What does Motive Ventures invest in?
Motive Ventures invests most often at Series B and Pre-seed (75% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Finserv, Finance and Fin-tech.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 13 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $87M, Aug 2026Private equity
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6 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Series B and Pre-seed: 75% of its rounds
Led 4 rounds
From venture to growth & buyout across North America and EuropeFrom their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first13 appearances
5 rounds
5 rounds
2 rounds
1 round
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Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
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From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
Funds on its Form ADV
32 private funds, $4.7B in gross assets · filed Oct 2024
Private equity 28Venture 4
And 22 more on the filing.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Motive Ventures. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Motive Ventures put money into.
Motive Ventures invests most often at Series B and Pre-seed (75% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Finserv, Finance and Fin-tech.
13 investments on record, 6 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 4. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Hadrian (Series B, Oct 2026), Elio Mortgage (Pre-seed, Oct 2026) and LimeTax (Pre-seed, Sept 2026).
The median round it joins is $35M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $5.0M.
Yes: it led 4 of its 13 investments on record (31%).
Most of the companies it backs are in Germany (45%), the United States (36%) and the Netherlands (9%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 6 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Illuminate Financial Management (2 rounds together), Luminate (2 rounds together) and PayPal Ventures (2 rounds together).
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