Antonio Gracias Spacex Investment Could Reach $90 Billion
Antonio gracias spacex investment is now tied to a $1.8 trillion SpaceX valuation, with his 7.2% stake potentially worth about $90 billion after the company set a $135 share price for its initial public offering on June 3. For a private equity investor who once backed Elon Musk’s company with a $1 million personal loan, the IPO turns an old rescue into a paper fortune on a scale few private holdings ever reach.
June 3 SpaceX price
$135 a share was the price SpaceX set for the initial public offering, a level that values the company at $1.8 trillion and puts Gracias’s ownership in a different bracket from his current $4.3 billion net worth. The math is simple: if the offering holds, Valor Equity Partners’ 7.2% stake moves from a private mark on paper to an estimated near-$90 billion position.
7.2% is the stake held through Valor Equity Partners, the firm Gracias founded in 1995. He remains a SpaceX executive, and that role sits on top of a long record inside Musk-related businesses, including service on Tesla’s board from 2008 through 2021.
Gracias and Musk since 2008
$1 million was the personal loan Gracias extended to SpaceX in 2008, when the company was struggling financially. He also joined the SpaceX board that same year, and Musk later told an Economic Club of Chicago audience in 2012, “I don’t think we would have made it without his help.” That line now reads less like praise and more like a balance-sheet fact: the early capital came when SpaceX needed it most, and the upside arrived years later.
20 years is how long Gracias said in January 2025 that he had worked closely with Musk. In the same post on X, he wrote, “His heart is pure, and his sole mission is to help humanity.” The relationship helps explain why one early loan and one long-held stake can still matter so much once the company can price itself like a public giant.
June 12 Nasdaq trading
June 12 is the date SpaceX was expected to start trading on the Nasdaq, the moment that will show whether the $1.8 trillion valuation survives contact with the public market. If it does, Gracias’s position stops being a private wager and becomes a mark-to-market holding with one of the largest dollar outcomes tied to Musk’s companies.
$90 billion is the figure that now frames the upside on Gracias’s 7.2% stake, and it is the number investors will keep checking against whatever the stock does after listing. For readers watching Musk’s private empire, the practical takeaway is narrower: one early backer’s rescue loan in 2008 has become the kind of position that can dominate his wealth if the offering price sticks.
