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Rocket Lab

Space · Long Beach, United States · Founded 2006 · Public via SPAC 2021

End-to-end launch services and spacecraft system solutions.

Valuation $39B
Revenue $919M
Power Law Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Featured in
News Rocket Lab to buy Iridium for $8B in bid to challenge SpaceX Jun 29, 2026 Market map US Space Startups Jun 25, 2026 Market map US National Security & Defense Market Map

Investors

11 investors on Rocket Lab's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
Mark Rocket
Series A 1 investor entered at this stage
Khosla Ventures
Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage
K1W1
Accident Compensation Corporation
Lockheed Martin Global
DARPA
DCVC
Future Fund
Greenspring Associates
Bessemer Venture Partners
Promus Ventures

Rocket Lab mafia

Startups founded by Rocket Lab alumni

Former Rocket Lab employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

HalterEst. 2016
Craig PiggottNew Zealand
Signal score96
PartlyEst. 2020
Levi FawcettNew Zealand
Signal score92
Rocket Factory AugsburgEst. 2018
Stefan BrieschenkGermany
Signal score90
Dawn AerospaceEst. 2017
Robert WernerNew Zealand
Signal score87
InterluneEst. 2020
IHIndra HornsbyUnited States
Signal score84
The Vydar GroupEst. 2024
Benji MetzNetherlands
Signal score79
KuprionEst. 2016
AKAmir KazmiUnited States
Signal score77
AquilaEst. 2022
Nelson SmithAustralia
Signal score74
Rebel Space TechnologiesEst. 2019
Carrie HernandezUnited States
Signal score62
Aurora InsightEst. 2016
Augustus MooreUnited States
Signal score59

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Global footprint

Where Rocket Lab has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
24 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States54.4%
🇳🇿 New Zealand40.1%
🇨🇦 Canada2.4%
🇦🇺 Australia1.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.4%
Top 5 of 24 shown
Web traffic by country
25K monthly visits
across markets
🇬🇧 United Kingdom32.4%
🇺🇸 United States30.8%
🏳️ Korea9.2%
🏳️ Republic of6.4%
🇨🇦 Canada5.6%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Rocket Lab's talent

Dealroom maps Rocket Lab's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

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Patent intelligence

$30M patent portfolio · 115 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$30M
0.08% of market cap · 2.1× larger than top peer Relativity ($14M)
115 active patent families
Where Rocket Lab innovates Band gapBattery cellElectrical batteryMaterials scienceMechanical engineering

Where Rocket Lab concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Rocket Lab and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Rocket Lab's 7 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Rocket Lab appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

7 deals across Rocket Lab's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Rocket Lab's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        7 of 7 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Rocket Lab

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Rocket Lab on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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