Tobias Jahn, former managing director of Germany-based carmaker BMW’s corporate venturing unit, BMW i Ventures, in Europe, has joined the locally-based Hitachi Ventures team as a partner.
Japan-listed electronics conglomerate Hitachi had originally set up its $150m CVC unit in mid-2019. Jahn had spent six years at BMW i Ventures from 2015, initially as a principal, having originally joining the company in the early 2000’s.
Jahn had then left BMW in 2008 and worked with Stefan Gabriel, GCV Powerlist 2021 award winner and CEO of Hitachi Ventures, the Munich-based investment arm of Hitachi, as a senior manager at another corporate venturing unit, 3M New Ventures, for six and a half years.
Photo of Tobias Jahn courtesy of LinkedIn.
