# BlackShore
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Dutch downstream Earth observation software company behind Cerberus, a game-based crowdsourcing platform for interpreting satellite and aerial imagery into maps, data labels, and geospatial intelligence products.

## Specifications
- **country**: Netherlands
- **website**: https://www.blackshore.eu/
- **operator domains**: ["blackshore.eu"]
- **founded year**: 2017
- **entity type**: company
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-08
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **attributes**: {"kind":"commercial","country":"Netherlands","website":"https://www.blackshore.eu/","operator_domains":"[\"blackshore.eu\"]","founded_year":2017,"description":"Dutch downstream Earth observation software company behind Cerberus, a game-based crowdsourcing platform for interpreting satellite and aerial imagery into maps, data labels, and geospatial intelligence products."}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
BlackShore B.V. is a Dutch downstream Earth observation software company behind Cerberus, a game-based crowdsourcing platform for interpreting satellite and aerial imagery into maps, AI training labels, and geospatial intelligence products.[^blackshore-about][^esa-cerberus-project] The company has layered heritage: BlackShore B.V. was incorporated in 2017, the Cerberus concept originated in 2011, and ESA lists Blackshore-creative in ESA BIC Noordwijk incubation for 2011-2013.[^transfirm-blackshore][^blackshore-about][^esa-blackshore-startup] Cerberus uses crowd tasks around Earth observation imagery for application areas including forestry, disaster relief, food security, water resilience, agriculture, and community mapping.[^blackshore-about][^esa-cerberus-project] ESA's Cerberus project page records a 24-month project from November 2017 to November 2019 with partners including 52 Impact, Streaming Creativity Game Studios, Rabobank, AWS, SAP Netherlands, AKVO, Earthworm Foundation, Q42, HCSS, and Waterwatch Foundation.[^esa-cerberus-project] Registered-office evidence points to Wageningen, while ESA profiles retain the Noordwijk/SBIC incubation and network context.[^transfirm-blackshore][^esa-blackshore-network]

## Sources
- [esa-blackshore-startup] | ESA Commercialisation Gateway startup profile: Blackshore-creative | https://commercialisation.esa.int/startups/blackshore-creative/ | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-08
- [blackshore-about] | About BlackShore and Cerberus | https://www.blackshore.eu/about | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-06-08
- [esa-cerberus-project] | ESA Space Solutions project: Cerberus | https://business.esa.int/projects/cerberus | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-08 | published=2019-11-26
- [esa-blackshore-network] | ESA Space Solutions business-network profile: BlackShore | https://business.esa.int/business-network/blackshore | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-08
- [transfirm-blackshore] | TransFirm company record: BlackShore B.V. | https://www.transfirm.nl/nl/organisatie/69989303-000038299836-blackshore-b.v.?lang=en | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-08

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