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Rocket Lab
Space · Long Beach, United States · Founded 2006 Decacorn
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.
Craig PiggottNew Zealand
Levi FawcettUnited Kingdom
Stefan BrieschenkGermany
Stefan PowellNew Zealand
Nelson SmithAustralia
Augustus MooreUnited States
Carrie HernandezUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Rocket Lab has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$30M patent portfolio · 111 active families
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.
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.
7 deals across Rocket Lab's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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”.
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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