Marble Imaging has raised €5.3 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round as it works to become Europe’s primary provider of very high-resolution Earth Observation data and analytics. The round, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, exceeded initial targets and adds to more than €10 million in previously secured non-dilutive funding. The company also recently signed its first €3 million anchor contract with the European Space Agency under the Copernicus Contributing Missions program.
The new capital strengthens Marble’s plan to scale operations, accelerate technology development, and advance the build-out of its satellite constellation. The company expects the first satellite to launch in 2026 and aims to deploy up to twenty satellites by the end of 2028. The funding will also support expansion of Marble’s end-to-end data-processing chain, a commercial data portal, and its pipeline of early customers. Marble plans to expand its engineering and product teams, deepen intelligence and maritime tools, enhance trafficability analysis capabilities, and establish a dedicated operations center for its constellation.
The announcement comes following last week’s ESA Ministerial Council 2025 in Bremen, where member states approved a historic €22.1 billion budget for the next three years. Germany increased its contribution to more than €5 billion, making it the most prominent national backer of ESA’s programs. The company’s leadership noted that this momentum highlights Europe’s heightened interest in sovereign space capabilities, particularly in domains where timely, very high-resolution data and AI-powered analytics are increasingly essential for climate modeling, security, crisis response, mobility management, and infrastructure oversight.
The seed round also attracted a broad group of European investors, including BAB Beteiligungs- und Management-gesellschaft Bremen, Lightfield Equity, Oslo Venture Company, nwk | nwu Beteiligungsgesellschaften der Sparkasse Bremen, Sentris Capital, Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund, and SpaceFounders. Marble’s founders, Robert Hook, Dr. Gopika Suresh, and Alexander Epp, emphasized that the oversubscribed round reflects sustained demand for European high-resolution data sources as global customers prepare for the shift toward more autonomous, real-time Earth Observation systems.
Marble previously secured funding through the DLR Small Satellite Payload Competition and ESA InCubed, enabling substantial progress toward the development and launch of its first satellite. With strong interest from institutional and venture investors, the company is now preparing a Series A round to accelerate constellation deployment after demand for the seed round exceeded available allocation.
Founded in 2023 in Bremen, Marble Imaging focuses on delivering up to hourly multispectral data and advanced analytics for defense, climate security, energy transitions, disaster response, mobility planning, and a wide range of time-critical applications. Its current tools include object detection, terrain and trafficability analytics, coastal asset monitoring, and land classification, all designed to support rapid operational decision-making across government and commercial sectors.
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“Marble Imaging is addressing a critical European capability gap in the very-high resolution domain and I do not see any other company tackling it faster than Marble does. The need for independent, timely and VHR optical data will only increase in the coming years and I’m happy to support the founders building a European star for a global market.”
Koen Geurts, Senior Investment Manager, High-Tech Gründerfonds
“We’re very happy to welcome a strong European investor consortium that will help drive the growth of our dual-use Earth Observation solutions. With this round, we can speed up the enhancement of our capabilities to keep pace with rapidly rising demand.”
Robert Hook, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Marble Imaging
