Motive Partners

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.

Thomas Harris

Director

Michael Hayford

Founding Partner

Scott Kauffman

Partner

Blythe Masters

Founding Partner

Luc Philippi

Partner, Motive Labs

25 past transactions

Backbase

Private Equity Round in 2022
Backbase's Engagement Banking Platform is a state-of-the-art omni-channel banking software solution that empowers Financials to accelerate their digital transformation. Backbase's software provides all the building blocks and accelerators banks need to fast track the implementation of their next generation digital banking vision. The platform enables banks to create and manage seamless customer experiences across any device, that are directly integrated with any back-end system. Superior digital experiences are essential to stay relevant with consumers and Backbase enables financials to rapidly grow their digital business. More than 150 banks and credit unions around the world have standardised on the Backbase platform to streamline their omni-channel / digital operations, including ABN AMRO, Barclays, CheBanca!, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity, Hapoalim, HDFC, KeyBank, NBAD, OTP, PZU, PostFinance, Societe Generale and Westpac. Industry analysts Gartner, Forrester and Omnia rate Backbase as a market leader in terms of engagement banking platform capabilities and innovation, and award the company high marks for its deep focus on customer experience management and unparalleled speed of implementation. Backbase was founded in 2003, is privately funded, with headquarters in Amsterdam (HQ Global) and Atlanta (HQ Americas) and Singapore (HQ APAC). Specialties: Omni-Channel Banking Digital Transformation Online and Mobile Banking Software Digital Insurance Software Customer Experience Software On-boarding & Origination Software FinTech Innovation

Titanbay

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

TIFIN

Series D in 2022
TIFIN is a platform that conceives, creates, and operates fintech companies in the areas of wealth management, investments, and personal finance. Their operating companies are shaping the future of investor experience with intelligent products that recognize the uniqueness of each investor. TIFIN leverages the combined power of investment intelligence, data science, and technology to make investing a more powerful driver of financial well-being.

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.

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.

Trumid

Venture Round in 2021
Trumid is a financial technology company building a trading network. The company optimizes the credit trading experience by combining agile technology and market expertise, with a focus on product design.

Insurify

Series B in 2021
Insurify is an internet company that features a software platform that specializes in car insurance. Their software platform utilizes artificial intelligence, language processing, and chatbots to provide personalized recommendations that help its users decide about their car insurance.

Pollinate

Series C in 2021
Pollinate is a software business, focused on reinventing merchant acquiring for banks around the world. The business is based in London, UK, and formed of experts and global industry leaders from the financial services, merchant acquiring, loyalty, and technology sectors. Over the past decade, the acquiring industry has grown from strength to strength, due to huge advances in technology, changes to regulation, customer demand, and an increase in disruptive payment companies, challenging retail banks for ownership of their merchant relationships. Pollinate is working with banks and enabling them to compete with these disruptors. Pollinate technology is an innovative cloud-based platform that wraps around a bank’s legacy payment systems. The platform powers merchant and consumer digital experiences including onboarding, portals, and loyalty programs, without costly and distracting platform migrations. This allows merchants to more effectively manage their businesses with digital tools and data integrations, grow their businesses by connecting with their consumers, and give back to their local communities. For banks, the Pollinate platform helps them to understand and engage with their customers better and build stronger relationships with their merchants and consumers alike. In 2019, Pollinate successfully enabled the Royal Bank of Scotland Group to re-enter merchant acquiring with NatWest Tyl, providing their business customers with a proposition developed with them at the heart.

InvestCloud

Private Equity Round in 2021
InvestCloud, headquartered in Los Angeles, offers a digital financial services platform that enhances investment management for a diverse range of clients including wealth managers, institutional investors, and banks. The platform supports over $1.7 trillion in assets across 670 institutional customers by providing integrated solutions that improve decision-making and streamline financial planning. InvestCloud’s offerings include client communication tools, client management systems, digital warehousing, data analytics, and accounting services. These features are designed to be rapidly deployable and highly modular, allowing users to tailor the platform to their specific needs. By facilitating better investment strategies and operational efficiency, InvestCloud empowers its clients to maximize returns and optimize their investment processes.

