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Slight Pullback
Shares slip modestly on the Thursday of IPO week, but remain significantly above the offer price.
Acquisition agreement announced
SpaceX agrees to buy Anysphere for $60 billion in stock, sending shares up 10%.
Stock Climbs to $201.80
SpaceX stock rallies to a high of nearly $201.80, pushing market capitalization to approximately $2.6 trillion.
SpaceX IPO First Trading Day
Shares open at $150, 11% above IPO price of $135, and close at $160.95, delivering 19% gain to IPO investors.
Partnership and option disclosed
SpaceX reveals a partnership with Cursor that includes an option to acquire the startup for $60 billion.
SpaceX IPO
Largest IPO in history raises $85.7 billion, valuing SpaceX at over $2 trillion.
SpaceX merges with xAI
The combination creates a company addressing a $28.5 trillion total addressable market.
Cursor hits $1B ARR
Year-end annualized revenue surpasses $1 billion, driven by enterprise sales.
Cursor tool launched
AI-powered coding assistant released, quickly gaining developer adoption.
Anysphere founded
Cursor's parent company established in San Francisco.
Anysphere’s Cursor, the three-year-old AI coding phenomenon, sells to SpaceX for $60 billion in the year’s biggest startup acquisition. The deal, hot on the heels of SpaceX’s IPO, underscores sky-high valuations for AI infrastructure tools and delivers a monumental return for early investors.
SpaceX’s blistering IPO has reignited the startup exit narrative. With a first-day gain of 19% and a $2.6 trillion valuation, the offering sets a staggering benchmark for private AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, and may shift how VCs evaluate deep-tech founders.
SpaceX's record IPO is cooling fast despite a $60B all-stock acquisition of AI startup Anysphere, signaling volatility that could reset exit expectations for unicorns.
AI coding startup Cursor is selling to SpaceX for $60 billion just months after a $10 billion valuation, delivering a massive win for backers like Thrive Capital and highlighting the skyrocketing value of developer AI tools.
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