Sven Przywarra, Co-CEO of LiveEO, identifies a fundamental paradox: while satellite technology explodes with dozens of new launches monthly, commercial potential remains untapped.

"We have great technical data about every single asset out there and strong demand to understand what's happening. But there's a gap," Przywarra explains during his Berlin presentation.

The €100 Billion Problem

Despite market potential worth hundreds of billions, most satellite companies struggle to generate commercial revenue. Przywarra identifies three barriers:

Raw Data Overload: Operators sell imagery without context. "If you're an industry company, you don't know what to do with the data."

Platform Proliferation: Companies try to "boil the ocean" with horizontal tools instead of solving specific problems.

Project Purgatory: Nearly 1,000 European companies analyze imagery project-by-project—an approach that doesn't scale.

From Data to Action

Since 2018, LiveEO has built technology that acquires data from multiple satellite operators, analyzes it with AI, then delivers actionable business solutions. With 120 employees, they've focused on solving specific problems rather than building another platform.

TreeLine: Preventing Disasters from Space

Their first application addresses a critical challenge: 30% of power outages result from trees falling onto overhead lines, sparking thousands of wildfires including major disasters.

TreeLine tells grid operators precisely where trees threaten networks, analyzing health, species, and growth patterns. The solution serves major operators across North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Proving Horizontal Potential

LiveEO built two additional applications on the same technology:

SurfaceGuard monitors unauthorized construction near pipelines across North America, Nigeria, and Europe, preventing environmental catastrophes.

TradeAware helps companies comply with EU deforestation regulations, serving customers from Bauhaus to coffee resellers to dog food companies.

"I never thought a dog food reseller would buy satellite analytics," Przywarra admits. "That shows the unlimited potential."

Europe's Advantage

From €10 million ARR, LiveEO targets €100 million revenue with these three products. While the Trump administration cuts remote sensing funding, Europe expands its Copernicus program through ESA.

"There's no bigger independent Earth observation analytics company in Europe right now," Przywarra notes. European companies increasingly outperform American counterparts in this space.

Scaling the Vision

Having raised €50 million, LiveEO aims to prove their platform can enable other companies to leverage Earth observation data. Success would establish them as the infrastructure layer for satellite analytics.

"We want to build a global market leader and billion-dollar company," Przywarra concludes.

The trillion-dollar potential is real. The technology exists. European companies like LiveEO are turning space-based insights into ground-level action.

The next time you flip a light switch, remember: satellites might be watching, and European startups are turning that data into protection.