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Overview
American rocket company developing Nova, a fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift launch vehicle. Founded in 2020 by former Blue Origin and Spacex employees Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman. Based in Kent, Washington with 125+ employees.
Total capital raised: USD 990M including USD 260M Series C (Jan 2025), USD 510M Series D (Oct 2025, extended to USD 860M in Feb 2026). U.S. Space Force National Security Space Launch contract. Activating Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral.
Reality check
Nova (company-claimed)
A fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift vehicle meant to fly with aircraft-like frequency.
Government backing (company-claimed)
Technology development funded by U.S. Space Force, DIU, NASA, NSF and other partners.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
First flight (target)
Series D (company-stated, Feb 2026)
Use of funds (company-stated, Feb 2026)
Data & sources
Web sources
4
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Models (1)
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Andy Lapsa CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Andy Lapsacofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Stoke Space.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Stoke Space in third-party press
Peers
56 peers across 1 segment. Every Stoke Space competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
space(56)
36 companies in this segment · low_concentration (HHI 1188.742650389188) · leader K2 Space at 2172%
- Phantom Spacedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Aetherfluxdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Agile Space Industriesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Airbusdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Albedo Spacedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Astrobotic Technologydirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Stoke Space.
People (2)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $860.0M
- Employees
- 500
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (4)
Stoke Space’s 2 disclosed rounds, $165M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series D2026-02-10
Investors: Breakthrough Energy Ventures (follow), U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (lead)
- Series C2025-01-01
Investors: Breakthrough Energy Ventures (follow), Industrious Ventures (follow), Leitmotif (follow), Point72 Ventures (follow), Seven Seven Six (follow), University of Michigan (follow), Woven Capital (follow), Y Combinator (follow), Glade Brook Capital Partners (follow)
- Series B2023-10-05
$100M
Investors: Industrious Ventures (lead), University of Michigan, Point72 Ventures, NFX, MaC Ventures, Toyota Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Long Journey Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Y Combinator
- Series A2021-12-15
$65M
Investors: Breakthrough Energy Ventures (lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Stoke Space’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries D funding round
2026-02-10Series D
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2025-01-01Series C
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (4)
- https://www.stokespace.com/stoke-space-technologies-extends-previously-announced-series-d-financing-to-860-million/
- https://www.stokespace.com/news/stoke-space-technologies-extends-previously-announced-series-d-financing-to-860-million
- https://www.stokespace.com/news/stoke-space-series-b · 2023-10-05
- https://www.geekwire.com/2021/breakthrough-energy-ventures-leads-65m-funding-round-for-stoke-spaces-reusable-rocket-stages/ · 2021-12-15
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-13
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Stoke Space.Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Stoke Space from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
The September 2026 US Venture Capital Funding Report
Crusoe, The Boring Company, Cognition and Stoke Space each raised $1B or more in September. US startups pulled in $27.89B, up 54% from August, and those four rounds alone took…
Stoke Space lines up $150M Pentagon loan for a second launch pad in Florida
The conditional financing would help the Kent, Wash.-based startup build infrastructure for Nova Block 2, a bigger rocket due to debut in 2029. Read More
Rocket fuel: Seattle-area startups raise a record $3.5B as national VC funding cools
Big rounds for Stoke Space, Temporal and Helion pushed Seattle-area venture funding to $3.5 billion in the third quarter, the most in at least a decade, even as U.S. funding fell…
‘I’m not sure we’d make the same decision’: A rocket maker’s reality check for the Seattle region
Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa, whose company is building a fully reusable rocket, told a Seattle audience he isn't sure he'd start the company in Washington state today. Read More
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: The Boring Co., Cognition And Motive Lead A Massive Week
It was a monster week for U.S. startup funding, with four companies each raising $1 billion or more. The Boring Co. led with a $3 billion Series D, followed by AI coding startup…
Stoke Space reveals 15-ton-class reusable rocket Nova Block 2 ahead of its 2027 first flight
Stoke Space is preparing its first orbital launch attempt, and the company has now revealed...
Stoke Space Raises $1B as Startup Approaches First Launch
Stoke Space on Tuesday said it has raised $1 billion in a new funding round that will help support the first launch of its Nova rocket in early 2027 and continued […] The post…
Stoke Space raised $1 billion and is now building a bigger reusable rocket
Startup Funding News Today, September 8, 2026: Mistral AI, Stoke Space, ARC Ride & More
Startup funding is splitting into two very different markets this morning: enormous conviction bets on strategic infrastructure and smaller early-stage rounds built around highly…
Stoke Space raises $1 billion to upsize its reusable rocket
Stoke Space says it has raised roughly $1 billion to get ready for the first launch of its fully reusable Nova rocket — and to scale up the rocket’s design for even bigger…
Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets
Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger rocket for operations.
Stoke Space Raises $1B Initial Series E Round
Stoke Space Technologies announced today that it has closed an initial $1B tranche of a Series E round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $2.3B. The post Stoke Space…
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- Revision history: /companies/stoke-space/history
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Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
Video
We are Stoke Space. From seed money to engine testing, we’ve moved faster than any rocket company in history. We’re building the holy grail of rocketry: A fully and rapidly reusable rocket. Our singular focus on 100% reu
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Space ops are still slow, expensive, and unreliable compared to every other mode of transportation...especially if you consider schedule. Rapid upper stage reus
Stoke Space has raised $100 million dollars in a Series B investment drive. The US Space Force has released a request for proposals for the next phase of nation
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Stoke Space draws attention at the 91st percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $165M raised and recent funding activity. Meaningful press and media coverage across the period.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 6, 2026