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Stoke Space

Nova: Radically improving access to and from orbit. We’re unlocking the space economy by harnessing the power of full and rapid reusability with Nova, our 100% reusable rocket. Nova offers affordable access to, through, and from space with a 20x reduced cost to orbit. Our reusable upper-stage vehicle delivers on-demand access to any orbit at any time. Its unmatched capabilities enable dynamic space operations, including capture, reposition, long-dwell operations, and return of assets, as well as

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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Nova: Radically improving access to and from orbit. We’re unlocking the space economy by harnessing the power of full and rapid reusability with Nova, our 100% reusable rocket. Nova offers affordable access to, through, and from space with a 20x reduced cost to orbit. Our reusable upper-stage vehicle delivers on-demand access to any orbit at any time. Its unmatched capabilities enable dynamic space operations, including capture, reposition, long-dwell operations, and return of assets, as well as

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Stoke Space is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Novareusable upper-stage vehiclecapture100% reusable rocketrepositionunmatched capabilitieslong-dwell operationsreturn of assetsfull and rapid reusabilitydynamic space operationsspace economy
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Stoke Space

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

re:ORBITAL

match 64

reOrbital is building the world's fastest, most cost effective orbital tech maturation platform. Our flagship product, the TACT-100, is an orbital tech maturation platform designed to fly on reusable upper-stage vehicles throughout launch, in-orbit operations, reentry, and landing.

shared product terms: cost, 100, reusable, upper

Noya

match 64

Noya is radically reducing the upfront capital costs and installation time required to perform direct air capture. We're doing this by retrofitting existing pieces of industrial equipment like cooling towers and turning them into CO2 capture machines.

shared extracted concept terms: capture; shared product terms: radically, reduc, cost, time; shared product theme: context and memory; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Perfekto

match 59

Over 1/3 of food is being thrown away and in Latin America 72% of it prior to the consumer stage. Mainly due to physical imperfections or surplus production, despite being fresh and edible. Perfekto offers a grocery subscription box with imperfect and surplus food, home-delivered. Thereby, consumers save time and money while reducing food waste. The founders are experienced leaders scaling startups & grocery operations. Anahí previously led the Uber Grocery initiative for Latam. Jan scaled Swiss

shared extracted concept terms: operation; shared product terms: stage, offer, deliver, time; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Circular

match 59

Circular is accelerating the adoption of the circular economy by making subscriptions the best way to access and experience tech: from smartphones, laptops, and headphones to gaming, VR and wearables. Our customers get their hands on the best tech through low-cost, convenient subscriptions. They can pay monthly, keep it as long as they want, and if they love it, buy it. If they return it, we carefully refurbish it and pass it on to the next loving owner - radically extending its useful life.

shared extracted concept terms: economy; shared product terms: economy, acces, cost, long; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Solestial

match 52

Solestial is on a mission to deliver cost-effective, reliable and safe solutions to power the new space economy.

shared extracted concept terms: space, economy; shared product terms: deliver, cost, space, economy

Astron Systems

match 50

Astron Systems are developing fully reusable rockets for affordable, responsive, and sustainable space access for small satellites.

shared extracted concept terms: space; shared product terms: reusable, rocket, affordable, space