# Motive Partners

> Motive Partners is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 60 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 60
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 58%
- Fund size: $2.5B
- Last fund: Jul 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/motive-partners/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MOTIVE_PARTNERS
- Website: https://www.motivepartners.com

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.6M–$8.7M |
| Series A | $7M–$79M |
| Private Equity | $100M–$1B |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 21 | 35% |
| FinTech | 17 | 28% |
| Software | 10 | 17% |
| Finance | 8 | 13% |
| Banking | 6 | 10% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 12 | 20% |
| Series A | 10 | 17% |
| Seed | 4 | 7% |
| Series B | 4 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 7% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 25% |
| Germany | 7 | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 10% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 3% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Williams | Partner, Growth & Buyout | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-m-williams |
| Michael Hayford | Founding Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-d-hayford |
| Alastair Lukies | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alastair-lukies |
| Andy Stewart | Founding Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-stewart-c925 |
| Blythe Masters | Founding Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blythe-masters |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cordant | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Mobius Life | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Finperks | Finperks provides a unified API platform that orchestrates prepaid products like gift cards, cashback, employee benefits, and crypto off-ramps for banks, fintechs, HR platforms, and crypto providers. | $3.9M | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Monnai | Monnai provides a global infrastructure that delivers more than 500+ insights to financial organizations to make more accurate and informed decisions throughout the lifecycle of their customers. Through a single API, fintech firms get access to a global integrated platform that helps them navigate the four key pillars of onboarding, trust and fraudrisk, credit underwriting and debt collections. | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 14, 2026 |  |

10 of 60 investments shown.

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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 60 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?

Public channels for Motive Partners 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 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 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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