Top Aerospace Deals (2026)
Blue Origin, Shield AI and Quantum Systems lead the 10 biggest aerospace and space funding rounds of the past year, from $10B down to $348M.
Published October 13, 2026 by Jacob Klionsky
- 01$10BEquity
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's space company, raised $10 billion in its first outside financing at a $140 billion valuation, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, with Coatue Management anchoring the round and Bezos contributing $2 billion.
- 02$1.5BSeries G
Shield AI, a venture-backed deep-tech defense autonomy company, raised $1.5 billion in Series G and $500 million in fixed-return preferred equity (total $2.0 billion) at a $12.7 billion post-money valuation led by Advent International and co-led by JPMorganChase’s Strategic Investment Group, with participation from Snowpoint Ventures, Innovation X Advisors, Riot Ventures, Disruptive, Apandion, and funds managed by Blackstone.
- 03$1.2BSeries D
Quantum Systems, a vertical-takeoff drone maker, raised a $1.2 billion Series D at an $8 billion valuation co-led by Blackstone, Neotus, Airbus, and Advent.
- 04$1BSeries E
Stoke Space, a rocket startup, raised $1 billion in a Series E led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital.
- 05$600MSeries D
True Anomaly, a space defense company, raised $650M in a Series D, including $50M in debt from Stifel Bank, co-led by Eclipse and Riot Ventures with participation from Paradigm, Atreides, G Squared, VanEck, Accel, Menlo Ventures and others.
- 06$550MSeries C
Defense-tech space company Sierra Space raised a $550 million Series C equity round led by LuminArx Capital Management with participation from existing investors including General Atlantic, Coatue, Moore Strategic Ventures, and Andalusian Private Capital.
- 07$519.9MSeries F
ICEYE, a Finnish spacetech company, raised €450M in a Series F at a valuation of over €10B led by General Atlantic, with participation from Nokia, Qatar Investment Authority, TCV, Solidium, Tesi, Varma, Ilmarinen and Lifeline Ventures.
- 08$500MSeries D
K2 Space, the leading manufacturer of big, high-power satellites, raised $500 million in a Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ with participation from CapitalG, Lightspeed, Altimeter, Spark Capital, Sands Capital, ARK Invest and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
- 09$450MSeries C
The Exploration Company, a European space company developing reusable spacecraft and propulsion systems, raised $450M Series C co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Atomico and the Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by EQT) with participation from Balderton, Plural, Cherry and Red River West.
- 10$347.9MEquity
Open Cosmos, a European satellite manufacturing and data services company, raised €300 million in new funding led by Lightrock with participation from ETF Partners, A&G Global Investors, Trill Impact, Santander Alternative Investments, Claret Capital Partners, Entrepreneurs First, Institut Català de Finances, Phoenix Court, the UK’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund, Convex Group and two unnamed pension funds.
