Tobias Jahn
Partner @ Hitachi Ventures
Munich, Germany
Tobias Jahn is a Series B investor at Hitachi Ventures in Munich focused on Software and Energy. Tobias is a Partner at Hitachi Ventures. He holds a master in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
Last updated:
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Industries Tobias Jahn invests in
Stages Tobias Jahn invests in
Countries Tobias Jahn invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (27%)
- Energy 2 (18%)
- Recycling 2 (18%)
- Machine Learning 2 (18%)
- Battery 1 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 5 (45%)
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Seed 1 (9%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
- Series D 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 4 (36%)
- Germany 2 (18%)
- India 1 (9%)
- Canada 1 (9%)
- United Kingdom 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Exponent Energy
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Exponent Energy focuses on developing fast charging technology for electric vehicles.Exponent Energy's energy stack can speed up and simplify energy and charging for their client's electric vehicles which ensures the least amount of impedance buildup and results in a continuous flow of energy.The company also offers customers abattery management system, battery pack, and charger that all function in concert.Exponent Energy was established in 2020 by Arun Vinayak and Sanjay Byalal Jagannath in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $21M / Series B / Jun 10, 2026 | |
Makersite
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Product life cycle management involves making design decisions based on multiple criteria including cost, compliance, sustainability, and risk. Unfortunately, the data and expertise required to make these decisions are siloed. This protracts the process of innovation and increases its complexity. Today, the market solves this problem withvertical applications like PDM, ERP, CAD, EHS, SCM, etc. These mostly remain siloed due to the enormous costs of integration and keeping data synchronized. Therefore, analyses typically require exporting data to aggregation tools e.g. BI or excel before being used for analyses in specialist decision support applications. Results are typically delayed, some taking as much as 9 months, and therefore provide little support during the design process. Makersite provides results instantly and simultaneously across key product criteria.Makersite combines external and internal data sources to create a digital twin of a product in design. Artificial intelligence and our graph-based data model allow for ingesting, representing, and connecting heterogeneous data easily. Its native applications use ground-breaking algorithms to support analysis and decision making based on multiple criteria simultaneously including should-costs, regulatory compliance, life cycle impacts (LCA), supply chain risk, etc. Our API-first architecture allows for easy integrations into existing IT infrastructures thereby supporting systems and processes with richer, fresher, and more timely product data.This allows engineers to understand and improve their designs from the perspective of their regulatory compliance, environmental impact, supply risk, and cost of production, simultaneously. Companies can get results up to 40x faster than traditional methods while making their products better. | $70.4M / Series B / Jul 22, 2025 | |
Cyclic Materials
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Cyclic Materials provides recycling services that recover rare earth elements aiming to reduce the opening of new mines and accelerate the transition to electric mobility and cleaner energy. It operates landfill-bound products and recovering their critical metals that help businesses in supplying wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electronicssegments by reducing CO2 emissions. | $52.7M / Series B / Sep 25, 2024 | |
Strangeworks
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Strangeworks makes the power of quantum computing accessible to everyone all in one place. Learn more at http://quantumcomputing.com | $24M / Series A / Mar 21, 2023 | |
Ascend Elements
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Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. It uses hydro process recycling and direct recycling that takes old cathode material down to the atomic level to create new cathode materials. It also helps clients to have maximum return on assets to economically driverecycling and low-cost battery materials.The company was founded in 2015. | $200M / Series C / Oct 26, 2022 | |
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Makersite
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Product life cycle management involves making design decisions based on multiple criteria including cost, compliance, sustainability, and risk. Unfortunately, the data and expertise required to make these decisions are siloed. This protracts the process of innovation and increases its complexity. Today, the market solves this problem withvertical applications like PDM, ERP, CAD, EHS, SCM, etc. These mostly remain siloed due to the enormous costs of integration and keeping data synchronized. Therefore, analyses typically require exporting data to aggregation tools e.g. BI or excel before being used for analyses in specialist decision support applications. Results are typically delayed, some taking as much as 9 months, and therefore provide little support during the design process. Makersite provides results instantly and simultaneously across key product criteria.Makersite