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What does Motivate Venture Capital invest in?
Motivate Venture Capital invests most often at Seed and Venture (68% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Fintech, AI and Manufacturing.
Motivate Venture Capital highlights
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7 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 68% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 5 rounds, median $2.1M
What they do
We are early stage specialists, having have spent our careers building and investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $2.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- FintechAIManufacturing
- Based in
- Chicago, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first50 appearances
- 2026
6 rounds
- Nov
- Aug
- Jul
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- 2025
13 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- 2024
11 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Jun
- Apr
- Jan
- 2023
11 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Aug
- Aug
- Jun
- Jun
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
DWDavid WielandMember, Chief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
LPLauren Philip DelucaExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 3 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$248Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Motivate Capital Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 314339
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 1 we have independently watched raise
Attaindata
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.