Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. The information was revealed only after ProPublica went to court to obtain it.

https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-elon-musk-ipo-foreign-investors-china?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=secondary by Justin Elliott and Joshua Kaplan A businessman with ties to Chinese military contractors was among the overseas investors who acquired stakes in SpaceX while it was still a private company. An entity linked to the Qatari royal family also took a stake.