Monthly roundup · Aerospace & Space · July 2026

Aerospace & Space startup funding, July 2026: Blue Origin's $10B Growth leads 13 rounds

By Millionrounds ResearchPublished 1 August 2026Updated 15 October 2026

We read 13 equity rounds in Aerospace & Space announced in July 2026, raising $12B between them: 6% of all the rounds we read that month and 30% of the money. The largest was Blue Origin's $10B Growth, led by Coatue Asset Management. The median seed round was $12M, against $7.2M over the last twelve months in Aerospace & Space; at Series A it was $115M.

Equity rounds13in Aerospace & Space, 13 with an amount
Raised$12Bacross those rounds
Lead named85%of rounds say who led
Share of the month6%of rounds; 30% of the money

The biggest rounds

  1. 1Blue OriginGrowth · United States · led by Coatue Asset Management$10B
  2. 2Shield AISeries G · United States · led by Advent International, JPMorgan Chase's Strategic Investment Group$1.5B
  3. 3K2 SpaceSeries D · United States · led by Kleiner Perkins, ICONIQ Capital$500M
  4. 4TerraFirmaSeries A · United States$115M
  5. 5Venus AerospaceSeries B · United States · led by Mercury Fund$90M
  6. 6SWISSto12Series C · Switzerland$70M
  7. 7SSenraSeries B · United States · led by Lowercarbon Capital, Interlagos$65M
  8. 8NebexSeed · United States · led by Google Ventures, Eniac Ventures$30M
  9. 9LLegendSpaceSeed · China · led by Fortune Venture Capital, Tsingyuan Ventures$30M
  10. 10ddeltaVisionSeed · Germany · led by KT Ventures, Valemount Capital$12M

Day by day

Equity rounds in Aerospace & Space announced each day of July. The busiest day was 29 July, with 3.

1 July31 July

By stage, against the year

Each stage's median this month beside its twelve-month median: the sector's own where we hold enough rounds for a benchmark, otherwise the one across all sectors.

Pre-seed1$7.3Mthis month$2.0M12 months, all sectors
Seed5$12Mthis month$7.2M12 months here
Series A1$115Mthis month$20M12 months, all sectors
Series B2$78Mthis month$50M12 months, all sectors
Series C1$70Mthis month$100M12 months, all sectors
Series D1$500Mthis month$150M12 months, all sectors
Growth1$10Bthis month$113M12 months, all sectors

Where

United States had the most Aerospace & Space rounds this month.

Against the month

  • Rounds, Aerospace & Space13
  • Rounds, all sectors216
  • Raised, Aerospace & Space$12B
  • Raised, all sectors$41B

The whole of July 2026

Other sectors in July

131 roundsAI→36 roundsFintech→16 roundsClimate Tech→16 roundsEnergy→16 roundsManufacturing→15 roundsHealthcare→15 roundsCybersecurity→15 roundsRobotics→13 roundsSoftware→12 roundsHardware & Electronics→12 roundsConstruction→12 roundsBig Data & Analytics→12 roundsBiotech→