Motivate Venture Capital
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Motivate Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL. MVC invests in incredible founders with strong domain knowledge building new companies with very high growth potential in large and growing markets. Primary verticals of focus include Fintech, Insurtech, Payments, B2B software, B2B marketplaces, Crypto, DeFi, Blockchain, andweb3.
- Total investments:
- 98
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Motivate Venture Capital invests in
Stages Motivate Venture Capital invests in
Countries Motivate Venture Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $900k–$7.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $675k–$3.4M
- Series A
- $9M–$19M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 25 (26%)
- Financial Services 16 (16%)
- FinTech 13 (13%)
- Information Technology 11 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 41 (42%)
- Pre-Seed 25 (26%)
- Series A 8 (8%)
- Funding Round 6 (6%)
- Convertible Note 5 (5%)
Country
- United States 62 (63%)
- Canada 5 (5%)
- Switzerland 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Courtney Trunk
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Wieland
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 32 | Find email | |
Jackson Bubala
Senior Associate
|
Senior Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lauren DeLuca
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 52 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| FutureSports is a new index provider that transforms professional and college sports data into rule-based financial benchmarks. | Seed / Jul 23, 2026 | ||
| Veylan is an AI powered platform for the advertising industry that offers brand intelligence and data unification services. | Seed / Jul 02, 2026 | ||
| Rowan is an AI-powered platform that provides specialised tools to automate data organisation and professionalise small business succession. | $3.3M / Seed / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| Ammobia is a chemical manufacturing company that specializes in the clean production of ammonia through renewable hydrogen and air. | $7.5M / Seed / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| Cyphlens provides software for payment security, fraud prevention, and mobile-based decryption for secure transactions. | $3.8M / Seed / Dec 11, 2025 | ||
| VeroSkills retrains refugees into AI/Automation/Software Engineering careers through a self-paced program combined with human and AI tutoring. | $5.3M / Oct 29, 2025 | ||
| Mahalo is a software company that provides an end-to-end post-purchase experience (PPX) platform specifically designed for small and midsize manufacturers. | $2.6M / Pre-Seed / Jun 25, 2025 | ||
| Obviant is a data intelligence platform to simplify defense acquisition & GTM. | $7.2M / Seed / Jun 24, 2025 | ||
| Mahalo Software delivers Product Ownership Experiences. | $2.6M / Pre-Seed / Jun 24, 2025 | ||
| Finofo is a financial technology company that enables organisations to manage their foreign exchange requirements and exposure from a single integrated platform. Finofo’s technology empowers financial decision makers to measure and understand currency risk in their operations, perform stress tests on their businesses, and hedge currency risk withhyper-individualised strategy recommendations. The technology issues real-time alerts to inform financial decision makers of suitable adjustments to their hedging strategies based on their business’ unique risk objectives and live market movements. Finofo aims to make cross-border payments and foreign exchange risk management transparent, accessible and a real-time process. | $3.3M / Seed / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| See all 98 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Motivate Venture Capital invest in?
Motivate Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 98 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Motivate Venture Capital's check size?
Motivate Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $900k–$7.5M at Seed, $675k–$3.4M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$19M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Motivate Venture Capital participates in.
How do I contact Motivate Venture Capital?
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Who are the partners at Motivate Venture Capital?
The team at Motivate Venture Capital includes Courtney Trunk (Associate), David Wieland (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Jackson Bubala (Senior Associate). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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