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.

Pollinate

Series A in 2019
Pollinate is a software business, focused on reinventing merchant acquiring for banks around the world. The business is based in London, UK, and formed of experts and global industry leaders from the financial services, merchant acquiring, loyalty, and technology sectors. Over the past decade, the acquiring industry has grown from strength to strength, due to huge advances in technology, changes to regulation, customer demand, and an increase in disruptive payment companies, challenging retail banks for ownership of their merchant relationships. Pollinate is working with banks and enabling them to compete with these disruptors. Pollinate technology is an innovative cloud-based platform that wraps around a bank’s legacy payment systems. The platform powers merchant and consumer digital experiences including onboarding, portals, and loyalty programs, without costly and distracting platform migrations. This allows merchants to more effectively manage their businesses with digital tools and data integrations, grow their businesses by connecting with their consumers, and give back to their local communities. For banks, the Pollinate platform helps them to understand and engage with their customers better and build stronger relationships with their merchants and consumers alike. In 2019, Pollinate successfully enabled the Royal Bank of Scotland Group to re-enter merchant acquiring with NatWest Tyl, providing their business customers with a proposition developed with them at the heart.

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.

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.

Dun & Bradstreet

Private Equity Round in 2019
Dun & Bradstreet offers business intelligence and data analytics solutions to support risk management, compliance, and growth strategies. It provides credit scoring, supplier risk assessment, and market insights to help organizations make informed decisions. The company’s database includes financial and operational information on businesses worldwide, assisting clients in evaluating partnerships and monitoring industry trends. Its services are used across sectors, including finance, government, and supply chain management.

Dun & Bradstreet

Acquisition in 2019
Dun & Bradstreet offers business intelligence and data analytics solutions to support risk management, compliance, and growth strategies. It provides credit scoring, supplier risk assessment, and market insights to help organizations make informed decisions. The company’s database includes financial and operational information on businesses worldwide, assisting clients in evaluating partnerships and monitoring industry trends. Its services are used across sectors, including finance, government, and supply chain management.

Finantix

Acquisition in 2018
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.

Bindable

Private Equity Round in 2018
Bindable delivers solutions for modern insurance distribution. They offer a full stack of technology-enabled services to insurance companies, intermediaries, financial institutions, affinity groups and other trusted brands. They enable strategic partners to better engage their customers through insurance distribution, product diversification, and market expansion.

Bindable

Acquisition in 2018
Bindable delivers solutions for modern insurance distribution. They offer a full stack of technology-enabled services to insurance companies, intermediaries, financial institutions, affinity groups and other trusted brands. They enable strategic partners to better engage their customers through insurance distribution, product diversification, and market expansion.

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.
J.P. Morgan understands that your company’s success is driven by the remarkable commitment and dedication of its employees. Workplace Solutions is a holistic tech and service-based offering, created to empower your team to easily navigate their workplace incentives with confidence. From stock plan administration powered by Global Shares and financial education to wealth building and beyond - our intuitive solutions help you attract and keep talented people who believe in your company as much as you believe in them. Contact us today to find out how we can help empower your workforce.

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions

Private Equity Round in 2018
J.P. Morgan understands that your company’s success is driven by the remarkable commitment and dedication of its employees. Workplace Solutions is a holistic tech and service-based offering, created to empower your team to easily navigate their workplace incentives with confidence. From stock plan administration powered by Global Shares and financial education to wealth building and beyond - our intuitive solutions help you attract and keep talented people who believe in your company as much as you believe in them. Contact us today to find out how we can help empower your workforce.

Avaloq

Private Equity Round in 2017
Avaloq group is an international fintech company that digitizes the automation of financial services industry. With its core and digital banking software, the Avaloq Banking Suite, and its international network of BPO centres, Avaloq brings trustworthy and efficient banking to the world, delivered through great user experience. With its integrated BPO services, Avaloq is the only independent provider for the financial industry to both develop and operate its own software.

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.

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.
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