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Blue Origin

Aerospace company building reusable rockets for orbital, lunar, and tourist spaceflight.
Space 📍 Kent, USA Founded 2000
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Blue Origin going public?
No. Blue Origin is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Blue Origin's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Blue Origin. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Blue Origin filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Blue Origin.
Who are Blue Origin's investors?
Blue Origin's investors include Jeff Bezos (sole funder).
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos's privately funded aerospace company developing reusable rockets (New Shepard, New Glenn), the BE-4 engine, the Blue Moon lunar lander, and the Orbital Reef commercial space station. It has no priced funding rounds — Bezos funds it personally, reportedly selling ~$1B+/yr of Amazon stock — and has never published an official valuation.

Company Profile

CEO
Dave Limp
Founded
2000
HQ
Kent, USA
Employees
~11,000
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Private (Bezos-funded) · 2y 7mo ago
private

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$165.42
Open interest
12
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month+64.9%6-month-26.3%1-year-46.6%All-time+727%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Private (Bezos-funded)—Jan 2024Jeff Bezos—

Vertical Intelligence — Defense / Aerospace

Federal awards
16
prime contracts, last 36 months
Obligated
$436.69M
top: Department of Defense
Largest award
$181.65M
Department of Defense
Latest award
2026-05-26
Largest award: SEE ATTACHMENT 1, PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS) (FA881125FB011)
Name-verified against recipient "BLUE ORIGIN, LLC" on USASpending.gov as of 2026-08-19. Prime awards only — subcontracts and classified work are not visible in the public registry. Verify on USASpending.gov ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
8
via careers page
Product-build share
63%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 63% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month8Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering2Hardware2Marketing2Clinical & Science1Support1
■ product-building   ■ go-to-market / G&A
Engineering Careers[Engineering Careers](https://www.blueorigin.com/careers/aerospace-engineering)Avionics Software EngineersManufacturing EngineersMedical InsuranceCommunication Payload Engineers
Counted from Blue Origin's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Jeff Bezos

Investors

Jeff Bezos (sole funder)

Products

  • New Shepard (suborbital)
  • New Glenn (orbital)
  • BE-3 / BE-4 engines
  • Blue Moon lunar lander
  • Orbital Reef station

Competitors

SpaceX · Rocket Lab · ULA · Sierra Space · Stoke Space
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Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of recent date. Refreshed quarterly.