# The Motley Fool

> The Motley Fool is a VC fund in Alexandria backing SaaS and FinTech. See 5 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Alexandria, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2017
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-motley-fool/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/themotleyfool
- Website: http://fool.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/themotleyfool

The Motley Fool is a VC fund in Alexandria focused on SaaS and FinTech. Founded in 1993 in Alexandria, Va., by brothers David and Tom Gardner, The Motley Fool is a multimedia financial-services company dedicated to building the world's greatest investment community. Reaching millions of people each month through its website, books, newspaper column, television appearances, and subscription newsletter services, TheMotley Fool champions shareholder values and advocates tirelessly for the individual investor. The company's name was taken from Shakespeare, whose wise fools both instructed and amused, and could speak the truth to the king -- without getting their heads lopped off.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for The Motley Fool. Shizune tracks 9 team members at The Motley Fool. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/the-motley-fool?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Consumer | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Analytics | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Ireland | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maggie Dorn | Chief Network Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maggie-dorn |
| Alli Berry | Editorial & SEO Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alli-berry |
| Austin Grandt | Software Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-grandt |
| Brian Orelli | Author & Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-orelli |
| Denise Coursey | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denise-coursey |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MyWallSt | MyWallSt is a mobile-led company, here to guide and support people in their investing life. Their stock knowledge is backed by the expertise that produced a portfolio with an annual return in excess of 24.4 percent per annum for 11 years, and 44 percent for the last five years.Make your money work for you. Anyone can buy a stock, but MyWallSt arecreating a community of successful investors. They are here to guide people towards building a successful long-term portfolio.Access their showroom of handpicked stocks. Their picks have been thoroughly reviewed by their analyst team. Since December 2016, their Stock of The Month selections are up 54 percent vs the S&P 500's return of 28 percent over the same period. Stats from December 22, 2016 to June 13, 2018.Cut through the market noise to the news that matters. Their analyst team spends hours every day selecting the news stories that matter most to long-term investors. They also provide more expert insights and opinions on becoming a successful investor. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 20, 2017 | https://mywallst.com |
| WorkTango | At WorkTango, we’re revolutionizing how the world’s most forward-thinking companies engage and inspire their people. We offer the only holistic Employee Experience Platform built for the modern workplace that enables meaningful recognition and rewards, offers actionable insights through employee surveys, and supports alignment through goal settingand feedback.WorkTango is built for the workplace we all want to be a part of – where priorities become clear, achievements are celebrated, and employees have a voice. Learn more at worktango.com. | $6.5M | Series A | Jan 31, 2017 | https://www.worktango.com/ |
| Territory Foods | Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by aproprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating.Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA. | $5M | Seed | Feb 04, 2016 | http://www.territoryfoods.com/ |
| MyWallSt | MyWallSt is a mobile-led company, here to guide and support people in their investing life. Their stock knowledge is backed by the expertise that produced a portfolio with an annual return in excess of 24.4 percent per annum for 11 years, and 44 percent for the last five years.Make your money work for you. Anyone can buy a stock, but MyWallSt arecreating a community of successful investors. They are here to guide people towards building a successful long-term portfolio.Access their showroom of handpicked stocks. Their picks have been thoroughly reviewed by their analyst team. Since December 2016, their Stock of The Month selections are up 54 percent vs the S&P 500's return of 28 percent over the same period. Stats from December 22, 2016 to June 13, 2018.Cut through the market noise to the news that matters. Their analyst team spends hours every day selecting the news stories that matter most to long-term investors. They also provide more expert insights and opinions on becoming a successful investor. | $2.2M | Seed | Dec 16, 2015 | https://mywallst.com |
| Shea Radiance | Shea Radiance believe that a really great jar of cream can change the world. What started out as my family's search for natural and effective products to address their struggles with dry and eczema prone skin, led us to create a line to truly natural and luxurious hair and body care products, using shea butter as the key ingredient.Theirquest led us back to West Africa, where the shea trees grow and they found more than a solution to dry skin. Shea butter has been used for centuries in Africa for food and beauty. The shea fruit fall from the tree and is handpicked by African women.In West Africa, Shea butter is called Women's Gold because the proceeds from processing shea nuts into butter is money women get to keep for themselves. Women use these funds to pay school fees, clothe and provide medicine for their children.Women have a universal need to feel empowered to take care of their families and the women in Africa are no different.They have partnered with women shea producers to source the shea butter they use in their premium line of products. These women also share their insights and wisdom on the uses of shea butter and this inspires us to create more innovative products based on their traditional wisdom.What makes Shea Radiance products truly special is the higher amount of shea butter they use in their formulations. The higher percentage makes the products effective and gives their customers the desired results for their hair and skin. Over 8 years of experience formulating with natural ingredients allows us to combine the best of nature and science. They believe that exceptional ingredients deliver maximum performance.The high percentage of shea butter in their products also means that they purchase more shea butter which brings more money to women and their communities.They believe that when you empower a woman, you strengthen a family and transform a community, and that is how a really great jar of cream can change the world. |  | Convertible Note | Aug 18, 2015 | http://www.shearadiance.com |

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## Co-investors
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capital Factory Management LLC.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-factory) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LDR Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ldr-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Silverton Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silverton-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Social Starts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-starts) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does The Motley Fool invest in?

The Motley Fool invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Consumer startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What round sizes does The Motley Fool invest in?

The Motley Fool typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$5M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not The Motley Fool's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds The Motley Fool took part in.

### How do I contact The Motley Fool?

Public channels for The Motley Fool 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 The Motley Fool?

The team at The Motley Fool includes Maggie Dorn (Chief Network Officer), Alli Berry (Editorial & SEO Lead) and Austin Grandt (Software Engineer), among 9 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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