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Motivate Venture Capital
Venture capital · Chicago, IL, United States · North America
Motivate Venture Capital is an early stage venture firm that makes pre-seed and seed investments, typically $250K-$750K at pre-seed and $1.5-3M at seed. It also co-creates new ventures with founders and invests in emerging pre-seed and seed stage VC funds.
Invests inFintech
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Or find every investor that fitsMotivate Venture Capital lists 60 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 71% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (31%), AI & Machine Learning (14%) and Healthcare & Biotech (10%). 96% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Stage Venture Partners, Anthemis and Bankers Helping Bankers Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Motivate Venture Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Motivate Venture Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 60. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 71% |
| Series A | 14% |
| Series B | 14% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 2 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 88th | 60 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 71% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 77th | 10% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 55th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 31% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 14% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 5% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 5% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Stage Venture Partners | 3 |
| Anthemis | 2 |
| Bankers Helping Bankers Fund | 2 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| Bridge Investments | 2 |
| Fin Capital | 2 |
| Mucker Capital | 2 |
| NVP Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers60100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Stage Venture Partners
Compare Motivate Venture Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Motivate Venture Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Series B | |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 24 Oct 2022 | Series A | |
| 15 Sept 2022 | Seed |
Round details for Motivate Venture Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Motivate Venture Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
60 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides AI workers for policy and compliance workflows using proprietary regulatory data and contextual intelligence. | AI & Machine LearningLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| AlgoX2 provides a data streaming operating system that unifies ingestion, ordering, fan-out, transformation, and durable storage | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Ambient runs a decentralized trading protocol | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aption offers equity pooling solutions to help startup founders and executives manage and diversify their assets | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Attain captures billions in live, permissioned consumer spend—mobilizing it to target, measure, and optimize media for real sales outcomes. | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops a system for voice AI to detect whether speech is directed at the device or not | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Aucto operates an online marketplace for buying and selling used industrial equipment and machinery. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Banyan helps unlock and activate item-level receipt data to power commercial and consumer applications | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Oct 2022Series A | Page + round | |
| ChargeUp automates administrative tasks for brokers and brands, such as filling out forms and setting up new items with retailers and distributors. | Food & AgricultureE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Clyr provides expense management services that work with existing credit cards | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cyphlens is a security platform that verifies the presence of a human at every login and every file access. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Dyania Health develops and provides Synapsis AI for healthcare systems to interpret patient data and assist with clinical decision-making | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Eko provides an investment platform for credit unions and banks to offer investment services to their clients | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Elara Spatial turns property photos into damage estimates using computer vision technology. | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ensemble AI provides a platform that utilizes multiple AI models to complete tasks and assembles the results into a finished product | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| FeedbackNow provides real-time feedback and predictive analytics for various industries such as healthcare, travel, and retail. | Healthcare & BiotechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Feltsense is a software company that builds and operates fleets of agentic founders to ideate, ship, and capture market share. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Finofo automates accounts payable, expense, and purchasing processes using AI | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Fulcrum provides cloud manufacturing software for managing various aspects of a manufacturing business, including job tracking, inventory, and finance reporting. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company transforms team and athlete performance into continuous index values that rise or fall over the course of a season in professional and collegiate sports. | FintechMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- motivate.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Sept 2022
- Companies checked
- 60
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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