Ibadan, 21 May 2026. – LiveEO has secured €6.6 million in public funding through the GRW program, administered by Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) on behalf of the German 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.
The public funding follows the company’s receipt of a seven-figure funding from the European Space Agency’s InCubed program and the closure of its first series round, raising more than €28 million to fuel the company’s continued expansion across its core civil markets in infrastructure monitoring.
As such, this latest public funding milestone follows recent funding announcements that underscore the momentum behind Twinspector. 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 is the first satellite constellation purpose-designed for the operational needs of infrastructure monitoring, a gap that general-purpose Earth observation systems have consistently failed to fill. Already backed by ESA and developed with a consortium of strong European industrial partners, 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 also serve a growing set of use cases where sovereign, independent access to high-resolution Earth observation data is not merely useful, but strategically essential.
“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.”
Meanwhile, the GRW program’s decision to back Twinspector also reflects the strategic fit between LiveEO’s mission and the program’s core objectives: anchoring globally relevant innovation in Germany, creating high-quality jobs, and supporting technologies with broad economic and societal impact.
