Marble Imaging raises €6M to build a German satellite constellation

Bremen’s Marble Imaging raised an additional €6M led by Cherry Ventures to pay for satellites and launches for a very-high-resolution Earth observation constellation, with its first satellite now planned for early 2027.

Cherry Ventures adds €6M to a seed that now stands at €11.3M

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) announced the additional round on 9 November 2026. Cherry Ventures leads the €6M. It follows the €5.3M seed that HTGF led on 1 December 2025, which takes the seed to €11.3M in total. The HTGF release names no other participants in the new round.

The money funds satellite purchases and launches, a faster ramp-up of the constellation and the AI analytics platform that sits on top of the imagery. Filip Dames, Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures, said in the release, “Europe needs its own eyes in space, and Marble Imaging is building them.” The first launch has slipped from late 2026 to early 2027, but the satellite is paid for and tested. Below, I lay out who the company is, how big the market is, and the date that decides whether this round was well placed.

A Bremen team aiming for 0.7-meter imagery

According to HTGF, Marble Imaging was founded in August 2023 in Bremen. Robert Hook is cofounder and CEO, Dr. Gopika Suresh is cofounder and CTO, Alexander Epp is cofounder and CMO, and Axumawit Berhe is CFO. EU-Startups describes the company as building Germany’s first commercial very-high-resolution satellite constellation.

The satellites target a resolution of up to 0.7 meters in visible and near infrared, with shortwave infrared collection on top. Once the constellation is complete, the company says it can deliver up to one image per hour. Its first satellite, Marble Sat-1, is fully funded and has completed its pre-flight tests, according to the release.

The December 2025 seed brought in HTGF, BAB Bremen, Lightfield Equity, Oslo Venture Company, nwk | nwu, Sentris Capital, the Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund and SpaceFounders. At that point HTGF also reported a €3M anchor contract with ESA under the Copernicus Contributing Missions program and more than €10M in non-dilutive funding from DLR and ESA InCubed. Those figures date from December 2025, and no customer is named in either release.

A US$15 billion Earth observation data market where Europe grows fastest

ABI Research, in research released on 7 August 2025, forecasts Earth observation geospatial data services revenue of about US$15 billion by 2030. It expects Europe to lead the regions with a 20.5% CAGR between 2024 and 2030.

For scale, our own records hold two nearby space rounds. Tumbleweed raised a €6.9M seed in Vienna on 3 November 2026, which is €0.9M more than Marble’s new round. Foundational raised a £8.2M pre-seed for satellite laser ranging on 1 October 2026. Our fundraising data tracks how these space checks stack up over the year.

The constellation grew while the launch date moved

Two HTGF releases eleven months apart show the shift. In December 2025 the plan was a first satellite in the fourth quarter of 2026 and up to 20 satellites by the end of 2028. In November 2026 the first launch is set for early 2027 and the target is 30 satellites by 2030. Nothing is in orbit yet, so every promise in the plan still depends on hardware that has not flown.

The first satellite is paid for and tested, and the company has now raised €11.3M in seed funding. The December 2025 release also said a Series A was in preparation, so the new round reads as a step toward that round.

What to watch before the first hourly image

Imagine if a European civil-security team could order a fresh 0.7-meter image of a port every hour from a constellation built in Bremen. Robert Hook said in the release, “To make better decisions, data access must be immediate and actionable.” The early 2027 launch will show whether the imaging matches the promise.

Keep building, and keep your eyes on Bremen!