combines external and internal data sources to create a digital twin of a product in design. Artificial intelligence and our graph-based data model allow for ingesting, representing, and connecting heterogeneous data easily. Its native applications use ground-breaking algorithms to support analysis and decision making based on multiple criteria simultaneously including should-costs, regulatory compliance, life cycle impacts (LCA), supply chain risk, etc. Our API-first architecture allows for easy integrations into existing IT infrastructures thereby supporting systems and processes with richer, fresher, and more timely product data.This allows engineers to understand and improve their designs from the perspective of their regulatory compliance, environmental impact, supply risk, and cost of production, simultaneously. Companies can get results up to 40x faster than traditional methods while making their products better. | $18M / Series A / Oct 18, 2022 | |
Battery Resourcers
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Founded in 2015, based on technology out of Professor Wang's group at WPI, Battery Resourcers, is committed to changing the dynamics for processing end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. Currently, most lithium-ion batteries are landfilled. If they have been recycled only the metal value from the batteries is recovered. Battery Resourcersproprietary process allows one to directly synthesize new cathode materials from spent lithium-ion cells. Battery Resourcers will be able to deliver low-cost cathode materials to the lithium-ion battery market enabling green technologies and resulting in less landfilled material a more sustainable pathway forward. | $70M / Sep 21, 2021 | |
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Ascend Elements
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Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. It uses hydro process recycling and direct recycling that takes old cathode material down to the atomic level to create new cathode materials. It also helps clients to have maximum return on assets to economically driverecycling and low-cost battery materials.The company was founded in 2015. | $70M / Series B / Sep 21, 2021 | |
Synera
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Bremen-based software company ELISE GmbH has created the first low-code development platform for engineering. Engineers can use it to automate recurring tasks across all domains in a single environment. Thus, unlike in classical design processes, ELISE enables algorithm-based modeling. As a result of this automation, developers can return tocreative activities and ultimately design faster and better products. On ELISE, all data and the entire expert knowledge of the development process are integrated. Engineers are thus provided with technical capabilities that are otherwise only available to software developers, despite their diverse skills. This is achieved through a visual programming language for which no special IT knowledge is required. Users of ELISE work in numerous industries, including automotive, aerospace and medical technology. The platform’s potential has been proven at customers such as Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai, Brose and EDAG. With the help of ELISE, they were able to design individual components up to 90 percent faster than before. | $3.2M / Seed / Nov 10, 2019 | |
Graphcore
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Graphcore is a startup that develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications. It has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for artificial intelligence. The IPU’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster. The company was founded in2016 and is headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom. | $200M / Series D / Dec 18, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About Hitachi Ventures
Hitachi Ventures invests in innovative companies that address society’s key technological challenges in areas like IT, industrial automation (robotics, sensor technology and IoT), cloud services (data management, cybersecurity), mobility (autonomous driving, mobility services, smart infrastructure and security services), energy, smart medicine (AIfor digital imaging, smart diagnostics, remote care), smart city, smart infrastructure and more. With our first fund of USD 150M, we invest in Series A/B/C rounds in globally leading startups. From our offices in Munich, Germany, and Boston, USA, we work tirelessly to develop close ties and effective collaboration with leading innovative technology hubs and like-minded co-investors. Hitachi intends to leverage its strong position in multiple global technology markets, its expertise and network to support and promote Hitachi Ventures portfolio companies.
Hitachi Ventures Contacts
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Joanna Soroka
Principal
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Peter Bastien
Partner
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Stefan Gabriel
Founder, MD and CEO
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Tobias Jahn
Partner
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Wolfgang Seibold
Partner & CFO
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What does Tobias Jahn invest in?
Tobias Jahn invests primarily in Software, Energy and Recycling startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 Tobias Jahn last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Tobias Jahn closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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