# Motion Capital

> Motion Capital is a VC fund in Ponsonby backing Sustainability, Energy and Chemical. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ponsonby, New Zealand
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/motion-nz
- Website: https://www.motioncapital.co.nz

Motion Capital is a VC fund in Ponsonby focused on Sustainability and Energy. Motion Capital invests in technology firms that contribute to decarbonisation.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $924k–$4.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sustainability | 2 | 25% |
| Energy | 1 | 13% |
| Chemical | 1 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 13% |
| Energy Storage | 1 | 13% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Linca | Linca is a critical mineral recovery company that focuses on extracting lithium, nickel and cobalt from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. The company develops and commercialises a proprietary hydrometallurgical process to refine battery black mass into battery-grade metal salts. Linca designs modular, capital-efficient refining facilities intendedfor regional deployment alongside recyclers and industrial partners. Its technology targets onshore refining to support circular supply chains for electric vehicle and energy storage manufacturers. Linca works with automotive and recycling partners to demonstrate closed-loop battery material flows and to increase domestic availability of critical minerals. The company focuses on scaling its refining platform to match the growth of lithium-ion battery waste streams. | $2.9M | Seed | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| Hachiko | Hachiko is a software building platform that aims to help the battery portfolio owners, also the firm is for energy trading. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Factor | Factor uses AI to help power companies create bespoke pricing for large customers with complex needs. | $3M | Seed | Jul 18, 2025 |  |
| Dot Ingredients | Dot Ingredients operates a surfactant company designed to offer commercially viable particle surfactants. It produces cellulose from wood pulp, makes sustainable emulsifiers from renewable cellulose, and is able to not only cleanse hands, clothes, surfaces, and cars, but also protect crops, enhance food, color textiles, and flow into the oceans andsoil. |  | Pre-Seed | May 15, 2025 |  |
| Zincovery | Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant. | $6.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 16, 2024 |  |
| Miruku | Miruku is a molecular farming dairy startup developing advanced dairy proteins through plant technologies that hold the potential to produce animal-free milk proteins cost-effectively. | $4.9M | Seed | Feb 18, 2024 |  |
| Supa | Supa is a renewable energy company that produces smart AI technology to optimized and monitized power through a community grid. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Aspiring Materials | Aspiring Materials extracts mineral products from silicate rocks using magnesium hydroxide – one of the minerals in the rock – to produce a powdery material that can remove and solidify carbon dioxide at the source of emission, such as a factory’s exhaust system. | $924K | Seed | Dec 07, 2023 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Investible](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investible) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Outset Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outset-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Motion Capital invest in?

Motion Capital invests primarily in Sustainability, Energy and Chemical startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Motion Capital's check size?

Motion Capital typically joins rounds of $924k–$4.9M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Motion Capital participates in.

### When did Motion Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Motion Capital closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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