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What does Motley Fool Ventures invest in?
Motley Fool Ventures invests most often at Series A and Venture (68% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Emotion Detection, Fintech and Investing.
Motley Fool Ventures highlights
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10 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Venture: 68% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 9 rounds, median $5.5M
What they do
Motley Fool Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund powered by The Motley Fool's brand, investing approach, and communities.From their own website
- Type
- Corporate VC
- Cheque size
- $1.0M – $2.0M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Emotion DetectionFintechInvesting
- Based in
- Alexandria, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first45 appearances
- 2026
10 rounds
- Sept
- Sept
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- 2025
6 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Jul
- Apr
- Apr
- 2024
8 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Oct
- Jul
- May
- Mar
- Jan
- 2023
7 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Jun
- Jun
- Apr
- Feb
- 2022
1 round
- Mar
- 2021
4 rounds
- Oct
- Aug
- Aug
- Feb
- 2019
7 rounds
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- Apr
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 registration7 named
BJBrendan John MatthewsManaging PartneriForm ADV
HDHarry D HsingGeneral CounseliForm ADV
LTLawrence T GreenbergChief Compliance Officer, Venture PartneriForm ADV
NJNicholas John CrowPresident, Motley Fool Investment Management LLCiForm ADV
ODOllen DouglassManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
RTRichard ThomsOfficer of the Issuer's Administrative ManageriFiling they signed
RNRobert Neil RunettPartneriForm ADV
We also hold 16 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
$307Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Motley FOOL Ventures Management LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 298748
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
39 of 60 we have independently watched raise
ALT Sports DataAffectivaBambooBennieBidbusCartaChargezoomCleatusCoverRightDatabentoDorsataEdVisorlyEsusuFinliFunction HealthHUNGRY MarketplaceKETOSKarlsgateKredosAILegalMationMadison ReedMagicDoorMealogic (fkaMicro1MicroshareMyWallStMycroftPassthroughPostProcessRivia HealthRoundtripShiftMedStreetSharesSunnysideSwivelTransCryptsUrbanStemsWealthForgeWhopAltExchangeAssetBoldinCaribouCarta (Fund II Administrator)Citus HealthCorralDataEyrusFirestorm LabsFondoFundPanel (Fund I Administrator)InHerSightLP PortalMarbleMenuDataMotionworksNicksonRepublicRove TravelUpskilliinkand 1 more
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.