May 26 (Reuters) - Elon Musk has won the backing of some of the world's wealthiest investors for his $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. From Oracle Corp's co-founder Larry Ellison, a self-proclaimed close friend of Musk, to Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who had earlier rejected the takeover bid, a bunch of investors had thrown their weight behind the offer. Musk on Wednesday pledged an additional $6.25 billion in equity financing, reducing the billionaire's margin loan against his Tesla Inc shares to zero. Here's how the deal stacks up: ** Musk increased his financing commitment to $33.5 billion, from $27.25 billion - including the $7.14 billion funding announced earlier in May. ** The margin loan from Morgan Stanley tied to his Tesla stock, which stood at $6.25 billion, has now been removed from the financing equation. ** Musk has secured commitments from banks for $13 billion in loans secured against Twitter shares Following is a list of investors who have together promised about $7 billion in funding, according to a filing on Thursday: Equity Investor Description Equity Commitment A.M. Management & - $25 million Consulting AH Capital Management VC firm founded by Marc $400 million Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Aliya Capital SpaceX investor $360 million Partners BAMCO Investment adviser $100 million Binance Cryptocurrency firm $500 million Brookfield Canadian investment firm $250 million with over $690 billion assets under management DFJ Growth IV Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX $100 million Partners and The Boring Company investor Fidelity Management & Acts as the investment $316 million Research Company advisor to Fidelity's family of mutual funds Honeycomb Asset Private investment firm led $5 million Management by Chief Investment Officer David Fiszel Key Wealth Advisors $30 million Lawrence J. Ellison Oracle co-founder Larry $1 billion Revocable Trust Ellison's trust Litani Ventures Chicago-based VC firm $25 million Qatar Holding Investment house founded by $375 million Qatar Investment Authority Sequoia Capital Fund Invested in The Boring $800 million Company Strauss Capital LLC - $150 million Tresser Blvd 402 LLC - $8.5 million (Cartenna) VyCapital Invested in The Boring $700 million Company Witkoff Capital New York-based real estate $100 million tycoon Steven Witkoff's firm Saudi Arabian Twitter investor $1.89 billion (34,948,975 investor Prince shares) Alwaleed bin Talal (Reporting by Akash Sriram, Sweta Singh, Nivedita Balu and Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila and Shounak Dasgupta)
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