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Elon Musk’s Boring Company raises $3B at $23B valuation, led by UAE

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The Boring Company has raised $3 billion in a Series D funding round led by the United Arab Emirates, valuing the company at $23 billion.

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The Boring Company has closed a $3 billion Series D funding round led by the United Arab Emirates, valuing Elon Musk's tunneling venture at $23 billion. That's roughly four times its 2022 valuation of about $5.7 billion. And most of the case for it sits in tunnels the company hasn't dug yet. The company announced the round on September 9. Alongside the UAE and its affiliated investment entities, the investor list includes Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Temasek, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Human Capital, Shamal Holding, and Baron Capital. Musk marked the raise with a line about the company's reason to exist: "Defeating traffic is the ultimate boss battle. Even the most powerful humans in the world cannot defeat traffic." The money is earmarked for hiring across engineering, operations, and production, for scaling Loop projects, and for more Prufrock tunnel-boring machine R&D. The centerpiece of the deal is a commitment to build more than 150 kilometers of tunnel across the UAE. That's on top of the Dubai Loop pilot the company was already awarded: 6.4 km of tunnel and four stations, with construction slated to start late 2026. So the country leading the round is also the customer for the biggest piece of work it's funding. Precast production for the Dubai pilot is underway, per the company, but no passenger tunnel is open in the UAE yet. The one place Boring...

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Amount
$3B
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Sep 9, 2026
Round
Series D
Financing type
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