{"id":1019683,"date":"2026-07-09T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019683"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:33:43","slug":"jeff-bezos-blue-origin-seeks-first-outside-funding-at-130-billion-valuation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/09\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-seeks-first-outside-funding-at-130-billion-valuation-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin seeks first outside funding at $130 billion valuation: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin is looking to tap outside investors for the \u200bfirst time, aiming to raise $10 \u200bbillion in a funding round that would value the \u200brocket maker at $130 billion before the investment, according to an NYT DealBook report on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Coatue Management, a big asset manager, is expected to lead the round with a $4 billion commitment, the report \u200csaid, adding \u2060that Bezos \u2060is set to contribute an additional $2 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The report comes as investor appetite for space companies \u200bhas surged following SpaceX&#8217;s IPO last month, which lifted expectations for valuations of privately held \u200baerospace firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin is looking to tap outside investors for the \u200bfirst time, aiming to raise $10 \u200bbillion in a funding round that would value the \u200brocket maker at $130 billion before the investment, according to an NYT DealBook report on Wednesday. Coatue Management, a big asset manager, is expected to lead the round with a $4 billion commitment, the report \u200csaid, adding \u2060that Bezos \u2060is set to contribute an additional $2 billion. The report comes as investor appetite for space companies \u200bhas surged following SpaceX&#8217;s IPO last month, which lifted expectations for valuations of privately held \u200baerospace firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019684,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019683\/revisions\/1019684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}