Motive Partners
Private equityNew York · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 2 people tracked
Also known as MOTIVE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
Investment thesis
Motive Partners invests in financial technology opportunities, sourcing deals through deep networks, sector insight, and disciplined underwriting. The firm backs market-leading technology, data, and service providers redefining investment products, payments, insurance, capital markets, and financial infrastructure. Focus areas include software and services that democratize wealth and asset management, payment technologies that modernize commerce, next-generation insurance software, solutions transforming issuance and trade workflows, clean data foundations that make organizations AI-ready, and technology-enabled services for financial services. The firm pairs investment expertise with operational leadership, deploying proven operators to enhance, manage, and scale portfolio companies across go-to-market, data, and operations.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 9 of 65 portfolio companiesFintech ×6SaaS ×4AI & Machine Learning ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2Climate Tech ×1Cybersecurity ×1E-commerce ×1Enterprise Software ×1
HQs:United States×6United Kingdom×1
Investments · 65 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathInsurify operates an online insurance-comparison marketplace and licensed agency where U.S. consumers can compare and buy car, home, life, renters, commercial, business, and pet insurance from up to 500 partner insurers.
FintechInsurTechMarketplacesCambridge, US
Daniel Tsiddon(Director)Giorgos Zacharia(Co-founder)Snezhina Zacharia(Executive Officer, Director)James O'Neill(Director)Chang Jo(Executive Officer)Todor Kiryazov(Mr. Kiryazov is the Chief Product Officer of the Issuer.)
DoorFeed is a platform for residential real estate investment that combines market intelligence, property analysis, and automated financial modelling, letting institutional investors, developers, brokers, and asset managers go from market screening to investment decision.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaS
Beverly Hills, US
J.P. Whelan(Director)John Wise(Executive Officer, Director)Richard Garman(Director)Colin Close(Executive Officer, Director)
Pollinate builds AI agents for supply chain operations, starting with procurement automation that extracts supplier invoices from email and reconciles them against purchase orders and receipts across ERP systems.
Enterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSan Francisco, US
Adeep Mitra(Founder)inCorey Berther(Founder)inNam Le(Executive Officer, Director)
Platform for managing and reconciling over-the-counter derivatives contracts with algorithms that suggest exposure-reducing trades to banks.
Novata is a sustainability/ESG data management platform with expert advisory services, letting users collect, manage, and report carbon, risk, and sustainability data aligned to frameworks and regulations.
Climate TechFintechSaaSMantoloking, US
Tasha Matharu(Director)Scott Kennedy(Executive Officer)Pavani Thagirisa(Director)Christina Alfonso-Ercan(Executive Officer)Chris Jurgens(Director)Alexander Friedman(Executive Officer, Director)
Pocono Pines, US
Rene van Kesteren(Chief Executive Officer and Treasurer)Yevgeniy Feldman(Secretary and Co-Founder)Michael Steinberg(Director)Stephane De Baets(Director)
ThreatFabric provides fraud prevention software combining mobile threat intelligence and a real-time fraud risk suite to detect scams, account takeover, device takeover, and hybrid fraud across web and mobile channels.
CybersecurityFintechSaaS
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Motive Partners invest at?
- Motive Partners invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What is Motive Partners's typical check size?
- Motive Partners typically writes checks of $1M – $10M.
- What sectors does Motive Partners focus on?
- Motive Partners focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, InsurTech, SaaS.
- Where is Motive Partners located?
- Motive Partners is headquartered in New York, US.
- Does Motive Partners lead rounds?
- Yes, Motive Partners leads investment rounds.
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Co-investors · 21
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A fintech-focused investment firm that invests in financial technology, payments, insurance, capital markets infrastructure, and data/AI solutions serving the financial services industry.
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ACME Capital is a venture firm that backs deep-tech founders combining technical ambition with decisive execution, supporting companies through every phase of growth.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm that partners closely with founders on strategic and operational challenges to help build global companies.
Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm operating across major technology ecosystems worldwide, backing entrepreneurs from company formation onward and supporting a large global portfolio of startups, including many AI companies.
Unusual Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs enterprise founders from initial insight through market leadership, providing a proprietary playbook for finding product-market fit.
Entrée Capital is a venture capital firm run by former serial founders, managing $1.5bn across multiple funds with offices in Tel Aviv, London and New York.
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