# Stoke Space: space company profile

> Stoke Space: Stoke Space is developing the fully reusable Nova rocket with an actively cooled second-stage heat shield, backed by an $860 million Series D round.

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- Data as of: profile last verified 2026-09-04
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## Profile facts

- Name: Stoke Space (legal name Stoke Space Technologies, Inc.)
- What it does: Stoke Space is developing the fully reusable Nova rocket with an actively cooled second-stage heat shield, backed by an $860 million Series D round. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: launch
- Headquarters: Kent, Washington, US
- Founded: 2019
- Chief executive: Andy Lapsa
- Status: active
- Ownership: private
- Publicly traded: no
- Website: [https://www.stokespace.com](https://www.stokespace.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-09-04

## Funding

- Raised privately: $1.34B (7 private rounds on record (1 with no stated amount, counted but not added). Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)
- Last Round: Series E (Sep 2026)

| Date | Round | Amount (USD) | Lead investor | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-08 | Series E | undisclosed | Point72 Ventures / Spark Capital | [GeekWire Space](https://www.geekwire.com/2026/stoke-space-billion-upsize-nova-rocket/) |
| 2026-02-10 | Series D Extension | $350.0M | - | [Business Wire](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260210581633/en/) |
| 2025-10-09 | Series D | $510.0M | US Innovative Technology Fund | [Aviation Week](https://aviationweek.com/space/commercial-space/stoke-space-raises-510-million-series-d-round) |
| 2025-01-15 | Series C | $260.0M | - | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1861415/000186141525000002/0001861415-25-000002-index.htm) |
| 2023-10-05 | Series B | $146.0M | Industrious Ventures | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1861415/000186141525000001/0001861415-25-000001-index.htm) |
| 2021-12-15 | Series A | $65.0M | Breakthrough Energy Ventures | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1861415/000186141521000002/0001861415-21-000002-index.htm) |
| 2021-02-25 | Seed | $9.1M | NFX; MaC Ventures | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1861415/000186141521000001/0001861415-21-000001-index.htm) |

- Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security.

## Space Score

- Score 585 of 1000, tier Emerging.
- Rank =28 of 94 ranked companies (shared with 1 other company on the same total) (likely between 9 and 51 given the pillars we have not measured).
- 4 of 8 inputs measured, medium confidence, 63% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-20 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (38% of this total): not measured; counted at the roster median, 45; not measured: Headcount, Market value, Reported revenue
- Government space demand (25% of this total): 89 of 100
- Capital access (19% of this total): 99 of 100
- Momentum (19% of this total): 5 of 100; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (20% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=stoke-space#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
- The Space Score ranks companies relative to each other on public data we hold. It describes; it does not rate, forecast or recommend. It is not a credit rating and not investment advice.

## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-03-28 | DoD | NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH (NSSL) PHASE 3 LANE 1 LAUNCH SERVICES PROCUREMENT | $5.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881125FB006_9700_FA881125DB006_9700) |
| 2025-03-14 | DoD | STOKE SPACE OSP-4 QUINTESSENTIAL STUDIES TASK ORDER NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS): 481212 | $482K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881825FB006_9700_FA881824DB005_9700) |
| 2024-07-03 | DoD | LAUNCH SERVICE USER GUIDE (LSUG) MINIMUM AWARD TASK ORDER | $50K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881824FB025_9700_FA881824DB005_9700) |
| 2020-08-03 | NASA | ADVANCED ROCKET NOZZLE FOR PLANETARY LANDERS AND REUSABLE SPACE VEHICLES | $125K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80NSSC20C0674_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |

## Operations

- Open roles on the SpaceNexus jobs board: 72

## Sources

- [SpaceNexus company database](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles): profile facts, with the verification date above
- Each funding round's cited source: SEC filings, company announcements and press reports, linked per round
- Federal award records: contract awards

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