Germany's Marble raises €6 million to build the first commercial high-resolution satellite constellation

German Earth-observation startup Marble Imaging has raised a €6 million seed extension led by Cherry Ventures, bringing its total funding to €11.3 million after a €5.3 million round in December 2025. The Bremen-based company is building Germany's first commercial very-high-resolution satellite constellation, targeting 30 satellites by 2030, with its first craft, Marble Sat-1, fully funded and slated to launch in early 2027 at up to 0.7-meter resolution across visible, near-infrared and shortwave-infrared bands. At scale, the constellation is intended to deliver Earth-observation data as often as once per hour, paired with an AI analytics platform serving defense, climate security, disaster management, energy transition and infrastructure use cases. CEO Robert Hook said Europe's reliance on non-European imagery providers risks coverage cutoffs in scenarios such as Ukraine or the Strait of Hormuz, and the new capital will accelerate constellation expansion and satellite and launch procurement. The raise underscores growing European appetite for sovereign space capability; watch for the Sat-1 launch timeline and early constellation deployment milestones.