Michael Hock
General Partner @ Motive Ventures
Berlin, Germany
Michael Hock is a seed investor at Motive Ventures in Berlin focused on Financial Services and Banking. Michael Hock is Partner and Head of Portfolio Management at Motive Ventures, based out of the Berlin office. Michael’s responsibility includes new venture investments, tracking of performance across portfolio companies, as well as value creation and exit strategies for the active portfolio. Prior to joining Motive, Michael co-founded embedded/capital, a Berlin based early-stage financial technology investment firm, which was acquired by Motive Partners in February 2023, to form the early-stage arm of the Motive Partners platform. Since 2017, Michael was Managing Director at finleap and incharge of steering portfolio growth and professionalizing group operations. Michael led the exits of finleap portfolio companies including the majority acquisition of PAIR Finance by PollenStreet Capital and the sale of Penta to the European market leader Qonto.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
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Industries Michael Hock invests in
Stages Michael Hock invests in
Countries Michael Hock invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $5.7M–$24M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.9M–$7M
- Series A
- $9M–$43M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (22%)
- Banking 2 (11%)
- FinTech 2 (11%)
- Payments 2 (11%)
- Information Technology 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (28%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (28%)
- Series A 3 (17%)
- Series B 3 (17%)
Country
- Germany 7 (39%)
- Belgium 1 (6%)
- South Korea 1 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
- The Netherlands 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Limetax is a technology-driven tax advisory group that builds an agentic-first accounting and tax network by partnering with established tax firms. The company provides a proprietary AI software platform that integrates directly into traditional accounting infrastructure, allowing local advisors to automate routine workflows and focus on personalclient advisory. | $7M / Pre-Seed / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| LawX is a legal technology company providing solutions to streamline legal processes and improve efficiency for law firms. | $8.7M / Seed / May 18, 2026 | ||
| Warren seeks to empower individuals to take control of their financial futures by emphasizing the importance of employee well-being in the workplace. | $3.3M / Pre-Seed / Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| 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. | $1.9M / Pre-Seed / Dec 03, 2024 | ||
| MYNE Homes is a digital co-ownership platform for vacation properties. MYNE Homes was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $43.1M / Series A / Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| NX Technologies develops technologies for the energy sector. | $23.9M / Series B / Mar 21, 2024 | ||
| bezahl.de automates, digitizes, and streamlines the entire receivables process, from invoicing and dunning to financial accounting booking. Bezahl is a financial technology startup. | $24.1M / Series B / Mar 20, 2024 | ||
| Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering. | $6.2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 19, 2024 | ||
| 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 SideDetection (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. | $12.5M / Seed / May 11, 2023 | ||
| bezahl.de automates, digitizes, and streamlines the entire receivables process, from invoicing and dunning to financial accounting booking. Bezahl is a financial technology startup. | $11.6M / Series A / Mar 07, 2023 | ||
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Co-Investors
About 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 isbased in Berlin, London and New York.
Motive Ventures Contacts
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Edoardo E. Ermotti
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Julia Hubo
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What does Michael Hock invest in?
Michael Hock invests primarily in Financial Services, Banking and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Michael Hock invest in?
Michael Hock typically joins rounds of $5.7M–$24M at Seed, $1.9M–$7M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$43M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Michael Hock's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Michael Hock took part in.
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When did Michael Hock last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Michael Hock closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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