Jens Wiese

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Leitmotif

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Apr 2026
Epoch’s biorecycling platform unlocks circularity for the toughest-to-recycle materials. Our AI-designed enzymes enable infinite recycling for mixed plastics and textiles at low temperatures. We produce sustainable outputs for use in apparel, automotive, packaging and more.
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Sep 2025
RobCos mission is to automate the ordinary, so humans can do the extraodinary. Founded in 2020 out of the Technical University of Munich, RobCo is on a mission to make industrial automation more accessible, affordable, and adaptable. Its patented modular hardware kit, combined with the RobCo Studio no-code software platform, allows industrial companies of all sizes to automate repetitive and dangerous tasks quickly and with unmatched flexibility. Whether it’s machine tending, palletizing, dispensing, or welding, RobCo’s modular robot kits provide versatile end-to-end solutions that are simple to deploy and manage remotely — without heavy upfront investment or specialist expertise. With offices in Munich and San Francisco and robots already in operation worldwide, RobCo is supercharging a new generation of industrial companies to reduce costs, boost productivity, and compete on a global stage. RobCo’s modular robot kits provide versatile end-to-end solutions that are simple to deploy and manage remotely — without heavy upfront investment or specialist expertise. With offices in Munich and San Francisco and robots already in operation worldwide, RobCo is supercharging a new generation of industrial companies to reduce costs, boost productivity, and compete on a global stage.
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Dec 2024
Were on a mission - starting with 100% reusable rockets. At Stoke, we hire the best in the industry, grant them extreme ownership of their work, then celebrate their boundary-pushing speed of innovation. Working as part of a small team means you’ll have greater impact. At Stoke, we move fast, work hard, and have fun building the future of space mobility.
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Aug 2024
Building at the frontier of embodied intelligence. We’re currently in stealth and working with select partners as we prepare for public launch. If you’re excited about hard problems, first-principles thinking, and building category-defining systems, we’d love to hear from you.
Investor and Board Member
Jul 2024
We are DeepDrive, a high-tech company headquartered in Munich, Germany, offering revolutionary drive units for electric vehicles. Addressing the most pressing challenges of todays electric vehicles, our patented Dual Rotor motor topology does not only enable high-volume EVs with >800 km of range but also can save automakers more than €1 billion in costs when deployed at scale. Additionally, it enables EVs to drastically reduce carbon emissions, potentially saving multiple gigatonnes of CO2 emissions over the EV fleets lifetime. Versatile in design, our technology can be seamlessly integrated into the wheels or employed as a traditional central drive. Our experts with extensive experience in large-scale series production and the support of high-profile investors, including Leitmotif, BMW i Ventures, Continental‘s Corporate Venture Capital Unit, UVC Partners,, and Bayern Kapital make DeepDrive the motor of electric mobility. Additional investors include industry veteran Dr. Peter Mertens (former board member and CTO of Audi and Volvo) and top start-up executive Jonas Rieke (COO of Personio).
Investor and Board Observer
Jun 2024
The textile industry today accounts for up to 10% of global CO2e emissions. Textile waste is a growing global challenge. In fact, less than 1 percent of the global textile fiber market comes from recycled textiles. We envision a world where every textile fiber sees a new day. By implementing true textile-to-textile recycling at hyperscale, we are here to lead the green transition from a linear to a circular value chain by putting textile waste to use, over and over again. Starting with polyester, the world’s biggest fiber representing up to 40% of the textile industry’s total emissions. The great textile shift starts now.
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Apr 2024
Proxima Fusion is Europes leading fusion company, building the first generation of stellarator fusion power plants.
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Dec 2023
Harbinger is a commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbingers best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs. Leveraging a foundation of proprietary, in-house developed vehicle technologies designed specifically for commercial vehicles, Harbinger is bringing a first-of-its-kind EV platform to market, priced for zero acquisition premium. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2023
Future is building the most rewarding way to pay in the fast-growing sustainable economy.
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Oct 2023
Redwood Materials is building the U.S. stockpile of critical materials and deploying large-scale energy storage. Founded by JB Straubel, the company produces lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, and cathode active material at scale in the U.S., manufactures key components for advanced batteries, and deploys energy storage systems that power data centers and the nation’s grid. Redwood is expanding domestic capacity for next-generation energy storage and strengthening U.S. energy dominance.
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2026
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Apr 2026
Epoch’s biorecycling platform unlocks circularity for the toughest-to-recycle materials. Our AI-designed enzymes enable infinite recycling for mixed plastics and textiles at low temperatures. We produce sustainable outputs for use in apparel, automotive, packaging and more.
2025
Investor
Sep 2025
RobCos mission is to automate the ordinary, so humans can do the extraodinary. Founded in 2020 out of the Technical University of Munich, RobCo is on a mission to make industrial automation more accessible, affordable, and adaptable. Its patented modular hardware kit, combined with the RobCo Studio no-code software platform, allows industrial companies of all sizes to automate repetitive and dangerous tasks quickly and with unmatched flexibility. Whether it’s machine tending, palletizing, dispensing, or welding, RobCo’s modular robot kits provide versatile end-to-end solutions that are simple to deploy and manage remotely — without heavy upfront investment or specialist expertise. With offices in Munich and San Francisco and robots already in operation worldwide, RobCo is supercharging a new generation of industrial companies to reduce costs, boost productivity, and compete on a global stage. RobCo’s modular robot kits provide versatile end-to-end solutions that are simple to deploy and manage remotely — without heavy upfront investment or specialist expertise. With offices in Munich and San Francisco and robots already in operation worldwide, RobCo is supercharging a new generation of industrial companies to reduce costs, boost productivity, and compete on a global stage.
2024
Investor
Dec 2024
Were on a mission - starting with 100% reusable rockets. At Stoke, we hire the best in the industry, grant them extreme ownership of their work, then celebrate their boundary-pushing speed of innovation. Working as part of a small team means you’ll have greater impact. At Stoke, we move fast, work hard, and have fun building the future of space mobility.
Investor
Aug 2024
Building at the frontier of embodied intelligence. We’re currently in stealth and working with select partners as we prepare for public launch. If you’re excited about hard problems, first-principles thinking, and building category-defining systems, we’d love to hear from you.
Investor and Board Member
Jul 2024
We are DeepDrive, a high-tech company headquartered in Munich, Germany, offering revolutionary drive units for electric vehicles. Addressing the most pressing challenges of todays electric vehicles, our patented Dual Rotor motor topology does not only enable high-volume EVs with >800 km of range but also can save automakers more than €1 billion in costs when deployed at scale. Additionally, it enables EVs to drastically reduce carbon emissions, potentially saving multiple gigatonnes of CO2 emissions over the EV fleets lifetime. Versatile in design, our technology can be seamlessly integrated into the wheels or employed as a traditional central drive. Our experts with extensive experience in large-scale series production and the support of high-profile investors, including Leitmotif, BMW i Ventures, Continental‘s Corporate Venture Capital Unit, UVC Partners,, and Bayern Kapital make DeepDrive the motor of electric mobility. Additional investors include industry veteran Dr. Peter Mertens (former board member and CTO of Audi and Volvo) and top start-up executive Jonas Rieke (COO of Personio).
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