{"id":1023582,"date":"2026-07-25T08:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023582"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:39:00","slug":"elon-musks-boring-company-seeks-funding-at-20-billion-valuation-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/elon-musks-boring-company-seeks-funding-at-20-billion-valuation-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Boring Company seeks funding at $20 billion valuation: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s tunnel construction startup, the Boring Company, is in talks to raise new funding that would value it at about $20 billion, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing people familiar with the \u200ctalks. <\/p>\n<p>Musk, whose \u2060business interests include Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink, founded the company to develop tunneling technology and transport systems to carry passenger pods through underground, low-pressure tubes between cities. <\/p>\n<p>The company is in talks to raise about $4 billion, WSJ said, adding \u2060that the \u200cfunding round had not yet closed, and terms could still change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s tunnel construction startup, the Boring Company, is in talks to raise new funding that would value it at about $20 billion, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing people familiar with the \u200ctalks. Musk, whose \u2060business interests include Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink, founded the company to develop tunneling technology and transport systems to carry passenger pods through underground, low-pressure tubes between cities. The company is in talks to raise about $4 billion, WSJ said, adding \u2060that the \u200cfunding round had not yet closed, and terms could still change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023612,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023582\/revisions\/1023612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}