Motive Partners

Motive Partners is a private equity firm founded in 2016, with its headquarters in New York and an additional office in London. The firm specializes in investing in technology-enabled companies that serve the financial services sector, concentrating on financial and business services technology across North America and Western Europe. By targeting innovative companies in this space, Motive Partners aims to support and enhance the growth of firms that are transforming the financial landscape.

Syed Ahsan

Associate

Linda Blanken

Associate

Bob Brown

Founding Partner

Etienne Castiaux

Founding Partner, Motive Labs and CTO

Neil Cochrane

Partner

Stephen C. Daffron

Co-Founder, Industry Partner

Emma Glyn

Senior Associate

Thomas Harris

Director

Heyvaert, Paul Luc Robert

Founder, Managing Partner

Jake Janjigian

Senior Associate

Scott Kauffman

Founding Partner

Blythe S. Masters

FOUNDING PARTNER

Sam Nayden

Principal

Worth Newman

Vice President

James O'Neill

Founding Partner

Luc Philippi

Partner

Raunak S. Sainani

Senior Associate

Ashvin Sinnathamby

Senior Associate

Sunny Tam

Principal, Finance and Compliance

Miguel Tejeda

Vice President

Sam Tidswell-Norrish

Principal, Business Development

Kristy Trieste

Partner, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer

Swathi Vankayalapati

Associate

Matthew Walker

Principal

Jeff Yabuki

Chairman and Founding Partner

Bradford Yankiver

Principal, Investor Relations and Chief of Staff

44 past transactions

LMRKTS

Acquisition in 2017
LMRKTS brings equilibrium to the market – a fresh approach providing multi lateral and dimensional portfolio compression in a way that drives down exposures and reduces costs for every participant in different asset classes. Paid only on the completion of a successful compression round, LMRKTS’ compensation is a function of the total cost reduced.

Global Shares

Acquisition in 2018
Global Shares is a leading independent provider of equity compensation software and management solutions for companies and their employees worldwide. Equity Compensation can be complicated and Global Shares has developed a market-leading technology platform 100% in-house. Combined with unrivalled service from our team of qualified equity experts we deliver a range of bespoke equity compensation solutions to our clients globally. With offices in the US, South America, the UK, Ireland, Europe & Asia, we help private and public companies at every stage of the life cycle, from fast growing start-ups to truly global organisations, with share plans in dozens of countries and tens of thousands of participants. Our Clients include the largest private company in the US, FTSE 100 companies, Fortune 100 companies, EuroStoxx 50 companies listed on multiple exchanges worldwide - NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, Bovespa, EuroNext Amsterdam, Helsinki, Milan, Oslo, Taipei, Tadawul and Tokyo exchanges.

Dun & Bradstreet

Acquisition in 2019
Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB), the world’s leading source of global business information, knowledge and insight, has been enabling companies to Decide with Confidence for 171 years. D&B’s global commercial database contains more than 220 million business records. The database is enhanced by D&B’s proprietary DUNSRight® Quality Process, which transforms the enormous amount of data collected daily into decision-ready insight. Through the D&B Worldwide Network – an unrivaled alliance of D&B and leading business information providers around the world – customers gain access to the world’s largest and highest quality global commercial business information database. Customers use D&B Risk Management Solutions to mitigate risk, increase cash flow and drive increased profitability, D&B Sales & Marketing Solutions to analyse markets, locate prospects and increase revenue from new and existing customers; D&B Learning Solutions to facilitate professional growth and excellence among their executives and D&B Economic Analysis Group to derive pragmatic and solution-oriented analyses of strategic economic and business developments, thereby aiding informed decision making. D&B featured on FORTUNE Magazine's Most Admired Companies Industry List for four consecutive years (2006 -2009), ranking first in the Financial Data Services category. D&B ranked first in the areas of employee talent, financial soundness, long-term investment, quality of management and use of corporate assets. In 2011, D&B featured on the World’s Most Ethical Companies list in the Business Services category by Ethisphere. The World’s Most Ethical Companies designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business “ethically” and translate those words into action.

Bindable

Private Placement in 2018
Bindable delivers solutions for modern insurance distribution. We offer a full stack of technology-enabled services to insurance companies, intermediaries, financial institutions, affinity groups and other trusted brands. We enable strategic partners to better engage their customers through insurance distribution, product diversification and market expansion. Whether you're a brand looking to offer insurance products to your customers or an insurance company trying to streamline your partner distribution, Bindable is here to make things better.

