# Jens Wiese

> Jens Wiese is a Series A investor at Leitmotif (Palo Alto) backing Electric Vehicle and Robotics. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Leitmotif](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leitmotif)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jensulrichwiese
- Website: https://leitmotif.vc/

Jens Wiese is a Series A investor at Leitmotif in Palo Alto focused on Electric Vehicle and Robotics. Jens Wiese is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Leitmotif. Previously, Jens served as Head of Corporate Development at Volkswagen Group. Earlier in his career, Jens held senior management consulting roles at AlixPartners and Roland Berger.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Electric Vehicle | 3 | 43% |
| Robotics | 2 | 29% |
| Automotive | 2 | 29% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |
| Delivery | 1 | 14% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 29% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |
| Series D | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 57% |
| Sweden | 1 | 14% |
| Germany | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rhoda AI | Rhoda is building a new class of robot foundation model designed to bring general intelligence into the physical world. By combining internet-scale video pretraining with closed-loop video predictive control, Rhoda aims to enable robots that can adapt, generalize, and operate autonomously across real-world environments. The company works withleading industrial partners across manufacturing and logistics. | $450M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Harbinger | Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans. | $160M | Series C | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Harbinger | Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans. | $100M | Series B | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| DeepDrive | Deep Drive primarily develops drives for electric vehicles. | $33.5M | Series B | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Syre | Syre is a textile impact company that focuses on hyperscale textile-to-textile recycling, beginning with polyester. | $100M | Series A | May 23, 2024 |  |
| Future | It pays to go green with Future. Future’s payments network is purpose-built to decarbonize our world, facilitating the transition to a green lifestyle. Future connects the dots with a growing ecosystem of brands to make everyday green choices easy and ridiculously rewarding. | $6.5M | Seed | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| Redwood Materials | Redwood Materials creates a circular supply chain to drive down the environmental footprint and cost of lithium-ion batteries and the electric vehicles and sustainable energy storage systems they power. It offers recycling of end-of-life batteries and production scrap, refining of critical elements, and deployment of large-scale energy-storagesystems using second-life battery packs. | $1B | Series D | Aug 29, 2023 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Thor Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thor-industries) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ironspring Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ironspring) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maniv Mobility](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manivmobility) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Overture Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/overture-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ReGen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/regen-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Leitmotif

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Leitmotif is an independent venture capital firm. It empowers exceptional entrepreneurs to expedite their journey from technical proof to commercial scale.

2 contacts available at Leitmotif.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jens Wiese | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jens-wiese-c731 |
| Matt Trevithick | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-trevithick-fdaa |

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## FAQ

### What does Jens Wiese invest in?

Jens Wiese invests primarily in Electric Vehicle, Robotics and Automotive startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jens Wiese last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jens Wiese closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 7 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?

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