Bagaveev
3D printed rocket engines
Wound down. Y Combinator lists the company (YC W15) as inactive and no activity has been found since. Bagaveev operated in the launch sector of the space industry, was headquartered in United States, was founded in 2013, raised $655K (Seed).
Bagaveev at a glance
| Status | Shut downchecked July 2026Wound down. Y Combinator lists the company (YC W15) as inactive and no activity has been found since. |
|---|---|
| Sector | Launch |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Stage | Seed |
| Disclosed funding | $655K |
| Team size | 1-10 |
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Timeline & funding
- 2020Company
- January 2015Funding
Mission
A launch effort aimed at flying nanosatellites weekly, with a two-person reusable rocket as a later goal.
The Bagaveev Corporation tried to build an orbital rocket on less than a million dollars. Nadir Bagaveyev, a US Army veteran turned propulsion engineer, founded it in 2013 to launch 10 to 12 kilogram nanosatellites on a small two-stage vehicle powered by 3D-printed aerospike engines, and took it through Y Combinator in 2015.
The engines were real, static-fired in the Mojave Desert. The rocket never was. An orbital launch promised for 2019 did not happen, and the company went quiet around 2020 without announcing a shutdown; industry trackers list it as out of business, and no outlet covered the end.
3D printing and aerospike nozzles make engines cheaper, but not a hundred times cheaper, and a hundred times was roughly the gap between what the company raised and what orbital programs cost.
Team
- Nadir Bagaveyev · Founder
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