Motive Ventures

Motive Ventures is the early-stage investment arm of Motive Partners, focused on pre-seed through to Series A financial technology investments in North America and Europe (incl. Israel). Motive Ventures is backed by globally recognized tech entrepreneurs, industry veterans as well as leading institutions and venture investors. Motive Ventures is based in Berlin, London and New York.

Harsh Govil

Principal

Michael Hock

General Partner

34 past transactions

Warren

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Warren seeks to empower individuals to take control of their financial futures by emphasizing the importance of employee well-being in the workplace.

Zocks

Series A in 2025
Zocks is a real-time insight and privacy for enhanced video calls. It was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Flanks

Series B in 2025
Flanks is a Barcelona-based company specializing in developing an application programming interface (API) platform aimed at enhancing wealth management for various financial institutions, including banks and family offices. Founded in 2018, Flanks provides a comprehensive solution that simplifies and streamlines management tasks, allowing users to access and integrate raw banking data seamlessly. By leveraging its expertise in wealth management and technology, the company connects financial players with developers, enabling improved interactions between clients and financial investors. Flanks has successfully raised 9.8 million euros in funding to support its innovative approach to transforming the wealth management landscape.

Upvest

Series C in 2024
Upvest GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, specializes in providing a blockchain application programming interface (API) that allows businesses to create tailored investment experiences for their customers. The company’s single investment API and digital infrastructure enable financial institutions to seamlessly integrate and offer customized investment products, including the ability to configure savings plans and facilitate micro-investing through roundups. Upvest supports a variety of decentralized applications, tokenized platforms, exchanges, and wallet services, connecting them with major open-source protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The modular design of their offerings ensures that businesses can easily adapt and scale their investment solutions while receiving comprehensive support for licenses and vendor management, as well as back-office operations.

Synthera AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Synthera claims that it can overcome the drawbacks of traditional financial forecasting methods like Monte Carlo simulations by utilizing generative AI. The business thinks that these conventional approaches often overfit historical data, ignore non-linear correlations, and ignore dynamic market fluctuations, all of which increase investors' risk exposure.

Vega

Series A in 2024
Vega is to change wealth management through the application of cutting-edge technology. We aim to bring together the private and institutional sectors with a platform that streamlines wealth creation for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors by using our team's financial and technical knowledge.

Parto

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Parto services include business accounts, accounts with fiduciary custody, and payment cards for staff members and those receiving care. Using our proprietary software, which allows for automated billing of business expenses and digital custody fund administration.

MYNE

Series A in 2024
MYNE Homes specializes in a managed co-ownership model for vacation properties, enabling multiple owners to share the costs and responsibilities associated with holiday home ownership. By offering a prop-tech platform, the company facilitates the purchase and management of holiday homes both in Europe and internationally. MYNE ensures that properties are professionally designed and managed, while also providing concierge services to enhance the ownership experience. This innovative approach makes owning a vacation home more accessible and enjoyable, allowing individuals to find and acquire their ideal retreat at a more affordable price.

bunch

Series A in 2024
bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, digitizing entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration. Operating across legal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.

Novata

Venture Round in 2024
Novata is a developer of a technological platform that provides its clients with corporate governance measurement, data collection, and benchmarking. In addition to reporting tools, the company provides a streamlined reporting framework that consolidates metrics, a secure contributory database where private companies can report against the framework, and objective, data-driven benchmarking against both private and public company peers. This enables private businesses to gain key insights from their data and easily report to investors, regulators, and other stakeholders. Novata was established in 2021 in New York, United States by Alexander Friedman.

Alphastream

Seed Round in 2024
Alphastream is a technology company focused on transforming data access in the private and public debt markets to enhance decision-making. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Alphastream develops advanced data and technology platforms tailored for the financial services industry. Its solutions provide financial professionals with essential data and workflow services through cloud-based software, enabling users to manage complex information effectively and disseminate it to investors and analysts. This innovative approach positions Alphastream as a key player in improving data utilization in the financial sector.

