German Marble raises €6 million to build first commercial high-resolution satellite constellation

TechFlow news, November 9, according to EU-Startups, German Bremen-based Earth observation company Marble Imaging has closed a €6 million seed extension round led by Cherry Ventures, bringing total funding to €11.3 million; in December 2025, the company had raised €5.3 million led by High-Tech Gründerfonds. The company is building Germany's first commercial very high-resolution (VHR) satellite constellation, aiming to deploy 30 satellites by 2030.

The first satellite, Marble Sat-1, has been fully funded and completed pre-launch testing, with launch planned for early 2027. It will achieve a maximum resolution of 0.7 meters in the visible and near-infrared bands while also collecting shortwave infrared data; once the constellation reaches scale, it can provide Earth observation data as frequently as once per hour. The company is also building an AI analytics platform that turns multi-source data into decision support for defense, climate security, crisis and disaster management, energy transition, and infrastructure and transportation. Current services include target identification, terrain and mobility analysis, coastal asset monitoring, and land cover classification.

CEO and co-founder Robert Hook said Europe and its partners have long relied on high-resolution imagery from non-European suppliers, which “could be cut off in situations such as Ukraine or the Strait of Hormuz”; the new funding will be used to accelerate constellation expansion and satellite and launch procurement. Cherry Ventures founding partner Filip Dames said Europe needs “its own eye in space.” The company was founded in August 2023, and its four founders are Hook, Gopika Suresh, Alexander Epp and Raul Scarlat.

Source: TechFlow