# Leitmotif

> Leitmotif is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Renewable Energy and Energy. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leitmotifvc
- Website: https://leitmotif.vc/

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

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $6M–$22M |
| Series A | $18M–$900M |
| Series C | $100M–$260M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Renewable Energy | 5 | 24% |
| Energy | 4 | 19% |
| Robotics | 3 | 14% |
| Clean Energy | 3 | 14% |
| Electric Vehicle | 3 | 14% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 24% |
| Series C | 4 | 19% |
| Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Series B | 3 | 14% |
| Series D | 3 | 14% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 48% |
| Germany | 3 | 14% |
| Sweden | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jens Wiese | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jens-wiese-c731 |
| Matt Trevithick | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-trevithick-fdaa |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Proxima Fusion | 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 |  |
| Epoch Biodesign | Mellizyme Biotechnology is currently operating in stealth. | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Lunar Energy | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Stoke Space | 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 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [redalpine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redalpine-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [UVC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uvc-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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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 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Leitmotif's check size?

Leitmotif typically joins rounds of $6M–$22M at Seed, $18M–$900M at Series A and $100M–$260M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Leitmotif participates in.

### How do I contact Leitmotif?

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### Who are the partners at Leitmotif?

The team at Leitmotif includes Jens Wiese (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Matt Trevithick (Co-Founder and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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