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Leitmotif
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Leitmotif is an independent venture capital firm with investors in Palo Alto and Munich that bridges the innovation ecosystems of the US and Europe. It supports startups moving from technology demonstration to commercial scale.
Invests inEducationIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsdecarbonizationhard techenergy storagefusionbatteriesrecycling
Your fit with Leitmotif
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Or find every investor that fitsLeitmotif lists 14 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 10 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Education (37%), Industrial & Manufacturing (33%) and AI & Machine Learning (11%). 62% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Lowercarbon Capital, DCVC and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Leitmotif, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 43% |
| Series B | 29% |
| Growth | 29% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 6 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 36th | 14 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 100th | 50% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Lowercarbon Capital | 4 |
| DCVC | 3 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 3 |
| Acequia Capital | 2 |
| Capricorn Partners | 2 |
| GV | 2 |
| Higher Life Ventures | 2 |
| IQT | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers14100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 37% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 33% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 11% | 18% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 7% | 1% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 4% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Lowercarbon Capital
Compare Leitmotif head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Leitmotif| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Sept 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 4 Feb 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 11 Jun 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Leitmotif
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Leitmotif's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
14 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch Biodesign converts waste into recycled materials, including nylon 6,6, using its biorecycling technology and AI-enabled platform | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Harbinger Motors manufactures electric and hybrid vehicles, including chassis, work trucks, and power systems. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Jan 2025Series B · 3 rounds | Page + round | |
| Lunar Energy designs and provides a full energy platform for homes, including solar, energy storage, and other electrification solutions. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Feb 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Pacific Fusion develops fusion systems for energy and national security using rapid, high-energy electrical pulses to compress and heat fuel for fusion. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Proxima Fusion is building stellarator fusion power plants and the industrial platform required to deliver them. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jun 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Redwood Materials provides domestic energy storage and secures U.S. critical materials, including lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper, through recycling and production. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Rhoda AI develops general-purpose robot foundation models trained on web-scale video and robot data, and deploys robotic systems for industrial tasks in factories, warehouses, and logistics. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| RobCo develops and provides autonomous industrial robotics solutions for various industries, including manufacturing and logistics. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Jan 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Sora Fuel produces jet and diesel fuel from air, water, and renewable energy using a direct air conversion method. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Stoke Space is building a space transportation system called Nova to launch, maneuver, return, and rapidly reconstitute critical space assets | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company decarbonizes and dewastes the textile industry through textile-to-textile recycling | Space & DefenseConsumer | May 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Tavion builds and operates utility-scale battery energy storage systems for the long term | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Xcimer Energy commercializes fusion energy and develops laser technology for air defense | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Zap Energy integrates fission and fusion to accelerate deployment and expand what advanced nuclear technology can be. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 10 Nov 2026- Site
- leitmotif.vc
- Last read
- 10 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Jan 2025
- Companies checked
- 14
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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