QOMPLX, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
QOMPLX, Inc., an analytics and insurance software company, provides a human-and-AI-powered decision platform to integrate disparate data sources inside and outside the enterprise into a unified analytics infrastructure. It offers ACDP, a cloud-based solution for cyber security, which offers monitoring and protection, adaptive incident response, and risk management and optimization; Advanced Insurance Decision Platform (AIDP), an optimization tool for insurance industry, which provides contract evaluation, risk and value addition modeling, risk transfer costs, and regulatory capital monitoring; and Quantitative Trading Decision Platform (QTDP), offers trading strategies with market awareness, sentiment, proprietary data, and fundamentals in near real-time to traders. The company also provides solutions for data storage and management, planning and simulation, orchestration and transformation, visualization, and decision platforms. QOMPLX, Inc. was formerly known as Fractal Industries, Inc. and changed its name to QOMPLX, Inc. in July 2019. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Reston, Virginia. It has additional offices in Denver, Colorado; and Oxford and London, United Kingdom.

TIFIN

Series D in 2022
The Tifin Group invests in technology companies that are reshaping the interaction between investors and investments. The Tifin Group focuses on investment management, investment advisory, and personal finance. The Tifin Group builds companies from the ground up, or invest at an early stage.

FNZ

Private Equity Round in 2022
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 their customer service offering, and grow assets under management across multiple distribution channels.

QOMPLX

Series A in 2019
QOMPLX applies artificial intelligence to solve complex and real-world problems at scale. Its Human+AI operating system, Q:OS, blends capabilities ranging from data handling, analytics, and reporting to advanced algorithms, simulations, and machine learning, enabling decisions that are just-in-time, just-in-place, and just-in-context. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

Lucht Probst Associates

Private Placement in 2018
Founded in 1999, LPA has been an industry leader in the Capital Markets Technology and Advisory space for two decades, effectively combining innovative software solutions with deep subject matter expertise. As the European market leader in capital markets technology solutions, LPA has a proven track record of working with international banks and financial institutions to improve the experience for clients, drive internal efficiencies and increase profitability to ultimately deliver against stated business strategies.

Backbase

Private Equity Round in 2022
Backbase is doing very well. They are one of the leaders in one of the hottest markets at the moment: fintech, and the vendor of choice for 75+ banks across the globe, impacting 90+ million end-customers they serve on a daily basis. Backbase empowers financial institutions to become digital leaders, enabling them to place digital at the core of their business model. They software, the Backbase Omni-Channel Banking Platform, unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players into a seamless customer experience, across all digital touchpoints.

Dun & Bradstreet

Private Equity Round in 2019
Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB), the world’s leading source of global business information, knowledge and insight, has been enabling companies to Decide with Confidence for 171 years. D&B’s global commercial database contains more than 220 million business records. The database is enhanced by D&B’s proprietary DUNSRight® Quality Process, which transforms the enormous amount of data collected daily into decision-ready insight. Through the D&B Worldwide Network – an unrivaled alliance of D&B and leading business information providers around the world – customers gain access to the world’s largest and highest quality global commercial business information database. Customers use D&B Risk Management Solutions to mitigate risk, increase cash flow and drive increased profitability, D&B Sales & Marketing Solutions to analyse markets, locate prospects and increase revenue from new and existing customers; D&B Learning Solutions to facilitate professional growth and excellence among their executives and D&B Economic Analysis Group to derive pragmatic and solution-oriented analyses of strategic economic and business developments, thereby aiding informed decision making. D&B featured on FORTUNE Magazine's Most Admired Companies Industry List for four consecutive years (2006 -2009), ranking first in the Financial Data Services category. D&B ranked first in the areas of employee talent, financial soundness, long-term investment, quality of management and use of corporate assets. In 2011, D&B featured on the World’s Most Ethical Companies list in the Business Services category by Ethisphere. The World’s Most Ethical Companies designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business “ethically” and translate those words into action.

Trumid

Venture Round in 2021
Trumid Financial LLC designs and develops solutions for electronic trading. The company operates Trumid Market Center, an electronic credit trading network and market intelligence platform for corporate bonds; and Trumid Bond Stream, a tool that streams TRACE pricing data on trader’s watch list. In addition, it operates Trumid Labs that uses data science to manage the network and offer bond price lookup services. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York. Trumid Financial LLC operates as a subsidiary of Trumid Holdings LLC.

