Stoke Space
Launch Services
$813.9Mtotal raised · 11 rounds on record
48open roles
$184kmedian advertised pay
$410Mlatest round · Venture round · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
Overview
Stoke Space is a United States aerospace company developing Nova, a fully and rapidly reusable two-stage launch vehicle intended to cut the cost of access to orbit. Founded in 2019, it designs, builds and tests its engines and vehicle at its facilities in Kent and Moses Lake, Washington, and hires aerospace technicians and launch, software integration and facilities engineers. The company is headquartered in Kent, Washington, United States.
How Stoke Space hires
Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
72 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
30%
Reposted roles
0%
Stoke Space scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 47 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 30% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 72 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$813.9M
11 rounds on record
Latest round
$410M
Venture round · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
56
+11 posted in 30 days
Grants
$2.1M
5 grants · CORDIS
Backers
14
Y Combinator, NFX
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
33/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 27
Took on debt financing $150M · Google News MENA
Apr 16
Board appointment Peter Tague, Director · SEC Form D
Sep 23, 2025
First sales or marketing role Sales Executive - SMB
Sep 23, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $410M · SEC Form D
Jan 23, 2025
Board appointment Steve Angel, Director · SEC Form D
Dec 9, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $183.8M · SEC Form D
Sep 15, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $146M · SEC Form D
Aug 1, 2022
Won a grant $1M · CORDIS
Nov 30, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $65M · SEC Form D
Jul 20, 2021
Won a grant $750k · CORDIS
May 10, 2021
Board appointment Morgan Beller, Director · SEC Form D
Apr 14, 2021
Won a grant $50k · CORDIS
Jan 2021
Went through Y Combinator
Dec 21, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $9.1M · SEC Form D
Aug 3, 2020
Won a grant $125k · CORDIS
Jun 1, 2020
Won a grant $225k · CORDIS
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.34%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
7
best: 38 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt Financing | Oct 2026 | $150M | — | Google News MENA |
| Venture round | Sep 2025 | $410M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Dec 2024 | $183.8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2023 | $146M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Aug 2022 | $1M | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Nov 2021 | $65M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Jul 2021 | $750k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Apr 2021 | $50k | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Dec 2020 | $9.1M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Aug 2020 | $125k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Jun 2020 | $225k | — | CORDIS |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Stoke Space Technologies, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Kelly HennigExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Thomas FeldmanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Andrew LapsaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jennifer LurieExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Timothy BeardExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
NFX 
Florida Funders 
MaC Venture Capital 
Point72 Ventures 
Scribble Ventures 
Silicon Valley Investclub 
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Jobs
$151k – $252k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · Internship · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Kent
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$134k – $200k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Kent
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≈ $63k – $122k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 5+ years exp · Kent
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$129k – $194k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Moses Lake
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$129k – $194k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Canaveral
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$110k – $148k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Kent
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$129k – $194k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Kent
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$151k – $252k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Kent
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$151k – $252k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 8+ years exp · Master's Degree · Kent
Python
C++
MATLAB
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$151k – $252k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Kent
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$110k – $148k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Kent
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$123k – $185k per year · Equity · In office · Nationals only · 2+ years exp · Kent
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$184k
Typical range
$56k – $289k
Open positions
52
52
Jobs
Intern
7.7%
Junior
15.4%
Middle
19.2%
Senior
40.4%
Staff
13.5%
Principal
1.9%
Architect
1.9%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 4 | $56k | $56k – $252k |
| Junior | 8 | $148k | $76k – $185k |
| Middle | 10 | $150k | $128k – $232k |
| Senior | 21 | $194k | $87k – $252k |
| Staff | 7 | $200k | $148k – $289k |
| Principal | 1 | $194k | $194k |
| Architect | 1 | $252k | $252k |
Highest paying role
Software Development Manager, Integrations - Boltline
$289k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Stoke Space
By role, level and city, against the market · 52 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
69/100
Growing
Open positions
56
9 opened / 9 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
135 days
faster than 8% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+5600%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
26% ▲
Field & Service
9% ▲
Aerospace
9% ▲
Backend
7%
Administrative
7%
Early Careers
7% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added SIEM to stack
Oct 2026
Added PowerShell to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Sentinel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Entra ID to stack
Oct 2026
Added Bash to stack
Oct 2026
Added Azure to stack
Oct 2026
Added STK to stack
Oct 2026
Added GMAT to stack
Oct 2026
Added Thermal Desktop to stack
Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-461 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Siemens NX to stack
Oct 2026
Added Femap to stack
Oct 2026
Financials
Total raised
$966.1M
Latest round
Debt Financing
Funding rounds
11
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debt Financing | 2026 | $150M | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $410M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $183.8M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $146M | Details |
| Grant | 2022 | $1M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | $65M | Details |
| Grant | 2021 | $750k | Details |
| Grant | 2021 | $50k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | $9.1M | Details |
| Grant | 2020 | $125k | Details |
| Grant | 2020 | $225k | Details |
People
Kelly Hennig
Executive Officer
Thomas Feldman
Executive Officer, Director
Andrew Lapsa
Executive Officer, Director
Jennifer Lurie
Executive Officer
Timothy Beard
Executive Officer
Christian Garcia
Director
Phil Harris
Director
John Shaw
Director
Matthew White
Director
Hans Koenigsmann
Director
Elizabeth Stein
Director
Peter Tague
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Stoke Space over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
66
Postings analysed
44
Stack modernity
66/100
Languages
Python41%
Rust23%
MATLAB20%
TypeScript16%
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js9%
React.js9%
Svelte7%
Highcharts5%
Databases
PostgreSQL7%
Cloud & platforms
AWS27%
Amazon ECS11%
Kubernetes11%
Linux9%
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Shared investors
Spark CapitalVia a fund
Long Journey VenturesVia a fund
La FamigliaVia a fund
Toyota VenturesVia a fund
Wayfinder VenturesVia a fund
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News
Kent rocket startup Stoke Space lands conditional $150 million Pentagon loan - The Business Journals
Kent rocket startup Stoke Space lands conditional $150 million Pentagon loan The Business Journals
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Report
From Mercury to Nova: Launching the Future at Space Launch Complex 14
Seamless mobility to, through, and from space. Nova is built for 100% reusability, from the start.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
Kent
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Kent
United States
HQ
Stoke Space Headquarters
47 open roles 32 posted in 90 days 21% engineering 200-500 est. staff $181k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Aerospace, Backend
Kent
Moses Lake
United States
Plant / site
Moses Lake Test Site
7 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 50-200 est. staff $150k Avg Salary
hires for QA, Backend, Operations
Moses Lake
Cape Canaveral
United States
Plant / site
Cape Canaveral
6 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $144k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Aerospace, Support
Earlier presence
Washington, United States