Last mentioned: Jul 6, 2026
Joins NASDAQ 100
SpaceX is added to the NASDAQ 100 index, becoming eligible for trillions in passive fund tracking.
Index Inclusion Effective
SpaceX officially becomes a constituent of the Nasdaq 100, triggering passive fund rebalancing.
Nasdaq 100 Inclusion Confirmed
Nasdaq announces that SpaceX will be added to the Nasdaq 100 index.
SpaceX IPO
SpaceX goes public with a market cap of $2.11 trillion on its first trading day.
SpaceX Public Debut
SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq after its highly anticipated IPO.
SpaceX’s unprecedented 25-day journey from IPO to NASDAQ 100, enabled by a special rule change, provides a new blueprint for mega-unicorns eyeing public markets. The move reshapes the calculus for late-stage startups considering liquidity events.
SpaceX's journey from private behemoth to Nasdaq 100 constituent in less than a month sets a powerful precedent for VC-backed companies eyeing public markets, as billions in passive funds await those that can navigate the newly relaxed index rules.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Nasdaq 100 across our startup coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running startup beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
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| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Nasdaq 100 was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |