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Motive Partners

Founders Alastair Lukies CBE Alberto Corvo Andy Stewart Etienne Castiaux Frank Martire III Michael Hayford Rob Heyvaert Stephen Daffron

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$93M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 3.50
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 8
Key employees 21

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Banking
  • Finance
Summary

In 2016 was created Motive Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Motive Partners, startups are often financed by Sir Charles Colthurst, Pearse Mee, Exponential Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Warburg Pincus, Wafra Investment Advisory Group, The Royal Bank of Scotland.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as FinTech, Financial Services. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight QOMPLX, Global Shares, LMRKTS. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Alastair Lukies CBE, Alberto Corvo, Andy Stewart, Etienne Castiaux, Frank Martire III, Michael Hayford, Rob Heyvaert, Stephen Daffron. Besides them, we counted 21 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Motive Partners performs on 46 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xaver

$6M19 Mar 2024 Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Nelly

Financial Services
Insurance
Medical
Payments
$17M15 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Penzilla GmbH

FinTech
Software
$2M08 May 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Triver

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$9M19 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Paytrix

Financial Services
$18M29 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

bezahl

Financial Services
Mobile Payments
Payments
$12M07 Mar 2023 Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Insurify

Artificial Intelligence
Auto Insurance
Home Services
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Price Comparison
$100M01 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Pollinate

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$50M18 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Pollinate

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$82M31 Oct 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Insurify Secures $100M in Series B financing led by Motive Partners

– Insurify, America’s highest-rated virtual insurance agent and comparison platform, announced it has closed $100M in Series B funding led by Motive Partners.
– The round included participation from existing investors Viola FinTech, MassMutual Ventures, Nationwide, Hearst Ventures, Moneta VC, as well as new investors Viola Growth and Fort Ross Ventures.
– This is the most recent development for the fast-growing company, which has raised a total of $128M to date, has grown its new and recurring revenue by 6x since its Series A funding in Q4 of 2019, and has achieved a CAGR of 151% for the last three years.

Pollinate Raises $50M in Series C Funding

– Pollinate is a global software business that partners with banks to extend relationships with their business customers.
– The company raised $50m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from all existing investors, including NatWest Group, Mastercard, National Australia Bank (NAB), EFM Asset Management, and Motive Partners.
– The new investment will be used to further expand the company’s global operations.

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Total investments 28
Average round size 93M
Rounds per year 3.50
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xaver

$6M19 Mar 2024 Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Nelly

Financial Services
Insurance
Medical
Payments
$17M15 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Penzilla GmbH

FinTech
Software
$2M08 May 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Triver

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$9M19 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Paytrix

Financial Services
$18M29 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

bezahl

Financial Services
Mobile Payments
Payments
$12M07 Mar 2023 Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Insurify

Artificial Intelligence
Auto Insurance
Home Services
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Price Comparison
$100M01 Sep 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Pollinate

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$50M18 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Pollinate

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$82M31 Oct 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
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