Bremen Earth observation startup Marble Imaging closes oversubscribed €5.3M seed round
What's the deal? Marble Imaging, a Bremen company building a constellation of very-high-resolution Earth observation satellites, has closed an oversubscribed €5.3 million seed round with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). BAB Beteiligungs- und Managementgesellschaft Bremen (BBM), Lightfield Equity, Oslo Venture Company, the Sparkasse Bremen investment arms nwk | nwu, Sentris Capital, the Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund and SpaceFounders also took part.
Context Marble was founded in 2023 by Robert Hook, Dr Gopika Suresh, Alexander Epp and Dr Raul Scarlat. It aims to deliver up to hourly multispectral imagery and analytics for defence, crisis management, infrastructure and energy. The round follows more than €10 million in non-dilutive funding and a first €3 million anchor contract under ESA's Copernicus Contributing Missions programme. The company will use the money to grow its development team, build its data-processing chain and set up an operations centre. Its first satellite is scheduled to launch in Q4 2026, with up to 20 planned by the end of 2028.
