About Marple

Earth observation, made useful.

Marple was founded in 2021 by Daniel Lanz, Dr. David Scherf and Santiago Pazos, three colleagues who had worked together for more than ten years on pattern recognition and object detection. Based in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, Marple is independent, financed by its own capital and public programme funding, and focused on projects with real ecological and societal impact.

Founding team

Daniel Lanz

Co-Founder, CEO & Managing Partner

Leads management, project delivery and business development. Responsible for stakeholder engagement and commercial partnerships across all Marple programmes.

Dr. David Scherf

Co-Founder, CPO & Managing Partner

Leads product design, user engagement and commercial viability. Drives the conceptual architecture of Marple’s Earth observation products and makes sure they translate into measurable value.

Santiago Pazos

Co-Founder & CTO

Leads technical feasibility, software development and platform architecture. Responsible for Marple’s data processing pipelines, cloud infrastructure and product engineering.

Who we work with

European Space Agency

Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport

Global Standards (GOTS)

Emblem of the International Labour Organization

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Working on climate, agriculture or cities?

Tell us what you want to see from space, and we’ll show you what the data can do.

Daniel Lanz

Email Daniel +49 (0)2207 9610 551