Motivate Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

66

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

40

Rounds per year

13.20

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.38

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsSaaSCyber SecurityData IntegrationMarketplaceBlockchain

Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Hospitality, Travel Accommodations. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Frontdesk.

The typical startup value when the investment from Motivate Venture Capital is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Motivate Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Marc Lasry, Lancaster Investment Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sand Hill Angels, Limited liability company, La Macchia Group.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechBlockchain/Crypto/Web3B2B/EnterpriseAI/Big DataEcommerce
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
250K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 81000000
Fund raised date
2023-11-16

Analytics

Total investments
66
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
13.20
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (24)
  • Financial Services (13)
  • SaaS (9)
  • FinTech (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (61)
  • Canada (3)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
3
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.88

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kangarootime 25 Oct 2021 Software, EdTech, Child Care Early Stage Venture 6M United States, New York, Buffalo
Abstract 04 Aug 2022 Internet, Software, SaaS, Apps, Product Design, Web Design, GovTech, Web Apps, UX Design Seed 2M United States, California, Los Angeles

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