{"id":3489741,"date":"2026-04-30T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/spacex-investor-137-ventures-secures-700m-for-a-pair-of-growth-stage-funds\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:29:49","slug":"spacex-investor-137-ventures-secures-700m-for-a-pair-of-growth-stage-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/spacex-investor-137-ventures-secures-700m-for-a-pair-of-growth-stage-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX investor 137 Ventures secures $700M for a pair of growth-stage funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/spacex-investor-137-ventures-secures-700m-for-a-pair-of-growth-stage-funds.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The venture capital firm 137 Ventures declared on Thursday that it has secured over $700 million through two new growth-stage funds aimed at supporting startups \u201cwith the potential for substantial market influence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the previous year, the firm, established by former Founders Fund investor Justin Fishner-Wolfson, mentioned it has invested more than a billion dollars into firms focused on defense, AI, and industrial systems. Its investment portfolio features AI agent company Cognition, AI-driven manufacturing firm Hadrian Automation, and defense enterprise Anduril.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, it is a noteworthy investor in Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, which is anticipated to have a groundbreaking IPO this year that could appraise the firm at over a trillion dollars. Bloomberg highlighted that 137 Ventures initially invested in SpaceX in 2010 and has since issued around two dozen checks to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/spacex-investor-137-ventures-secures-700m-for-a-pair-of-growth-stage-funds.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The venture capital firm 137 Ventures declared on Thursday that it has secured over $700 million through two new growth-stage funds aimed at supporting startups \u201cwith the potential for substantial market influence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the previous year, the firm, established by former Founders Fund investor Justin Fishner-Wolfson, mentioned it has invested more than a billion dollars into firms focused on defense, AI, and industrial systems. Its investment portfolio features AI agent company Cognition, AI-driven manufacturing firm Hadrian Automation, and defense enterprise Anduril.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, it is a noteworthy investor in Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, which is anticipated to have a groundbreaking IPO this year that could appraise the firm at over a trillion dollars. Bloomberg highlighted that 137 Ventures initially invested in SpaceX in 2010 and has since issued around two dozen checks to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3489742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3489741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}