--- title: "Prominent South African investor joins the board of SpaceX" url: https://daily.dev/posts/prominent-south-african-investor-joins-the-board-of-spacex-0bxeyxbvd source_url: https://techcentral.co.za/prominent-south-african-investor-joins-the-board-of-spacex/282815 type: article source: "TechCentral" published: 2026-06-18T07:13:34.049Z updated: 2026-06-18T07:13:55.744Z tags: ["venture-capital", "spacex", "ipo"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Prominent South African investor joins the board of SpaceX **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SpaceX has appointed South African-born venture capitalist Roelof Botha to its board of directors as an independent common stock director, effective 16 June 2026. Botha, formerly CFO of PayPal under Elon Musk and longtime managing partner at Sequoia Capital, will join the audit committee to support financial oversight as SpaceX transitions to a publicly traded company following its record $75-billion IPO on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX, which pushed its valuation past $2.1 trillion. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [South Africans took a sizeable bite of SpaceX after historic IPO](https://daily.dev/posts/south-africans-took-a-sizeable-bite-of-spacex-after-historic-ipo-odqcxl2rh) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Roelof Botha explains why Sequoia supports Shaun Maguire after COO quit](https://daily.dev/posts/roelof-botha-explains-why-sequoia-supports-shaun-maguire-after-coo-quit-oiuqobcs2) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes](https://daily.dev/posts/before-spacex-ipo-investors-in-china-secretly-acquired-stakes-xid6n4f27) · Ars Technica · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#venture-capital](https://daily.dev/tags/venture-capital), [#spacex](https://daily.dev/tags/spacex), [#ipo](https://daily.dev/tags/ipo) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/prominent-south-african-investor-joins-the-board-of-spacex-0bxeyxbvd)