TNB Tech Minute: Bezos’ Blue Origin Seeks $10 Billion in Funding Round
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🗓️ 8 July 2026
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| 0:23.6 | Here's your afternoon T&B Tech Minute for Wednesday, July 8th. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:30.3 | Jeff Bezos's space company is raising outside capital for the first time in its history |
| 0:34.5 | as it seeks to fuel its growth. |
| 0:36.7 | A person familiar with the matter says |
| 0:38.4 | Blue Origin is working on a $10 billion funding round valuing the company at $130 billion. Since Bezos |
| 0:45.3 | founded Blue Origin more than 25 years ago, he has invested his own funds into the company instead of |
| 0:50.8 | seeking outside investment. But the company is now racing to ramp up production |
| 0:54.7 | and operations and wants to fly its new Glenn orbital rocket more often. The money raised from |
| 1:00.4 | investors, as well as the launches themselves, are key for helping Blue Origin to better compete with |
| 1:05.2 | Elon Musk's SpaceX. We exclusively report that AI Financial, a payments company backed by the Trump family's |
| 1:12.4 | crypto firm, is in talks to sell its core business. According to a corporate filing, |
| 1:17.8 | AI Financial is in talks with blockchain technology company perpetuals.com. The price being |
| 1:23.1 | discussed is for up to $15 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction and |
| 1:28.2 | company documents. The potential sale would be an abrupt reversal for a company that the Trump |
| 1:33.4 | venture World Liberty Financial called key to its plans when it bought control of the firm a year ago. |
| 1:39.1 | Spokespeople for World Liberty and AI Financial declined to comment. Perpetuals.com says it had signed a non-binding agreement to explore the purchase. |
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