Bezos seeks fresh investment for Blue Origin
July 9, 2026

By Chris Forrester



Jeff Bezos is seeking up to $10 billion (€8.75bn) of fresh external investor cash to inject into his Blue Origin rocket company. The NYT reports that the funding injection would value Blue Origin at well over $130 billion.

The report says that Bezos would himself put in an additional $2 billion while $4 billion would come from Coatue Management, a New York-based asset management business.


However, while no doubt influenced by the success of the Elon Musk/SpaceX recent IPO, Blue Origin trails SpaceX by a wide margin. It is not profitable and, in May, it suffered a rocket explosion during a static firing of a rocket’s engines on its launch pad.

Bezos, as well as Blue Origin has also filed for a new satellite constellation of 51,600 craft (‘Project Sunrise’) and Amazon is also backing its LEO satellite project now with 375 craft in orbit.