# Richard Mergler

> Richard Mergler is a seed investor at Presence Orb backing Apps and SaaS. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Presence Orb
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-mergler-24a3805

Richard Mergler is a seed investor at Presence Orb in London focused on Apps and SaaS. Richard Mergler - Board Member @ Presence Orb

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Parking | 1 | 50% |
| Internet | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ExpectAI | Expect to Decarbonise, profitably.Mission: Expect exists to collectively reduce CO2e emissions by 500 megatonnes this decade.Platform: Expect’s AI-powered SaaS platform UNA enables large enterprise organisations and their partners to reduce carbon emissions, profitably.Platform Overview: Understand carbon emissions by automating andreporting bottom-up product-level, asset-level, and supplier-level carbon visibility, projections, and risk assessments. Navigate decarbonisation pathways by designing and simulating carbon reduction plans, while Expect’s AI continuously learns about your business and generates relevant carbon reduction insetting opportunities, with a focus on ROI.Accelerate profitable decarbonisation by selecting insetting opportunities highlighted by Expect’s AI, including vendors offering cost-effective solutions, and by establishing joint carbon visibility and roadmaps with suppliers, customers, and investment portfolio companies.An end-to-end solution to manage your decarbonisation strategy/programme and progress across your business.UNA continuously analyses data across your business to calculate GHG emissions and identify risks & opportunities and empowers your team members to take carbon reduction insetting actions. | $869.8K | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2022 |  |
| Liftango | Shared Transport. Reinvented. Liftango powers some of the most successful on-demand shared transport systems across the world. By guiding global organisations on how to plan, launch and scale their shared mobility programs, we help provide a path to a sustainable and climate-positive future. | $675K | Seed | Mar 09, 2018 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## About Presence Orb

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Presence Orb bridges the gap between online and offline visitor behaviour insight. By understanding how visitors interact with your spaces, providing guest Wi-Fi to gain insight into demographic-based behaviour, and creating hyper-targeted, real-time, location-based marketing opportunities, our clients are able to:- Improve visitor experience andincrease brand loyalty - Optimise operations for better product-market fit - Accurately evaluate campaigns and measure success - Predict customer behaviour with up to 94% accuracyA robust​ venue analytics platform, Presence Orb allows clients in industries such as retail, hospitality, leisure, property management and transport networks to track how customers and staff use their commercial space. This data is analysed to provide actionable business intelligence and real-time, location-based marketing communications opportunities.We track customers using in-venue wifi networks and customer mobile phones. Passive tracking means customers do not need to engage with any websites or apps in order to be tracked, ensuring maximised data accuracy. If current wifi networks are compatible, there is no additional hardware required; no messy installations or capital expenditure.Presence Orb brings business intelligence to all departments and teams within your organisation; from operations to to strategy planning, marketing and beyond! Capture metrics KPI metrics, gain deep insight into how different types of visitors interact with your venues and communicate in real-time to improve customer experience, evaluate initiatives and boost brand loyalty.In addition to the data captured, import third party data such as sales figures and staffing levels, or open source data such as weather and transport to further enrich insight. Use predictive analytics to forecast customer behaviour with up to 94% accuracy.

5 contacts available at Presence Orb.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Richard Mergler | Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-mergler |
| Alan Graham | CTO | — |
| Jade Dee Edinburgh | Head of partners | — |
| Sandris Viskers | Software Engineering | — |
| Thomas Sheppard | CEO | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Richard Mergler invest in?

Richard Mergler invests primarily in Apps, SaaS and Parking startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Richard Mergler last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Richard Mergler closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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