Lucht Probst Associates

Acquisition in 2018
Founded in 1999, LPA has been an industry leader in the Capital Markets Technology and Advisory space for two decades, effectively combining innovative software solutions with deep subject matter expertise. As the European market leader in capital markets technology solutions, LPA has a proven track record of working with international banks and financial institutions to improve the experience for clients, drive internal efficiencies and increase profitability to ultimately deliver against stated business strategies.

InvestCloud

Private Equity Round in 2021
Headquartered in Los Angeles, InvestCloud empowers investors and managers with a single version of the integrated truth through its unique digital platform. Today the InvestCloud platform supports over $1.7 trillion of assets across 670 institutional customers. InvestCloud creates custom solutions for better decision-making. From Client Communications (Client Portals and Reports) and Client Management (Advisor Portals and CRM) to Digital Warehousing, Data Analytics and Accounting, InvestCloud offers first-class digital investment platforms for successful investing that are rapid to deploy and hyper-modular. Customer segments include wealth managers, institutional investors, asset managers, family offices, asset services companies, financial platforms, and banks. Unleash your data potential.

Global Shares

Private Equity Round in 2018
Global Shares is a leading independent provider of equity compensation software and management solutions for companies and their employees worldwide. Equity Compensation can be complicated and Global Shares has developed a market-leading technology platform 100% in-house. Combined with unrivalled service from our team of qualified equity experts we deliver a range of bespoke equity compensation solutions to our clients globally. With offices in the US, South America, the UK, Ireland, Europe & Asia, we help private and public companies at every stage of the life cycle, from fast growing start-ups to truly global organisations, with share plans in dozens of countries and tens of thousands of participants. Our Clients include the largest private company in the US, FTSE 100 companies, Fortune 100 companies, EuroStoxx 50 companies listed on multiple exchanges worldwide - NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, Bovespa, EuroNext Amsterdam, Helsinki, Milan, Oslo, Taipei, Tadawul and Tokyo exchanges.

Pollinate

Series A in 2019
Pollinate Networks Ltd. provides a cloud based platform for reinventing merchant acquiring for banks. It offers banks reclaim their place in the payments value chain. It provides digital and data driven experiences for merchants and consumers. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Lucht Probst Associates

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
Founded in 1999, LPA has been an industry leader in the Capital Markets Technology and Advisory space for two decades, effectively combining innovative software solutions with deep subject matter expertise. As the European market leader in capital markets technology solutions, LPA has a proven track record of working with international banks and financial institutions to improve the experience for clients, drive internal efficiencies and increase profitability to ultimately deliver against stated business strategies.

Splitit

Post in 2023
Splitit Payments Ltd, a technology company, provides credit card based installment solutions to businesses and retailers in Israel and internationally. Its Splitit payment platform operates as an intermediate layer between a merchant’s platform and its existing payment gateway. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Nelly

Series A in 2023
Nelly provides a tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments. It creates the basis for stress-free and clear work in your practice by drastically reducing the administrative effort for doctors, MFAs, ZFAs, and patients with Nelly. 90% of all healthcare professionals perceive bureaucracy and administrative burdens as the biggest problem in the workplace. The company's mission is to reduce the administrative effort in the healthcare sector by simplifying documentation and payment processes in order to make the practice visit more patient- and employee-friendly.

Navro

Series A in 2023
Paytrix provides payment and banking infrastructure for software companies. Paytrix builds a regulated curation layer into their network, integrating financial infrastructure to allow companies to immediately grow their payments operations internationally.

bezahl.de

Series A in 2023
NX Technologies provides digital and automated payment management and solutions.

Credix

Series A in 2022
CREDIX is a decentralized credit platform that gives borrowers in emerging countries access to previously untapped capital. Our blockchain protocol provides credit lines to high-quality borrowers with an attractive yield for investors globally.

Accordion

Secondary Market in 2022
Accordion is the go-to partner to the private equity community – driving value creation through financial consulting services and portfolio operations technology. As the only firm focused exclusively within the Office of the CFO, our consultants work alongside Sponsor management teams to support initiatives across the entire finance function. While their engagements span all industries and sizes, our focus is consistent: flawless execution. They’ve channeled years of execution and insight into portfolio operations best practices to develop Maestro – the first technology platform designed to institutionalize a private equity firm’s approach to value creation.

