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6 partners

Meet the Team

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Fares Agua

Principal

engineering
product
venture
hardware
software
machine learning

As Principal at LEAP4, Fares builds bridges between engineering, product, and venture. He has experience across consulting, startups, and a large-scale family business. He is an engineer by training with a technology management degree from TUM and CDTM.

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Theresia M.R. Heinrich

Senior Investment Manager

investments
strategy
business strategy
team calibration
governance
deal negotiation

As Senior Investment Manager at LEAP4, Theresia combines venture experience with a strong innovator network from OxBridge to the Ivy League. Her background spans investments, strategy, and high-stakes negotiation, supporting technical founders through business strategy, governance, and deal negotiation.

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Dr. Jan Burgard

General Partner

traction
sales
marketing automation
growth strategies

As Founding Partner at LEAP4, Jan focuses on helping companies gain traction. He was a co-founder of a leading global strategy consulting firm, scaled teams across continents, and led transformations for leading OEMs. He is an economist with a PhD in business.

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Dr. Tobias von Wiesentreu

Investor

venture investments
company building
fundraising
equity story

Tobias is described as a serial entrepreneur and company builder who co-founded, built and scaled more than twenty startups and raised over 200m EUR. As an investor, he led more than 100 venture investments and achieved more than a dozen high-profile exits, including two unicorn IPOs.

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Daniel Willenbrink

Investment Manager

strategy
go-to-market
finance
operations
sustainability
corporate innovation

As Investment Manager at LEAP4, Daniel works across startup disciplines including strategy, GTM, finance, operations and sustainability. Before joining LEAP4, he built and scaled corporate innovation with Berylls Digital Ventures, Porsche Digital’s company builder Forward31, and Plug and Play in Germany and Silicon Valley.

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Dr. Matthias Kempf

General Partner

mobility
logistics
industry tech
innovation

As GP at LEAP4, Matthias is described as one of Europe’s most connected minds in mobility, logistics and industry tech. Before selling a globally leading mobility strategy firm, he helped major OEMs tackle challenges and led innovation projects such as MOIA. He is an engineer by training with a PhD in economics.

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