Matt Trevithick
Managing Partner at Leitmotif
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
2023 - Current
Leitmotif is an independent venture capital firm backed by European industrial interests that actively bridges the innovation ecosystems of the US and Europe. We empower extraordinary startups to accelerate the transition from technical proof to commercial scale.
Investor
2024
Small modular Z-pinch fusion systems.
2023 - 2024
Investor
2022 - 2023
Zap Energy is developing compact fusion power that doesn't require magnets or lasers.
Raised $337,800,000.00 from Shell Ventures, BAM Elevate, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Mizuho Financial Group, Emerson Collective, Plynth Energy, DCVC, Xplor Ventures, Soros Fund Management and Valor Equity Partners.
Investor
2024
Sustainable aviation fuel from direct air capture.
Investor
2024
Steady-state stellarators to commercialize magnetic confinement fusion.
Investor
2024
Laser systems for inertial confinement fusion.
Investor
2024
Batteries for aviation.
Investor
2023
Electrified chassis for medium-duty vehicles.
Harbinger is a commercial electric vehicle (EV) company that focuses on chassis architecture design.
Raised $185,110,008.00 from Greycroft.
Investor
2023
Residential home energy storage systems.
Investor
2023
Recycling battery materials to create domestic supply.
Redwood Materials is a battery recycling startup that makes electric vehicles and sustainable materials for circular supply chains.
Raised $3,817,000,000.00 from T. Rowe Price, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Future Positive, Deepwater Asset Management, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Capricorn Investment Group and Caterpillar.
Advisor
2023
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPSs) that use abundant and available isotopes for commercial and government customers in space and terrestrial markets.
Investor
2022 - 2023
Education
SM
1992 - 1994
SB
1988 - 1992
Master's Thesis Research
1993 - 1993