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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal\u2019s investment firm Kingdom Holding Co. surged at Sunday\u2019s open after SpaceX\u2019s share gains on its first day of trading drove the value of the Saudi firm\u2019s holding to almost $7 billion, or roughly half its market capitalization.<\/p>\n

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Kingdom Holding said it holds 42.4 million shares in SpaceX, valued at $6.8 billion based on the company\u2019s closing price. Kingdom shares rose as much as 5%, valuing the company at 56 billion riyals ($14.9 billion).<\/p>\n

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SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies, began trading on Friday after raising $75 billion in the largest listing of all time. Its stock closed up 19% at $160.95, netting tens of billions of dollars in returns for a small number of firms.<\/p>\n

Founders Fund, a venture firm led by Musk\u2019s longtime associate Peter Thiel, owns a roughly 3% stake, while Andreessen Horowitz will get the biggest return in its history, Bloomberg News has reported. Sequoia Capital, which first backed SpaceX at the end of 2019, owns about 1.5% of the company.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Kingdom Holding said its holding represents 0.34% of SpaceX, while Prince Alwaleed\u2019s personal exposure amounts to about 0.29% of Elon Musk\u2019s rocket and satellite company. The holdings have propelled Alwaleed\u2019s net worth to just over $27 billion, a decade-high, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.<\/p>\n

The Saudi billionaire first threw his lot in with Musk in 2022 when the Tesla Inc. co-founder bought Twitter \u2014 since rebranded as X \u2014 for $44 billion, rolling over his equity alongside investors like Larry Ellison and Andreessen Horowitz.<\/p>\n

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The SpaceX listing will benefit other investors in Saudi Arabia too, including the $1 trillion Public Investment Fund, which owns a stake in Alwaleed\u2019s firm, as well as the country as a whole, which has made artificial intelligence a central plank of its efforts to diversify the economy away from oil.<\/p>\n

Humain, a PIF-backed AI firm, invested $3 billion into Musk\u2019s xAI this year as part of a $20 billion funding round. That deal gave Humain a significant minority stake in xAI, with holdings that it said at the time would convert into SpaceX shares.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, too, regional investors have been building positions across the AI ecosystem. Abu Dhabi\u2019s MGX holds stakes in Anthropic PBC, OpenAI and xAI, an investing hat trick that gives it exposure to three of the most closely-watched AI firms. Qatar has pursued a similar strategy, investing in both Anthropic and xAI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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While the AI push is often viewed as a recent phenomenon, some Gulf investors have been making bets on transformative technologies for years. Abu Dhabi\u2019s IHC invested in SpaceX in 2020, while Aabar took a stake in Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Galactic in 2009, years before space and AI became market obsessions.<\/p>\n

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