Ahead Of 2026 Launch, Marble Imaging Secures €5.3M for High-Resolution Earth Observation

The funding will support scaling operations and accelerating product and technology development for the company’s upcoming satellite constellation.

The round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and included contributions from BAB Beteiligungs- und Managementgesellschaft Bremen mbH (BBM), Lightfield Equity, Oslo Venture Company, nwk | nwu Beteiligungsgesellschaften der Sparkasse Bremen, Sentris Capital, Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund, and SpaceFounders.

“We’re very happy to welcome a strong European investor consortium that will help drive the growth of our dual-use Earth Observation solutions,” says Robert Hook, CEO of Marble and co-founder. “With this round, we can speed up the enhancement of our capabilities to keep pace with rapidly rising demand.”

European SpaceTech investment in 2025 continues to show strong momentum, with capital flowing steadily into both upstream and downstream satellite infrastructure, providing context for Marble Imaging’s €5.3 million Seed round.

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Across adjacent segments, Spain’s Kreios Space secured €8 million to advance air-breathing propulsion and deploy VLEO satellites, Belgium’s EDGX raised €2.3 million to commercialize onboard AI compute hardware, France’s Skynopy obtained €15 million to expand its global ground-station network, and UK-based Spaceflux raised €6.1 million to scale its satellite-tracking and space situational awareness (SSA) platform. Combined, these deals total roughly €31.4 million, illustrating growing investor interest across Europe’s satellite ecosystem, spanning propulsion, onboard compute, ground infrastructure, and SSA.

A recent EU-Startups analysis of the UK space sector notes that while the startup scene is expanding, the UK still captures a modest share of private SpaceTech investment compared with continental Europe, where France and Germany continue to dominate in sovereign-capability areas.

Meanwhile, the launch of the Space TechEU initiative a €500 million European-wide program designed to bridge early-stage equity funding and bankable growth capital coincides with what appears to be a strong year for private European SpaceTech investment.

Within this landscape, Marble Imaging’s focus on very-high-resolution Earth Observation and downstream analytics adds a complementary layer to a sector attracting capital across the entire value chain.

“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,” says Koen Geurts, Senior Investment Manager at HTGF.

Marble Imaging, founded in 2023 by Robert Hook, Dr. Gopika Suresh, and Alexander Epp, is a big-data Earth Observation (EO) company developing a constellation of very-high-resolution (VHR) satellites to deliver up to hourly EO data and analytics for time-critical insights.

The company’s EO data and analytics support rapid decision-making across defense, climate security, disaster management, sustainable energy, infrastructure, and mobility. Marble already offers advanced services such as object detection for situational intelligence, terrain analytics, trafficability assessments, coastal asset monitoring, and land cover classification.

The recently closed €5.3 million Seed round will help scale the development team, accelerate the completion of intelligence, maritime, and trafficability tools, and expand Marble’s end-to-end data-processing chain and customer portal. The funding follows more than €10 million in non-dilutive support and Marble’s first anchor contract under the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Copernicus Contributing Missions programme, valued at €3 million.

Marble’s growth aligns with ESA’s 2025 Ministerial Council outcomes, which committed €22.1 billion over three years the agency’s largest budget to date with Germany increasing its contribution to over €5 billion.

The first Marble satellite, providing very-high-resolution multispectral data, is scheduled for launch in Q4 2026. The company plans to expand its constellation to up to 20 satellites by the end of 2028. Due to the oversubscribed Seed round, not all investors could participate, and Marble is preparing a future Series A round to accelerate its constellation build-out.

About Marble Imaging

Founded in 2023, Marble Imaging is a Bremen-based big-data Earth Observation (EO) company. Building its own constellation of very-high-resolution satellites, Marble delivers daily EO analytics and actionable insights, empowering decision-making across sectors such as defense, climate, disaster management, sustainable energy, infrastructure, and mobility.