Stoke Space vs Boeing
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Kent WA aerospace company developing fully reusable two-stage Nova rocket; $990M total raised with $510M Series D in 2025 from USIT plus Space Force contract competing with SpaceX for medium-lift reusable launch.
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Stoke Space Technologies is a Kent, Washington-based aerospace launch company developing Nova — the first fully reusable two-stage rocket with both a reusable booster (first stage) and a reusable upper stage (second stage) — targeting the medium-lift launch market with a 4,500 kg to LEO payload capacity at economics enabled by full vehicle reuse rather than expendable second stages. Founded by Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman (both Boeing engineers) and backed by Y Combinator (W21) with $990 million total raised including a $510 million Series D in September 2025 led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), a $260 million Series C in January 2025 led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and a US Space Force National Security Space Launch contract award in 2025.
Commercial/defense aircraft maker in deep crisis; $66.5B FY2024 revenue; 2024 Alaska Airlines door blowout + IAM strike + $14B equity raise; new CEO Kelly Ortberg Aug 2024; Airbus gaining market share.
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Boeing is one of the world's two dominant commercial aircraft manufacturers and a major defense and space contractor, founded in 1916 by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington and now headquartered in Arlington, Virginia—relocated from Chicago in 2022. The company trades on NYSE (BA) and reported approximately $66.5 billion in revenues for FY2024 under CEO Kelly Ortberg, who replaced Dave Calhoun in August 2024 amid a deepening quality and manufacturing crisis. Boeing's commercial aircraft division—the 737 MAX, 787 Dreamliner, and 777X—has been plagued by a series of safety, quality, and production crises beginning with the two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 (Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines, killing 346 people), followed by a door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737-9 MAX in January 2024 that triggered renewed FAA production rate restrictions and public confidence damage.
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