Motive Partners
VC Fund
New York, United States
Motive Partners is a sector-specialist investment platform with expertise, connectivity, and capabilities to create long-term value in financial technology businesses. It exists as an investment firm focused exclusively on financial technology to back and build the future of financial technology to positively transform markets, models, and society.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
- Total investments:
- 65
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
- Fund size:
- $87M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Motive Partners invests in
Stages Motive Partners invests in
Countries Motive Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 16 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $3.6M–$8.7M
- Series A
- $7M–$79M
- Private Equity
- $100M–$1B
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 21 (32%)
- FinTech 17 (26%)
- Software 10 (15%)
- Finance 8 (12%)
- Banking 6 (9%)
Stage
- Private Equity 12 (18%)
- Series A 10 (15%)
- Seed 4 (6%)
- Series B 4 (6%)
- Funding Round 4 (6%)
Country
- United States 15 (23%)
- Germany 7 (11%)
- United Kingdom 6 (9%)
- Switzerland 2 (3%)
- Italy 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Christopher Williams
Partner, Growth & Buyout
|
Partner, Growth & Buyout | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Michael Hayford
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Alastair Lukies
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andy Stewart
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Blythe Masters
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 16 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| FNZ is a FinTech firm that partners with financial institutions to enable them to provide multi-channel wealth management services to their clients across direct, intermediated, and workplace channels. FNZ develops long-term partnerships with customers to enable them to get to market with a market-leading digital proposition, transform theircustomer service offering, and grow assets under management across multiple distribution channels. | $450.6M / Private Equity / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Neno is a financial technology company that helps entrepreneurs start, manage, and scale their businesses without the administrative burden. The platform automates Dutch BV (private limited company) registration, business banking, corporate card issuance, invoicing, bookkeeping, payroll, and tax filing combining them into a single, streamlinedworkflow. Rather than juggling separate providers for each of these functions, founders get one integrated system paired with dedicated, personal accounting support. Neno's goal is to eliminate the hours founders typically lose to financial paperwork and follow-ups each month, letting them focus on growing their business instead of managing back-office operations. | $7.7M / Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Cordant serves as the connective operational fabric for modern financial infrastructure. Operating as a shared context layer above existing legacy systems, it enables institutions to analyze activity, surface underlying risk, and coordinate critical payment decisions in real time. The platform provides a single operational picture acrossdisconnected networks to help risk and treasury teams remain proactive rather than reactive. | $8M / Seed / Jul 21, 2026 | ||
| Warren seeks to empower individuals to take control of their financial futures by emphasizing the importance of employee well-being in the workplace. | $11.5M / Seed / Jun 18, 2026 | ||
| Mobius Life is an authorised unit-linked UK life insurance company. We are an independently owned business committed to helping UK institutional pension schemes and asset managers implement their investment strategies, and meet their investment objectives.We offer clients access to an investment platform operating within a life company structure,supported by a wide range of investment services. Uniquely, we do not represent proprietary funds and therefore avoid conflicts of interest associated with proprietary fund providers.Our services include investment administration, creation of blended and white-labelled funds, trigger monitoring, transition management and pension scheme reporting. Working closely with our clients, we create tailored investment solutions to fit their unique requirements.Trustees of UK pension schemes choose our investment platform to consolidate their assets, and access a broad range of funds in a highly governed structure.Consultants and advisers use our investment platform to focus on investment advice rather than implementation issues.Asset managers utilise our life company licence to create tax-efficient life-wrapped funds, which are attractive to UK pension schemes.Life insurance companies employ our investment administration services to reduce their operational and governance overheads. | Private Equity / Jun 11, 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 | ||
| Versana provides unprecedented transparency and real-time insight into loan-level details. They also provide loan syndication, corporate credit, debt, capital markets, leveraged finance, investment grade loans, high-yield loans, bank loans, financial technology, and data management. | $43M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 30, 2026 | ||
| Obin AI provides an agentic AI platform designed specifically for financial institutions to automate complex workflows. It deploys production-ready AI agents that integrate proprietary firm data, policies, and historical context for high-accuracy tasks. Obin AI uses orchestrated agents, workflow automation, and data integration to support middleand back office operations in financial institutions with compliance-aware processes and improved task execution. | $7M / Seed / Mar 18, 2026 | ||
| Steward.ai is a VC-backed fintech startup specializing in AI-powered compliance for investor onboarding, AML, and KYC processes. | $5M / Seed / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| See all 65 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Motive Partners invest in?
Motive Partners invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Private Equity and Series A stage. Most of the 65 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 Motive Partners's check size?
Motive Partners typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$8.7M at Seed, $7M–$79M at Series A and $100M–$1B at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Motive Partners participates in.
How do I contact Motive Partners?
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Who are the partners at Motive Partners?
The team at Motive Partners includes Christopher Williams (Partner, Growth & Buyout), Michael Hayford (Founding Partner) and Alastair Lukies (Founding Partner), among 16 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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