# Peter Mertens

> Peter Mertens is a pre-seed investor in Kefar Sava backing Software and Automotive. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Kefar Sava, Israel
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-mertens-767572180

Peter Mertens is a pre-seed investor in Kefar Sava focused on Software and Automotive. Peter Mertens

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$4.9M |
| Pre-Seed | $414k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 56% |
| Automotive | 3 | 33% |
| CleanTech | 2 | 22% |
| Electric Vehicle | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 67% |
| Israel | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Leegle | Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2025 |  |
| DeepDrive | Deep Drive primarily develops drives for electric vehicles. | $16.2M | Series A | Mar 21, 2023 |  |
| Leegle | Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform. |  | Seed | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Certivity | Certivity RegTech Software solution makes regulatory management smarter, more transparent, more efficient, and way cheaper. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| DeepDrive | Deep Drive primarily develops drives for electric vehicles. | $4.9M | Seed | Feb 14, 2022 |  |
| Pionix | PIONIX develops EVerest, a fully featured commercial open source SW platform for charging stations. With our open platform, we will provide a broad ecosystem for EV charging that can be easily extended by the open-source community and utilized by any commercial party.PIONIX as main developer of the EVerest ecosystem offers integration andsoftware update services, cloud operations and productivity & security enhancements as subscriptions. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| V-HOLA Labs | VHOLA is an automotive company developing an embedded in-vehicle and electric vehicles power management optimization solution for reducing Electromagnetic radiation in the passenger cabin. The company enabling power management optimization to control the electromagnetic radiation (EMR) levels inside the passenger cabin, taking into considerationlocal regulation aspects, cabin occupancy, passenger preferences, driving conditions, and other factors. VHOLA’s solution provides EMR feedback continuously, measuring and optimizing the EMR throughout the vehicle’s lifetime, and exposing all measurements and corrective actions to the carmaker via the Telecommunication Unit for purposes of on-going improvement and regulation. The company's solution measures the magnetic density from various components of the vehicle’s electric architecture periodically, implements a unique algorithm that results in corrective actions to a radiating ECUs, and that reduces the EMR levels. VHOLA was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 19, 2021 |  |
| Circunomics | Circunomics is the Circular Intelligence Platform for the Battery Economy. We predict when batteries become available for reuse or recycling, assessing their circular value and finding the right buyers and recyclers. We establish scalable digital processes to facilitate millions of batteries into secondary applications and recycling – being 10xmore efficient than current solutions. | $414.4K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2020 |  |
| Next Mobility Labs | As an internationally positioned venture studio, we research tech innovations for sustainable mobility worldwide, participate as co-founders with selected idea providers or as an early-stage investor and scale these start-ups together into profitable companies.Our core services for our investment companies:- Developing the business model indetail - Designing presentations and prototypes - Organising financing rounds - Providing legal support - Creating market communication - Recruiting team members - Supporting with mentoring and strategy consulting - Helping to drive traction and growthOur portfolio currently comprises of for start-ups, all with functioning business models. Circunomics GmbH - digital marketplace for used batteries - exceeded its targets in 2023 and traded batteries with a capacity of 279 megawatt hours. Since its foundation, we have already created considerable value with Next Mobility Labs. | $221.9K | Angel | Feb 01, 2020 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bayern Kapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bayern-kapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [UVC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uvc-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [be-exponential](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/be10x-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The Blue Minds Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-minds-solutions-gmbh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BMW i Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bmw-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [co-pace](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/co-pace) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Peter Mertens invest in?

Peter Mertens invests primarily in Software, Automotive and CleanTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Peter Mertens's check size?

Peter Mertens typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4.9M at Seed and $414k–$1.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Peter Mertens participates in.

### When did Peter Mertens last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Peter Mertens closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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