NX

Series B in 2024
NX Technologies specializes in developing innovative technologies for the energy sector. The company has created an energy platform that focuses on managing and controlling wasted and inefficiently consumed energy in buildings and homes. By enhancing energy efficiency, NX Technologies aims to help clients reduce their energy expenditures while also contributing to environmental sustainability through the minimization of power waste.

Bezahl.de

Series B in 2024
Bezahl.de is a financial technology startup that focuses on automating and digitizing the receivables process. Its digital payment management platform streamlines tasks such as invoicing, dunning, and financial accounting, enabling real-time communication with customers regarding payment receipts. The platform enhances internal payment management for businesses, particularly in marketing and automotive sectors, by facilitating automated accounting, payment traceability, and contactless payment options. Additionally, Bezahl.de offers services for invoice digitization and embedded finance, ultimately helping organizations improve efficiency and conserve resources in their payment processes.

Navro

Venture Round in 2024
Navro specializes in providing payment and banking infrastructure tailored for software companies. The company has developed a fintech platform that enables brands to scale their payment operations on a global scale. Navro offers a range of services, including customizable checkout solutions, integration of various payment acceptance methods, local fund collection, and real-time payment stack management. This comprehensive approach allows businesses to efficiently manage their payments infrastructure, facilitating international growth and ensuring that companies can receive funds in their preferred methods.

Pliant

Series A in 2024
Pliant is a European fintech company that specializes in B2B payment solutions, offering a modular, API-first platform designed to streamline spending and enhance cash flow for businesses. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant caters to industries with complex payment needs, such as travel and fleet management. The platform provides companies with intuitive applications and APIs, allowing them to gain control, automate processes, and enjoy financial flexibility through extended credit lines. Pliant also partners with financial software platforms, ERP providers, and banks to enhance their credit card offerings via its embedded finance and white-label solutions. As a licensed e-money institution, Pliant issues Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies and operates in over 30 countries, supporting more than 3,500 businesses globally while simplifying payment processes.

DoorFeed

Seed Round in 2023
DoorFeed is a company that leverages advanced technology and local expertise to create and manage portfolios of single-family rental properties. By aggregating these properties into well-located, income-generating assets, DoorFeed enables investors to efficiently deploy capital and achieve stabilized income. Their offerings encompass various services, including deal sourcing, underwriting, asset transformation, and cash flow management and reporting. This comprehensive approach allows private investors, wealth managers, and institutional investors to build and manage residential investment portfolios effectively. For inquiries, potential clients can reach out via telephone or email.

Vega

Seed Round in 2023
Vega is to change wealth management through the application of cutting-edge technology. We aim to bring together the private and institutional sectors with a platform that streamlines wealth creation for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors by using our team's financial and technical knowledge.

TIFIN AMP

Series A in 2023
TIFIN AMP is an AI platform that will modernize distribution for asset management companies.

ThreatFabric

Seed Round in 2023
ThreatFabric provides banks with the expertise and tools to detect known and unknown threats to mitigate fraud and deflect risk. With ThreatFabric's custom analysis and detection capabilities, response to complex cyber threats has become simple and efficient. ThreatFabric has two solutions the Mobile Threat Intelligence (MTI) and Client Side Detection (CSD). MTI is a combination of dark-web investigations and malware analysis to empower and support users. CSD is a balanced solution of risk-status and malware detection.

Bezahl.de

Series A in 2023
Bezahl.de is a financial technology startup that focuses on automating and digitizing the receivables process. Its digital payment management platform streamlines tasks such as invoicing, dunning, and financial accounting, enabling real-time communication with customers regarding payment receipts. The platform enhances internal payment management for businesses, particularly in marketing and automotive sectors, by facilitating automated accounting, payment traceability, and contactless payment options. Additionally, Bezahl.de offers services for invoice digitization and embedded finance, ultimately helping organizations improve efficiency and conserve resources in their payment processes.

