar 1, 2021Rocket Lab to go public through SPAC merger and develop medium-lift rocket

Virgin Galactic went public in 2019 by merging with Social Capital Hedosophia.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.0Feb 2, 2021Astra to go public through merger with SPAC

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.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.0Oct 8, 2020Momentus deal could mark new wave of space companies going public

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.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Aug 3, 2020Virgin Galactic delays SpaceShipTwo commercial flights to 2021

Virgin Galactic completed a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia in 2019 that made Virgin Galactic a publicly traded company.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Jul 15, 2020Virgin Galactic hires Disney executive as new CEO

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.

LegalFinancialGovernanceValue 4.0May 12, 2020Branson to sell part of Virgin Galactic stake

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.

FinancialRelationshipsValue 4.2Mar 9, 2020Startup financing flourished in 2019 with no sign of slowing

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.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.6Mar 6, 2020Why the smallsat bubble may deflate, but not burst

The merger with Social Capital Hedosophia provided Virgin Galactic with more than $430,000,000 in cash.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.5Nov 24, 2019Virgin Galactic rides out early struggles on Wall Street

Social Capital Hedosophia shareholders approved a merger with Virgin Galactic on 2019-10-23.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Oct 24, 2019Virgin Galactic merger wins shareholder approval

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.

RelationshipsFinancialPlanValue 4.6Oct 8, 2019Boeing to invest in Virgin Galactic

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.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.0Oct 8, 2019Boeing to invest 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.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Oct 2, 2019Virgin Galactic to fly Italian Air Force research mission

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.

RelationshipsFinancialGrowthValue 4.8Oct 2, 2019Virgin Galactic to fly Italian Air Force research mission

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.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 3.4Aug 19, 2019Chinese commercial rocket Smart Dragon-1 reaches orbit with first launch

Virgin Galactic announced the merger with Social Capital Hedosophia on 2019-07-09.

RelationshipsValue 4.2Jul 18, 2019Investors don’t see Virgin Galactic deal as model for space industry
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