Leitmotif
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Leitmotif is an independent venture capital firm anchored by a $300 million commitment from European industrial interests. With investors in Palo Alto and Munich, we actively bridge the innovation ecosystems of the US and Europe. Our first fund focuses on decarbonization and leans later stage. We have a soft spot for hard tech.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Leitmotif invests in
Stages Leitmotif invests in
Countries Leitmotif invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $6M–$22M
- Series A
- $18M–$900M
- Series C
- $100M–$260M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Renewable Energy 6 (27%)
- Energy 5 (23%)
- Robotics 3 (14%)
- Clean Energy 3 (14%)
- Electric Vehicle 3 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (23%)
- Series C 4 (18%)
- Seed 3 (14%)
- Series B 3 (14%)
- Series D 3 (14%)
Country
- United States 10 (45%)
- Germany 3 (14%)
- Sweden 2 (9%)
- United Kingdom 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jens Wiese
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Matt Trevithick
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Philipp Emig
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tavion is a developer of battery energy storage systems that is expediting Europe's shift to renewable energy. Tavion creates and runs utility-scale BESS infrastructure to improve grid flexibility, stabilize intermittent renewable power, and promote energy independence in European markets. | $39.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Proxima Fusion is a fusion energy company developing stellarator-based fusion power plants to deliver safe, carbon-free, and commercially viable electricity. The company focuses on commercializing quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators, a type of magnetic confinement fusion reactor designed to provide continuous and stable plasma operation. ProximaFusion collaborates closely with research institutions, industrial partners, and energy companies across Europe through the Alpha Alliance, a consortium established to scale the manufacturing and engineering capabilities needed for commercial fusion. The company leverages scientific breakthroughs from the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator while developing proprietary engineering, simulation, and manufacturing technologies to industrialize fusion power generation. | $470.1M / Series B / Jul 07, 2026 | ||
| Mellizyme Biotechnology is currently operating in stealth. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Lunar Energy's mission is to transition homes to 100% clean energy. Founded in 2020, Lunar Energy is designing and engineering the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants. The fast-growing, global company is delivering an ecosystem of all-electric productsto make our electricity greener, our air cleaner, and our energy more safe, secure, and reliable for all. | $102M / Series D / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| RobCo is a company that develops modular industrial robotics systems combined with AI-driven software to automate manual and repetitive tasks in manufacturing environments. It provides a platform that includes configurable robotic hardware, no-code programming tools, AI-powered vision systems, and digital simulation to plan, test, and deployautomation workflows across applications like machine loading, palletizing, and materials handling. The company’s solutions are designed to be flexible and scalable so manufacturers can adapt robot configurations as production requirements evolve. RobCo also offers tools for remote management, predictive maintenance, and integration with existing equipment to support continuous operation. Its products aim to simplify the adoption of robotics by reducing the need for specialized programming and enabling simulation-based validation before physical deployment. | $100M / Series C / Jan 29, 2026 | ||
Harbinger
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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 | |
| Proxima Fusion is a fusion energy company developing stellarator-based fusion power plants to deliver safe, carbon-free, and commercially viable electricity. The company focuses on commercializing quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators, a type of magnetic confinement fusion reactor designed to provide continuous and stable plasma operation. ProximaFusion collaborates closely with research institutions, industrial partners, and energy companies across Europe through the Alpha Alliance, a consortium established to scale the manufacturing and engineering capabilities needed for commercial fusion. The company leverages scientific breakthroughs from the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator while developing proprietary engineering, simulation, and manufacturing technologies to industrialize fusion power generation. | $17.6M / Series A / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Proxima Fusion is a fusion energy company developing stellarator-based fusion power plants to deliver safe, carbon-free, and commercially viable electricity. The company focuses on commercializing quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators, a type of magnetic confinement fusion reactor designed to provide continuous and stable plasma operation. ProximaFusion collaborates closely with research institutions, industrial partners, and energy companies across Europe through the Alpha Alliance, a consortium established to scale the manufacturing and engineering capabilities needed for commercial fusion. The company leverages scientific breakthroughs from the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator while developing proprietary engineering, simulation, and manufacturing technologies to industrialize fusion power generation. | $149.6M / Series A / Jun 11, 2025 | ||
| Stoke Space develops the Nova rocket, a fully reusable launch vehicle designed to provide affordable access to and from Earth's orbit. The vehicle features a reusable upper stage that enables on-demand access to any orbit for cargo, logistics, and asset operations. Stoke Space operates vertically integrated design and manufacturing to buildand rapidly iterate on its rocket engines and structures. | $260M / Series C / Jan 15, 2025 | ||
| See all 22 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Leitmotif invest in?
Leitmotif invests primarily in Renewable Energy, Energy and Robotics startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Leitmotif invest in?
Leitmotif typically joins rounds of $6M–$22M at Seed, $18M–$900M at Series A and $100M–$260M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Leitmotif's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Leitmotif took part in.
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Who are the partners at Leitmotif?
The team at Leitmotif includes Jens Wiese (Co-Founder and Managing Partner), Matt Trevithick (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Philipp Emig (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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