Februar

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Februar is an information technology company specializing in payment solutions for Web3 projects. It offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates seamless integration of fiat payments in various Web3 contexts. Its primary API solution enables users to directly purchase any token for their wallets, streamlining the investment process in decentralized finance (DeFi) projects by eliminating the need for cumbersome token swapping. Additionally, Februar provides a user-friendly on-ramp for wallets and checkout infrastructure tailored for non-fungible tokens, token sales, and in-game items. This flexibility allows Web3 companies to efficiently implement payment solutions and enhances the overall user experience.

bunch

Seed Round in 2022
bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, digitizing entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration. Operating across legal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.

Hero

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021 by Roland Jais-Nielsen, HERO aims to address the funding challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe. The company operates a financial platform that offers a diverse array of instantly available financing and payment options. By integrating banking, payments, and credit services, HERO seeks to resolve the working capital issues that hinder the growth and operational efficiency of digital sellers. Its mission is to enhance financial flexibility for European SMEs, ultimately disrupting the traditional financial landscape for these businesses.

MYNE

Seed Round in 2022
MYNE Homes specializes in a managed co-ownership model for vacation properties, enabling multiple owners to share the costs and responsibilities associated with holiday home ownership. By offering a prop-tech platform, the company facilitates the purchase and management of holiday homes both in Europe and internationally. MYNE ensures that properties are professionally designed and managed, while also providing concierge services to enhance the ownership experience. This innovative approach makes owning a vacation home more accessible and enjoyable, allowing individuals to find and acquire their ideal retreat at a more affordable price.

Getquin

Series A in 2022
getquin is a comprehensive platform designed to assist individuals in tracking their net worth and managing their investment portfolios. It allows users to monitor and analyze a variety of assets in one centralized location, facilitating informed investment decisions. The platform also fosters interaction among a community of investors, enabling users to share insights and strategies. By providing tools for continuous oversight of investments, getquin aims to enhance the investment experience and promote better financial outcomes for its users.

Nelly

Seed Round in 2022
Nelly provides a tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments. It creates the basis for stress-free and clear work in your practice by drastically reducing the administrative effort for doctors, MFAs, ZFAs, and patients with Nelly. 90% of all healthcare professionals perceive bureaucracy and administrative burdens as the biggest problem in the workplace. The company's mission is to reduce the administrative effort in the healthcare sector by simplifying documentation and payment processes in order to make the practice visit more patient- and employee-friendly.

luca

Seed Round in 2022
Luca is a platform that allows users to find and book restaurants, cafés, and other locations. Luca provides people with secure and effective technologies that they can use to simplify their daily lives, work, and digital exchanges with one another, while also giving them complete control over their data and digital life. The Luca app focuses on the digitization of the catering industry, from checking in to ordering to paying.

Bezahl.de

Seed Round in 2022
Bezahl.de is a financial technology startup that focuses on automating and digitizing the receivables process. Its digital payment management platform streamlines tasks such as invoicing, dunning, and financial accounting, enabling real-time communication with customers regarding payment receipts. The platform enhances internal payment management for businesses, particularly in marketing and automotive sectors, by facilitating automated accounting, payment traceability, and contactless payment options. Additionally, Bezahl.de offers services for invoice digitization and embedded finance, ultimately helping organizations improve efficiency and conserve resources in their payment processes.

Nelly

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nelly provides a tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments. It creates the basis for stress-free and clear work in your practice by drastically reducing the administrative effort for doctors, MFAs, ZFAs, and patients with Nelly. 90% of all healthcare professionals perceive bureaucracy and administrative burdens as the biggest problem in the workplace. The company's mission is to reduce the administrative effort in the healthcare sector by simplifying documentation and payment processes in order to make the practice visit more patient- and employee-friendly.
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