# Christian Roth

> Christian Roth is a seed investor at LEA Partners backing Automotive and Machine Learning. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LEA Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lea-partners)
- Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2018
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrroth

Christian Roth is a seed investor at LEA Partners in Karlsruhe focused on Automotive and Machine Learning. Christian Roth - Managing Partner @ LEA Partners

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| understand.ai | understand.ai provides the highest possible training and validation data to make autonomous driving safe and reliable. Their company was founded in the belief that a human’s ability to understand, meaning to interpret or view something in a particular way, can be complemented, enhanced and accelerated by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to ahighly repetitive task. Their mission is to push the boundaries of technology and AI to advance the state of autonomous driving. understand.ai provides high-quality training and validation data to enable mobility companies to develop with confidence computer vision and machine learning models that reliably and safely power autonomous vehicles.Their advanced capabilities include segmentation and bounding box annotations for LiDAR and 2D camera data, with specific meta-attributes and instance ID labeling for object tracking. By applying specialized AI technology and continuous quality improvement to accurately and quickly annotate millions of images, they accelerate production of the ground-truth required to make autonomous driving a reality. | $2.8M | Seed | Jan 16, 2018 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Frontline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontline-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Synapse Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/synapsepartners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LEA Partners

VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Germany

LEA Partners as an entrepreneurial-minded multi-stage private equity and venture capital firm and supports ambitious B2B Tech founders and executives by leveraging them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to achieve market leadership.

3 contacts available at LEA Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Roth | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-roth |
| Nils Seele | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nils-seele |
| Sebastian Müller | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-muller-4 |

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## FAQ

### What does Christian Roth invest in?

Christian Roth invests primarily in Automotive, Machine Learning and Autonomous Vehicles startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Christian Roth last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christian Roth closed in Jan 2018. Shizune tracks 1 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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