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Marble Imaging , the Earth Observation Data & Insights company, led by Robert Hook, Dr. Gopika Suresh, and Alexander Epp, has secured  a €5.3 million seed round led by HTGF. In addition, Marble has attracted a strong group of further investors who share the mission, including BAB Beteiligungs- und Management-gesellschaft Bremen mbH (BBM) , Lightfield Equity,  Oslo Venture Company ,  nwk | nwu Beteiligungsgesellschaften der Sparkasse Bremen ,  Sentris Capital ,  Auxxo Female C

Black Forest Labs , building state-of-the-art technology that advances how the world is seen and understood, led by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Sumith Kulal, Axel Sauer, Patrick Esser, and Tim Dockhorn, has announced Series B funding of $300M at a $3.25B post-money valuation from a16z , NVIDIA , Northzone , Creandum , Earlybird VC , BroadLight Capital , and General Catalyst , and welcoming Salesforce Ventures  and Anjney Midha (AMP), as co-leads, alongside Temasek , Bai

6 Degrees Capital , an early-stage investor backing companies at Seed & Series A, with substantial follow-on capital available for later rounds, led by Filip Coen, Maxime Vanderstichele, Lucas Stoops, Wouter Volckaert, Thomas Olszewski, Thibault D'hondt, and others, has closed  a €154 million fund, with the fund backing enterprise software, AI and fintech startups at seed and Series A stages. Fund III marks 6DC’s third fund since its launch in 2023. The vehicle will write ini