Key Facts The Boring Company said the Series C round, led by Vy Capital and Sequoia Capital, values the firm at $5.675 billion. The infusion of funds will be used to “significantly increase hiring” to build and scale its Loop projects, high-speed transportation tunnels built underground. Boring will also use the proceeds for research and development, including developing the next line of its Prufrock tunneling machines, designed to excavate massive infrastructure projects “in a matter of weeks instead of years,” at a “fraction of the cost” and are capable of operating remotely and autonomously. Musk, who is also the founder and leader of SpaceX and Neuralink and a cofounder of Tesla, took to Twitter to encourage people to work at The Boring Company and help it “solve traffic, which plagues every major city on Earth.” Key Background Boring’s ultimate mission is to “defeat traffic,” according to Musk. To do this—what Musk terms the “ultimate boss battle”—you place transportation infrastructure underground in loops, which the company says also frees up valuable real estate for other uses, alleviates congestion and makes travel more efficient. Musk’s long-term vision for Boring are projects called Hyperloops, a series of high-speed pods shuttling passengers between cities in evacuated underground tunnels. The increased tunneling capacity of the next generation machines Boring is developing could help connect local Loops underneath cities and make this Hyperloop a reality, the company said. Boring’s projects are a long way from Musk’s vision, however, and the company’s first major project is a 29-mile tunnel network connecting 51 stations under Las Vegas, the largest subsurface transportation project in the U.S. Big Number $262.9 billion. That’s Elon Musk’s current net worth, according to Forbes, making him the richest person in the world. Further Reading