elon musk is getting help from more than a dozen additional names as he looks to buy twitter inc the tesla inc tsla chief disclosed in a thursday morning filing that he had obtained new financing commitments worth 7139 billion in aggregate to support his pending acquisition of twitter twtr for 5420 a share or about 44 billion the investors include oracle corp orcl cofounder larry ellison’s revocable trust which is committing 1 billion sequoia capital fund has agreed to kick in 800 million while cryptocurrency platform binance has agreed to contribute 500 million additionally musk disclosed in the filing that prince alwaleed bin talal bin abdulaziz alsaud of saudi arabia has committed to contribute about 35 million twitter shares so that he can retain an equity investment in the socialmedia company upon completion of the merger while musk had originally pointed to 125 billion in commitments for marginloan funding in an april filing his disclosures this week indicated that the margin loan has been cut back to a 625 billion aggregate principal amount musk also provided an equity commitment letter in april pointing to 21 billion in financing commitments associated with his bid but the latest filing raised the commitment amount to 2725 billion twitter’s board of directors accepted musk’s bid to buy the company in an april 25 agreement the deal is subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals opinion it looks like nothing will stop elon musk from owning twitter musk a twitter power user has been critical of the platform’s approach to content moderation and has floated several new features that the service could potentially introduce under his ownership musk teased the possibility of endtoend encryption for direct messages a “slight cost” for commercial and government users of the service and authentication of “all real humans” twitter shares were ahead 19 in premarket trading which would indicate a stock price of 4997 if those gains are reflected at the open shares of tesla were down 04 premarket