Motive Partners

Motive organizes around a single integrated platform with a venture arm and a growth-and-buyout practice. The venture team targets pre-seed to Series A founders, typically leading or co-leading checks of $1M–10M. The growth-and-buyout team executes larger-scale platform investments and legacy transformations across banking, payments, insurance, wealth, and capital markets. Both draw on the firm's centralized operational group, Create, to embed execution capacity inside portfolio companies.

Create is Motive's in-house value-creation unit, staffed with operators who specialize in go-to-market, AI and data, technology, operations, and organizational design. Unlike a traditional advisory board, Create participates from investment thesis development through exit. Its practitioners work inside portfolio companies alongside management to underwrite transformation plans at diligence and then drive execution post-close — functioning more like an embedded consultancy than an oversight function.

Motive invests across six core financial-technology and services verticals: wealth and asset management, banking and payments, insurance, capital markets, AI/data and analytics, and technology-enabled business services. The firm's portfolio reflects this concentration, with named positions in companies such as FNZ, Dun & Bradstreet, CAIS, Insurify, Avaloq, and With Intelligence.

Motive continues to deploy actively across its venture and growth-and-buyout strategies. In April 2026, the firm disclosed new investments in Valstro, Versana, LawX, and Alchelyst, adding to a portfolio that has grown to more than 60 companies since 2016. Its pace of recent venture additions — including Synthera AI, Obin AI, Monnai, and Electric Mind — indicates consistent activity across early-stage and later-stage mandates.

Motive Partners operates from its headquarters in New York and invests across North America and Europe. Its portfolio companies are concentrated in the US, UK, Germany, and Benelux, with additional exposure in France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, and Canada. The firm sources deals continent-wide but does not publicly list additional offices outside New York.