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Firehawk Aerospace

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Firehawk Aerospace

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Building rocket engines for defense, specifically solid rocket motors with 3D printed propellant. observed

fresh · evidence 9d ago 7 sources no confidence data
59/100
Venture signal
scored above 45% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
no round
2026-09-11
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
not checked
homepage

Traction

No traction data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Current round

No fundraising data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_recency (23% of the score).

↓ Scored on 2 of 5 components — funding_magnitude, developer, hiring had no computable metric.

4 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

Evaluation

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Platform score derived
59/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
8/100
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VIX signals 4 hard signals across 2 sources ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
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Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
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Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 59/100 for firehawk-aerospace, composed from 2 of 5 components (defense formula), discounted ×0.82 for 40% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.25 0.9072 0.2268
contract_traction 0.15 0.4081 0.0612

Evidence this score rests on

  • funding.round.announced_on 2026-09-20 https
  • federal.contract.obligations_usd 2026-09-28 calc

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
Undisclosed
announced 2026-09-11 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-09-11
Money moved on or after
2026-09-11
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-09-11 by its own source.

Federal contracts USAspending · public record

Realized federal award records for this company — a verifiable, dollar-denominated government signal. Recipient name matched with high confidence; figures are per-award totals from USAspending.gov.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.01

Gray-market attention, not quality. 2+ HN mentions (peak 3 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. ▲ 3 Firehawk Aerospace aims to revolutionize rocketry w cost-effective hybrid engine 2020-09-14 ↗

Raw observations 177 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Firehawk Aerospace observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-20 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 3 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-20 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 2 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-20 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-20 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24473824", "title": "Firehawk Aerospace aims to revolutionize rocketry w cost-effective hybrid engine", "points": 3, "created_at": "2020-09-14"} observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-14 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24473824", "title": "Firehawk Aerospace aims to revolutionize rocketry w cost-effective hybrid engine", "points": 3, "created_at": "2020-09-14"} observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-14 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24473824", "title": "Firehawk Aerospace aims to revolutionize rocketry w cost-effective hybrid engine", "points": 3, "created_at": "2020-09-14"} observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-14 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24473824", "title": "Firehawk Aerospace aims to revolutionize rocketry w cost-effective hybrid engine", "points": 3, "created_at": "2020-09-14"} observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-14 normalized 0.20
description Building rocket engines for defense, specifically solid rocket motors with 3D printed propellant. observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-20 normalized 0.60
federal.contract.obligations_usd 16756568 derived calc 2026-09-28 normalized 0.60
funding.round.announced_on 2026-09-11 observed https 2026-09-20 normalized 0.80
funding.round.source_url https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/1789-capital-backed-firehawk-seeks-funds-at-1-25-billion-value observed https 2026-09-20 normalized 0.80
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