Matt Trevithick
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Leitmotif
Palo Alto, United States
Matt Trevithick is a seed investor at Leitmotif in Palo Alto focused on Energy and Clean Energy. Matt Trevithick is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Leitmotif.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Matt Trevithick invests in
Stages Matt Trevithick invests in
Countries Matt Trevithick invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 3 (30%)
- Clean Energy 3 (30%)
- Renewable Energy 3 (30%)
- Nuclear 2 (20%)
- CleanTech 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (20%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Series C 2 (20%)
- Series D 2 (20%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 5 (50%)
- Germany 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Proxima Fusion
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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 | |
Lunar Energy
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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 | |
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Proxima Fusion
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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 | |
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Proxima Fusion
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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
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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 | |
Zap Energy
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Zap Energy's fusion technology stabilizes plasma using sheared flows rather than magnetic fields. Driving electric current through the flow creates the magnetic field, which confines and compresses the plasma. The higher the current, the greater the pressure and density in the plasma. The flow-stabilized Z-pinch approach provides compellingfusion economics and requires less capital than conventional fusion technologies. | $130M / Series D / Sep 26, 2024 | |
Sora Fuel
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Sora Fuel makes jet fuel from just air, water, and renewable energy. Sora Fuel combine carbon capture and utilization into a single process, dramatically reducing the amount of energy required to produce SAF, enabling a truly affordable, carbon-negative drop-in solution. | $6M / Seed / Aug 01, 2024 | |
Xcimer Energy
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Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California. | $100M / Series A / Jun 04, 2024 | |
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Proxima Fusion
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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. | $21.7M / Seed / Apr 09, 2024 | |
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Lunar Energy
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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. | $130M / Series C / Nov 03, 2023 |
Co-Investors
About Leitmotif
Leitmotif is an independent venture capital firm. It empowers exceptional entrepreneurs to expedite their journey from technical proof to commercial scale.
Leitmotif Contacts
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Jens Wiese
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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What does Matt Trevithick invest in?
Matt Trevithick invests primarily in Energy, Clean Energy and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Matt Trevithick closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 10 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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