Marble Imaging raises €6 million for 30-satellite constellation

By Nathan Brooks

Marble Imaging has raised an additional €6 million in a Seed extension, taking disclosed funding to €11.3 million as the Bremen-based big-data Earth-observation company targets 30 very-high-resolution satellites by 2030. Cherry Ventures led the investment.

Marble Imaging said the capital will accelerate satellite and launch procurement for what it calls Germany’s first commercial very-high-resolution satellite constellation. Marble Sat-1, its first satellite, is fully funded, has completed pre-flight testing and is scheduled to launch in early 2027.

Marble Imaging says Marble Sat-1 will capture imagery at up to 0.7-meter spatial resolution in the visible and near-infrared spectrum. The satellite will also gather data in the shortwave infrared spectrum.

The company says it was founded in August 2023 by Robert Hook, Dr. Gopika Suresh, Alexander Epp and Dr. Raul Scarlat. Marble Imaging plans to provide Earth-observation data and analytics as frequently as once an hour for time-critical decisions.

It says those products can support rapid decisions in defense, climate security, crisis and disaster management, green and sustainable energy transitions, infrastructure and mobility. Hook, the co-founder and CEO, put the rationale more directly:

“To make better decisions, data access must be immediate and actionable. Europe and many of its global partners lack this capability today. We at Marble are determined to close this gap, and Cherry’s trust helps us achieve this faster,” Hook said.

The new money follows an oversubscribed €5.3 million Seed round that Marble Imaging announced in December 2025, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds. Marble Imaging put total funding at €11.3 million after the extension.

Marble Imaging already offers object detection for situational intelligence, terrain analysis and trafficability assessment, coastal asset monitoring and land-cover classification. It is also building an AI-powered analytics platform that converts multi-source data into insights.

As the constellation scales, Marble Imaging expects the interaction between its space and software operations to create what it calls a uniquely well-trained AI solution. The company says that system should deliver actionable decision support for defense, civil security and critical infrastructure, among other users.

The company also frames the market around sovereign access to high-resolution imagery. Marble says VHR data is a core input for security and commercial intelligence, yet Europe and many of its partners rely on non-European providers.

Marble Imaging argues that dependence can leave users vulnerable to losing coverage over key areas. It cited Ukraine and the Strait of Hormuz as examples, calling the resulting economic and security knowledge gaps massive.

Cherry Ventures Founding Partner Filip Dames said:

“Europe needs its own eyes in space, and Marble Imaging is building them. They are using AI to turn pixels into answers, exactly what government and defence customers need.

“The team has spent their careers in the industry and knows what it takes to build something very big. The product Marble will deliver doesn’t exist in Europe yet, but we’re convinced it has to,” Dames said.

What does the €6 million change for buyers?

For defense, civil-security and critical-infrastructure buyers, the practical change is more satellite capacity feeding an analytics operation that Marble says already serves paying customers. The constellation also aims to give European users an alternative to non-European imagery providers, with faster access and greater control over continuity and governance.

Hook framed the financing this way:

“Scaling from here is a question of capital, not technology. The demand is proven, the hardware comes from experienced suppliers, and our software is already used by paying customers.

“We need to invest in more satellite capability in space, and this round accelerates our path to delivering sovereign intelligence with a European identity – stable access, transparency and democratic governance that partners around the world can count on,” Hook said.

The financing removes capital as the immediate constraint, according to Hook. The next proof point is execution: whether Marble Sat-1 moves from completed pre-flight testing to its scheduled early-2027 launch. By 2030, Marble Imaging’s 30-satellite goal will test whether its planned hourly data service and sovereign-access proposition work at operating scale.