July 21, 2026 - Moonshot is preparing to begin discussions in August for a final round of fundraising before a Hong Kong initial public offering, targeting a valuation of as much as $50 billion, and as early as in 6 months, according to a report from Bloomberg News.
Will Moonshot (Kimi) reach or be above US$50B valuation upon IPO?
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Moonshot is now in the process of wrapping a fundraising round that may value the three-year-old startup at more than $30 billion, according to sources from Bloomberg.
Chinese tech firms are known to raise capital at a velocity that is near-unparalleled in the US—particularly when they are dominating headlines. Moonshot is demonstrating exactly that playbook, analyzed by Yahoo Finance.
Moonshot had been preparing to pull the trigger on its debut before the release of the Kimi K3 last week, a more advanced open-weight model that it said outperforms all rivals except for Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 on overall capability.
Demand for Kimi’s K3 surged so much over the past 48 hours that Moonshot has temporarily paused new subscriptions with the goal of “prioritizing compute for current members,” the company said in a social media post Sunday.
Many observers were impressed by Kimi K3’s capability and size — at 2.8 trillion parameters — for an open-weight model, meaning its parameters are available for users to download and customize.
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