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Motive Partners
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Motive Partners is an investment firm founded in 2015 that invests in tech-enabled financial and business services companies. It invests from venture through growth and buyout, and also provides hands-on value creation support to portfolio companies through its Create platform.
Invests inFintech
In its own wordsfintechfinancial servicespaymentsinsurancecapital marketswealth management
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Or find every investor that fitsMotive Partners lists 67 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 23 funding rounds, 11 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 44% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (63%), AI & Machine Learning (10%) and Healthcare & Biotech (7%). 40% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside 14Peaks Capital, Fin Capital and HV Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Motive Partners, 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 Motive Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 19 companies; its own site lists 67. 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 | 6% |
| Seed | 44% |
| Series A | 6% |
| Series B | 28% |
| Growth | 17% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 7 | 3 |
| '26 | 15 | 8 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 90th | 67 companies |
| Recent activity | 98th | 16 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 94th | 24% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 90th | 63% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 91th | 8 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 63% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 10% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Legal & Compliance | 3% | 2% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 3% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 3% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 14Peaks Capital | 3 |
| Fin Capital | 3 |
| HV Capital | 3 |
| Heliad | 3 |
| Illuminate Financial | 3 |
| Portage | 3 |
| Robin Capital | 3 |
| AlleyCorp | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6597%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company23%
- 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 togetherCompare Motive Partners 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 Motive Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Nov 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Series B | |
| 9 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 18 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 18 May 2026 | Series B |
Round details for Motive Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Motive Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
67 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alchelyst is an integrated investor solutions and infrastructure partner for private markets asset managers | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Alphastream transforms raw deal data into real-time intelligence for private credit | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Anchorage Digital provides financial services and infrastructure for institutions to trade, hold, and manage digital assets. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
Fintech | Portfolio page | |||
| Asseta provides financial management software for family offices, including general ledger, bill pay, investments data, and reporting | Fintech | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Aufinity automates financial processes in the automotive trade | FintechMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Avaloq provides a platform and services for banks and wealth managers to manage their operations and businesses | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Backbase provides digital banking solutions and services to financial institutions. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| BetaNXT provides automated workflows and services for financial institutions, including trading, clearing, and investor communications. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides infrastructure and services for private market fund operations, including fund accounting, reporting, and administration. | FintechFintech | May 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| CAIS connects independent financial advisors with leading alternative asset managers, providing access to alternative investments and structured notes | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Constrafor provides construction-first risk management software and growth solutions for construction firms. | FintechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Corastone provides a platform to unlock increased volume, easier counterparty access and more complex alternative investment products in private markets. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cordant provides a command center platform for financial operations to monitor and manage transactions, compliance, and partnerships. | FintechFintech | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Credix provides credit infrastructure for businesses in Brazil, offering payment terms at checkout and handling underwriting, funding, and collections | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Dun & Bradstreet delivers verified, continuously updated business intelligence so businesses can grow faster, manage risk, and act with greater certainty. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| DoorFeed provides an AI platform for real estate investment analysis | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI-driven consulting services for digital transformation | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Oct 2025Round | Page + round | |
| Elio Mortgage is a company that provides mortgage services and simplifies the loan process for borrowers and loan officers. | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Finperks provides a prepaid and gift card API for European platforms | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- motivepartners.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Dec 2024
- Companies checked
- 67
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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