Mercedes-Benz Group AG
VC Fund
Stuttgart, Germany
Mercedes-Benz Group AG is a VC fund in Stuttgart focused on Automotive and Manufacturing. The Mercedes-Benz Group AG (former Daimler AG) is one of the world's most successful automotive companies. With Mercedes-Benz AG, we are one of the leading global suppliers of high-end passenger cars and premium vans. Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG offers financing, leasing, car subscription and car rental, fleet management, digital services forcharging and payment, insurance brokerage, as well as innovative mobility services.The company founders, Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, made history by inventing the automobile in 1886. As a pioneer of automotive engineering, Mercedes-Benz sees shaping the future of mobility in a safe and sustainable way as both a motivation and obligation. The company's focus therefore remains on innovative and green technologies as well as on safe and superior vehicles that both captivate and inspire.Mercedes-Benz continues to invest systematically in the development of efficient powertrains and sets the course for an all-electric future: Mercedes-Benz Cars intends to go all-electric by the end of this decade wherever market conditions allow. Mercedes-Benz Vans targets an EV share of more than 50% by 2023. Shifting from electric-first to electric-only, the company is accelerating toward a fully electric and software-driven future. The company's efforts are also focused on the intelligent connectivity of its vehicles, autonomous driving and new mobility concepts as Mercedes-Benz regards it as its aspiration and obligation to live up to its responsibility to society and the environment.Mercedes-Benz sells its vehicles and services in nearly every country of the world and has production facilities in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Africa.
- Total investments:
- 58
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
Last updated:
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Industries Mercedes-Benz Group AG invests in
Stages Mercedes-Benz Group AG invests in
Countries Mercedes-Benz Group AG invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series B
- $2.5M–$46M
- Series C
- $10M–$500M
- Corporate Round
- $1.5M–$480M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Automotive 13 (22%)
- Manufacturing 11 (19%)
- Transportation 10 (17%)
- Logistics 7 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (10%)
Stage
- Corporate Round 11 (19%)
- Series C 7 (12%)
- Series B 6 (10%)
- Funding Round 6 (10%)
- Seed 5 (9%)
Country
- United States 18 (31%)
- Germany 10 (17%)
- United Kingdom 4 (7%)
- China 2 (3%)
- Israel 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Axel Harries
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Bernd Pischetsrieder
Member of the Supervisory Board
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Member of the Supervisory Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Elke Tönjes- Werner
Deputy Chairwoman of the Works Council
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Deputy Chairwoman of the Works Council | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jürgen Langer
Supervisory Board
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Supervisory Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Manfred Bischoff
Supervisory Board
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Supervisory Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Blaize
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Blaize, formerly Thinci, is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets.It was created to meet growing consumer demands for new interactive products. The company innovates and patents a set of remarkable new technologies that bring unheard-of Vision Processing to alltypes of consumer devices. Next-generation products require 10x-100x more performance and longer battery life - and Blaize is poised to meet those needs. These innovations will delight end-users around the world, and significantly benefit those companies that embrace Blaize's game-changing advancements.Blaize was founded as Thinci in 2010 and is based in El Dorado Hills, California. | $106M / Series D / Apr 29, 2024 | |
Aston Martin
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Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings manufacture luxury sports cars and grand tourers independently. Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford founded it in 1913. Steered from 1947 by David Brown, it became associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional character James Bond following his use of a DB5 model in the1964 film Goldfinger. People regard their sports cars as a British cultural icon. Aston Martin has held a Royal Warrant as purveyor of motorcars to the Prince of Wales since 1982. It has over 150 car dealerships in over 50 countries on six continents, making them a global automobile brand. Investors trade the company at the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It received the Queen's Award for Enterprise for outstanding contribution to international trade in 2003. | $279.4M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 26, 2023 | |
VfB Stuttgart
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VfB Stuttgart provides various types of management consulting services to their clients. | Corporate Round / Jun 01, 2023 | |
ProLogium Technology
