# Motivate Venture Capital

> Motivate Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Financial Services. See 97 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 97
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last fund: Dec 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/motivatevc/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/motivatevc
- Website: https://motivate.vc/about/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $900k–$7.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $675k–$3.4M |
| Series A | $9M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 25 | 26% |
| Financial Services | 16 | 16% |
| FinTech | 13 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 10% |

112 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 41 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 24 | 25% |
| Series A | 8 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 5 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 62 | 64% |
| Canada | 5 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Courtney Trunk | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courtney-trunk |
| David Wieland | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 32 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-wieland |
| Jackson Bubala | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jackson-bubala |
| Lauren DeLuca | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 49 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-deluca-3ac9 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FutureSports | FutureSports is a new index provider that transforms professional and college sports data into rule-based financial benchmarks. |  | Seed | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Veylan | Veylan is an AI powered platform for the advertising industry that offers brand intelligence and data unification services. |  | Seed | Jul 02, 2026 |  |
| Rowan | 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 | 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 | Cyphlens provides software for payment security, fraud prevention, and mobile-based decryption for secure transactions. | $3.8M | Seed | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| VeroSkills | 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 | 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 | Obviant is a data intelligence platform to simplify defense acquisition & GTM. | $7.2M | Seed | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Mahalo Software | Mahalo Software delivers Product Ownership Experiences. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Finofo | 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 |  |

10 of 97 investments shown.

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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 97 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?

Public channels for Motivate Venture Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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?

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