Insurify

Series B in 2021
Insurify is an internet company that features a software platform that specializes in car insurance. Its software platform utilizes artificial intelligence, language processing, and chatbots it provides personalized recommendations that help its users to decide about their car insurance. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pollinate

Series C in 2021
Pollinate Networks Ltd. provides a cloud based platform for reinventing merchant acquiring for banks. It offers banks reclaim their place in the payments value chain. It provides digital and data driven experiences for merchants and consumers. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Titanbay

Series A in 2022
Invest in top-tier private equity, distressed debt & venture capital funds alongside the world's leading investors.

CAIS

Private Equity Round in 2022
CAIS is a financial technology platform, providing independent financial advisors with access to top-tier managers of specialized investment products in the multi-trillion-dollar independent wealth channel. The company offers streamlined execution for an expanding list of alternative investment funds and products. Financial advisors use the platform to access funds and products, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, structured notes, and digital assets. CAIS complements its fund offerings with independent due diligence provided by Mercer. CAIS is an NFA member with securities offered through CAIS Capital LLC, member FINRA, SIPC. Jeremy Norton and Matt Brown co-founded CAIS in New York, New York in 2009.

Bindable

Private Equity Round in 2018
Bindable delivers solutions for modern insurance distribution. We offer a full stack of technology-enabled services to insurance companies, intermediaries, financial institutions, affinity groups and other trusted brands. We enable strategic partners to better engage their customers through insurance distribution, product diversification and market expansion. Whether you're a brand looking to offer insurance products to your customers or an insurance company trying to streamline your partner distribution, Bindable is here to make things better.

Bindable

Acquisition in 2018
Bindable delivers solutions for modern insurance distribution. We offer a full stack of technology-enabled services to insurance companies, intermediaries, financial institutions, affinity groups and other trusted brands. We enable strategic partners to better engage their customers through insurance distribution, product diversification and market expansion. Whether you're a brand looking to offer insurance products to your customers or an insurance company trying to streamline your partner distribution, Bindable is here to make things better.

Tegra118

Merger/Acquisition in 2019
Tegra118 is a provider of software solutions to the wealth and asset management industry with a vast network of broker-dealers, asset managers, and custodians and trading interfaces.

LMRKTS

Series A in 2017
LMRKTS brings equilibrium to the market – a fresh approach providing multi lateral and dimensional portfolio compression in a way that drives down exposures and reduces costs for every participant in different asset classes. Paid only on the completion of a successful compression round, LMRKTS’ compensation is a function of the total cost reduced.

Fiserv - Investment Services Business

Acquisition in 2019
Fiserv - Investment Services Business is a technology provider for key segments of the wealth and asset management industry.

Finantix

Private Equity Round in 2019
Finantix is a technology products company specialising in banking, wealth management and insurance technologies. Finantix recognises that financial institutions are complex organisations with layers of technology acquired over decades of operation, which is why they provide flexible component-based solutions that can slot into your existing infrastructure and digital strategy. Finantix offering is based on a comprehensive library of modules and components designed for the financial services industry, which promote innovation, re-usability across business channels and devices, and helps Financial Services leverage existing legacy architectures and data facilitating the integration and reuse into new digital services initiatives.

Lucht Probst Associates

Private Equity Round in 2018
Founded in 1999, LPA has been an industry leader in the Capital Markets Technology and Advisory space for two decades, effectively combining innovative software solutions with deep subject matter expertise. As the European market leader in capital markets technology solutions, LPA has a proven track record of working with international banks and financial institutions to improve the experience for clients, drive internal efficiencies and increase profitability to ultimately deliver against stated business strategies.

Navro

Venture Round in 2024
Paytrix provides payment and banking infrastructure for software companies. Paytrix builds a regulated curation layer into their network, integrating financial infrastructure to allow companies to immediately grow their payments operations internationally.

Constrafor

Venture Round in 2023
Developer of a construction procurement platform designed to streamline interactions in the construction industries. The company's platform offers multiple bids on a project and stays ahead of deadlines, manage and keep track of all bid version and responses on one platform and seamlessly communicate with suppliers, enabling the construction industries to streamline their procurement process from request for quotation issuance to proposal signing.