# Mercedes-Benz USA

> Mercedes-Benz USA is a VC fund in Atlanta backing Automotive and Software. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercedes-benz-usa/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mercedesbenz
- Website: http://www.mercedes-benz.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MercedesBenz

Mercedes-Benz USA is an automotive company that specializes in the fields of manufacturing and distribution of cars. It also focuses on the fields of sales, marketing and distribution, and automotive. Mercedes-Benz was founded in 1926 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 4 | 44% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 22% |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 2 | 22% |
| Energy | 1 | 11% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 33% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 44% |
| Germany | 2 | 22% |
| China | 1 | 11% |
| Sweden | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jon Bueno Mendieta | Engineering – Automation and Controls | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-bueno-mendieta |
| Lennart Müeller-Teut | Head of Marketing Communications | 0 | — |
| Marcus Breitschwerdt | CEO | 0 | — |
| Paul Gao | Chief Strategy Officer | 0 | — |
| Toto Wolff | Head of Project Development | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Mobility House | Their approach within the world of smart energy is to realize e-mobility - by emphasizing on individual mobility and fuelled by energy from regenerative resources. Companies and individuals can easily enter the electric mobility area - in a safe, sustainable and affordable way, thereby walking away from fossil fuel consuming solutions from thepast.Ever since 2009 The Mobility House has become one of Europe’s leading providers for electric mobility.Within the fast-growing market environment they specialize on charging solutions and managing the battery pack for energy storage. They stand for an international access to e-mobility – which is safe and customer-oriented. The quality of their products combined with reasonable prices and optimum customer service, ensure satisfaction of their customers and their business partner.Operating b2b with the automotive industry, leasing services and energy utilities, and b2c with EV customers: Fulfilling the customers´ needs is their benchmark for competition within the market. | $49.8M | Series C | Nov 03, 2022 | http://mobilityhouse.com/ |
| Aston Martin | 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. | $781.5M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 18, 2022 | http://www.astonmartin.com |
| Factorial Energy | Factorial Energy ("Factorial") has pioneered a new solid-state electrolyte material battery technology, FEST™ (Factorial Electrolyte System Technology™). Factorial will bring a more powerful battery product with longer range and higher degree of safety to the global electric vehicle (EV) market. | $200M | Series D | Jan 20, 2022 | http://www.factorialenergy.com |
| Luminar | Luminar is an autonomous vehicle sensor and software company with the vision to make autonomy safe and ubiquitous by delivering the only lidar and associated software that meets the industry’s stringent performance, safety, and economic requirements. Luminar has rapidly gained over 50 industry partners, including 8 of the top 10 global automotiveOEMs. In 2020, Luminar signed the industry’s first production deal for autonomous consumer vehicles with Volvo Cars, while also recently striking deals with Daimler Truck AG and Intel’s Mobileye. Luminar has also received minority investments from the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, Daimler Truck AG, and Volvo Cars, a global leader in automotive safety, to accelerate the introduction of autonomous trucks and cars at highway speed. Founded in 2012, Luminar is a nearly 400-person team with offices in Palo Alto, Orlando, Colorado Springs, Detroit, and Munich. | $20.2M | Post-IPO Equity | Jan 20, 2022 | https://www.luminartech.com/ |
| RepairSmith | RepairSmith delivers car repair and maintenance services with convenient options for car owners. Its services allow car owners to get their repair delivered to their driveway or drop it off with an upfront price, online booking, after-hours support, and a full warranty. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in El Segundo,California. | $42M | Series B | Aug 19, 2021 | https://www.repairsmith.com/ |
| Stegra | 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 | https://www.h2greensteel.com/ |
| Momenta | 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 | https://www.momenta.cn |
| ryd | ryd is a cross-brand solution for mobile payments directly at the gas pump. ThinxNet GmbH, a Munich-based IoT / FinTech start-up, created the company. Founded in 2014, |  | Series C | Jan 31, 2020 | https://de.ryd.one/ryd-pay/ |
| Fair | Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 20, 2017 | https://www.fair.com/ |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mercedes-Benz Group AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercedes-benz-group-ag) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Mercedes-Benz Group AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daimler) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Stellantis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellantis) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alliance Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliance-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Altor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altor-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BMW i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bmw-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Mercedes-Benz USA invest in?

Mercedes-Benz USA invests primarily in Automotive, Software and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series C and Post-IPO Equity stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Mercedes-Benz USA?

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### Who are the partners at Mercedes-Benz USA?

The team at Mercedes-Benz USA includes Jon Bueno Mendieta (Engineering – Automation and Controls), Lennart Müeller-Teut (Head of Marketing Communications) and Marcus Breitschwerdt (CEO), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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