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ProLogium is a Lithium battery cell maker the worldwide first ultra-thin, bendable/flexible, high capacity solid-state Lithium battery | $111.5M / Private Equity / Jan 27, 2022 | |
Stegra
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H2 Green Steel helps to build a large-scale steel factory based on a fossil-free manufacturing process targeting large European OEMs.The plant will be built in northern Sweden, in Boden, offering unique conditions for cost-competitive fossil-free steel production. The project includes a giga-scale green hydrogen plant as an integrated part of thesteel production facility. Production will begin in 2024 and by 2030, H2GS will have an annual production capacity of five million tons of high-quality steel. | $105M / Series A / May 24, 2021 | |
Blacklane
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Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $26M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 24, 2021 | |
Momenta
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Momenta is an autonomous driving startup operating out of Beijing. Its deep-learning-based software in perception, HD semantic mapping, and data-driven path planning enables the realization of full autonomy. Momenta offer multi-level autonomous driving solutions as well as big data products and services.Momenta’s team is composed of experts incomputer vision and deep learning, including one of the authors of Faster R-CNN and ResNet, the most popular deep learning network, as well as winners of ImageNet 2015, MS COCO Challenge 2015, and ImageNet 2017. The company is leading the autonomous driving software space with advanced technical competence and a strong commitment to innovation. | $500M / Series C / Mar 19, 2021 | |
Volocopter
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Volocopter is an urban air mobility service provider that develops battery-powered electric air taxis.It offers a holistic approach to the UAM market by developing a full ecosystem to connect all the vital parts to get the industry off the ground. This includes multipurpose aircraft (VoloCity and VoloDrone), physical and digital infrastructure(VoloPort and VoloIQ), as well as partnerships with global leaders in their respective fields. With VoloCity, the company is developing the fully electric vertical take-off and landing “eVTOL” aircraft in certification to transport passengers safely and quietly within cities. Volocopter leads and cooperates with partners in infrastructure, operations, and air traffic management to build the ecosystem necessary to ‘Bring Urban Air Mobility to Life’.Co-founders Stephan Wolf and Alexander Zosel established the company in Bruchsal, Baden-Wurttemberg in 2011. | $242.1M / Series D / Mar 03, 2021 | |
Farasis Energy
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Farasis Energy develops and manufactures advanced lithium ion battery energy storage systems for the emerging transportation, grid, and commercial markets.Its products can be applied in a range of markets, including transportation, electric grid, and commercial and industrial vehicles. Farasis' mission is to commercialize world leadingbattery systems to enable a revolution in energy efficiency addressing the rapidly changing transportation, consumer electronics and power distribution markets. | $480M / Corporate Round / May 26, 2020 | |
Rally
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Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses. With millions of rides completed, Rally is disrupting the mode of transportation that moves more people than any other. Our AI creates new intercity routes for regional transport and our crowdfunding/sourcing marketplace facilitates surge demandfor travel during peak times or mass movements. Rally converts private car users to shared bus riders, unlocking the value of the underutilized assets of the bus industry. While Rally introduces bus travel to many first-time riders, our platform also provides traditional bus charter customers the digital tools to manage their entire journey, from route planning and procurement to marketing automation, payments and customer service. | $4M / Seed / Dec 17, 2019 | |
| See all 58 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Mercedes-Benz Group AG
9 deals together
Bosch
3 deals together
b2venture
3 deals together
Intel Capital
3 deals together
Team Global
3 deals together
Temasek
3 deals together
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FAQ
What does Mercedes-Benz Group AG invest in?
Mercedes-Benz Group AG invests primarily in Automotive, Manufacturing and Transportation startups, most often at Corporate Round and Series C stage. Most of the 58 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Mercedes-Benz Group AG's check size?
Mercedes-Benz Group AG typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$46M at Series B, $10M–$500M at Series C and $1.5M–$480M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mercedes-Benz Group AG participates in.
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Who are the partners at Mercedes-Benz Group AG?
The team at Mercedes-Benz Group AG includes Axel Harries (Vice President), Bernd Pischetsrieder (Member of the Supervisory Board) and Elke Tönjes- Werner (Deputy Chairwoman of the Works Council), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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