Bezos Raises $10B for Blue Origin After SpaceX Trillionaire IPO

On July 10, 2026, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin confirmed it is raising $10 billion in its first external funding round at a $130 billion pre-money valuation. Coatue Management is leading with $4 billion while Bezos contributes $2 billion personally from Amazon stock sales. The round follows SpaceX’s June IPO that valued the rival near $2 trillion and briefly made Elon Musk a trillionaire. Despite a May New Glenn launchpad explosion that left the rocket with only a 13% chance of flying by year-end, investors are funding expansion into lunar landers, Blue Ring spacecraft, and satellite networks.