For more than two decades, Blue Origin had exactly one investor: Jeff Bezos. The Amazon founder funded his rocket company the old-fashioned way, selling Amazon stock in chunks ranging from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars annually. Now, for the first time, he’s letting other people write checks.
Blue Origin is targeting a pre-money valuation of $130 billion in a $10 billion funding round. That figure puts Bezos’s space venture at more than double the market capitalization of Rocket Lab, which has traded between $50B and $62B recently.
Inside the funding round
Coatue Management is leading the charge with a $4 billion commitment, making it one of the largest single investments in a private space company. Bezos himself is kicking in $2 billion. The remaining $4 billion is expected to come from a mix of institutional investors.
The timing is not accidental. SpaceX’s IPO in June 2026 acted like a starting pistol for the entire aerospace investment sector.
