LiveEO has received public funding through the GRW programme, administered by Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) on behalf of the Federal Government and the State of Berlin, backing the next phase of development of Twinspector, the world’s first satellite constellation purpose-built for critical infrastructure monitoring.
Following its recent award from ESA’s InCubed programme, LiveEO has secured an additional €6.6 million in public funding through the GRW (Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur“) programme. The funding advances the development of Twinspector and reinforces Europe’s capacity for independent, sovereign access to very high-resolution Earth observation data, a capability that is growing in strategic importance as infrastructure operators and governments across Europe face mounting pressure from climate change, aging assets, and geopolitical risk.
This latest milestone follows a series of recent funding announcements that underscore the momentum behind Twinspector: the announcement of the constellation earlier this year, ESA InCubed backing, and now GRW support from the Federal Government and the State of Berlin. Together, they reflect a shared conviction that Europe needs its own, independent infrastructure for geospatial intelligence, and that LiveEO is well-placed to build it.
Twinspector: Europe’s Answer to the Growing Demand for Sovereign Geospatial Data
Twinspector is the first satellite constellation purpose-designed for the operational needs of infrastructure monitoring, a gap that existing, general-purpose Earth observation systems have consistently failed to fill. Already backed by ESA’s InCubed programme and developed with a consortium of strong European industrial partners — Reflex Aerospace, Kampf Telescope Optics, and Engineering Minds Munich — Twinspector represents a genuinely European capability: conceived, built, and operated on European terms.
Beyond its commercial applications in utilities, railways, and pipeline monitoring, Twinspector’s data will serve a growing set of use cases where sovereign, independent access to high-resolution Earth observation data is not merely useful, but strategically essential. As geopolitical pressures intensify across the continent, the ability to observe, analyse, and act on critical infrastructure data without dependence on non-European providers is becoming a cornerstone of European resilience.
"Twinspector is being built to meet a real and growing need: infrastructure operators around the world require reliable, precise, and timely data that existing satellite systems were not designed to deliver,” says Daniel Seidel, Co-Founder of LiveEO. “This funding is a strong validation of that mission, and it brings us a decisive step closer to making independent, European-owned Earth observation data a reality at scale."
Strengthening Europe’s Technological Independence
Access to independent, high-resolution satellite data is increasingly a matter of strategic importance across Europe. In many cases, the availability of such data has historically depended on the goodwill of other states, a vulnerability that is no longer acceptable in the current geopolitical environment. Commercially operated, European-owned capabilities are therefore becoming an essential building block of technological sovereignty: for infrastructure operators, for governments, and for the reliable verification of information in crisis regions.
Twinspector is designed to close that gap. Its data will feed directly into LiveEO’s existing analytics products, including Treeline and SurfaceScout, already used by major infrastructure operators such as DB InfraGO AG and E.ON SE across Europe and beyond. The GRW funding ensures this capability continues to be developed and anchored in Germany, strengthening the Berlin-Brandenburg region as a hub for strategic space and deep tech innovation.
"Germany has the talent, the partners, and now the institutional backing to lead in commercial space. With Twinspector, we are not building a satellite for technology’s sake, we are building the data infrastructure that Europe’s critical systems depend on,” says Sven Przywarra, Co-Founder of LiveEO. “Every funding milestone brings us closer to the moment when that infrastructure is operational and in the hands of the customers who need it most."
GRW Programme Supporting Regional Innovation
The GRW programme's decision to back Twinspector reflects the strategic fit between LiveEO's mission and the programme's core objectives: anchoring globally relevant innovation in Germany, creating high-quality jobs, and supporting technologies with broad economic and societal impact.
For the Berlin-Brandenburg region, Twinspector represents exactly the kind of deep tech capability the programme was designed to nurture, a purpose-built satellite constellation, conceived and built entirely in Germany, with applications that extend from commercial infrastructure monitoring to European strategic resilience.
About LiveEO
LiveEO is a technology company based in Berlin that provides AI- and satellite-powered solutions for monitoring critical infrastructure and supply chains. Its products help organisations reduce risk, improve resilience, and meet regulatory requirements by transforming Earth Observation data into actionable intelligence. LiveEO supports customers across the energy, transportation, and commodity sectors worldwide, enabling proactive risk management and more secure, sustainable operations.
About GRW
The GRW (Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur“) is a joint federal and state programme that supports investment, innovation, and the creation of high-quality jobs in German regions. By co-funding companies developing technologies with broad economic and societal relevance, the programme plays an important role in strengthening Germany as a location for innovation and in anchoring strategic capabilities within the country. In Berlin, the programme is administered by IBB (Investitionsbank Berlin) on behalf of the Berlin Senate.
