Motive Ventures

Motive Ventures is the early-stage investment arm of Motive Partners, focused on pre-seed through to Series A financial technology investments in North America and Europe (incl. Israel). Motive Ventures is backed by globally recognized tech entrepreneurs, industry veterans as well as leading institutions and venture investors. Motive Ventures is based in Berlin, London and New York.

Hugo Bongers

Partner

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Pliant

Series B in 2025
Pliant is a European fintech company based in Berlin, founded in 2020, that specializes in B2B payment solutions. Its modular, API-first platform is designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into existing financial workflows, catering particularly to industries with complex payment requirements such as travel and fleet management. Pliant offers services to two main customer segments: businesses seeking to optimize their operational processes through user-friendly applications and APIs, and financial service providers aiming to enhance their credit card offerings via Pliant's embedded finance and white-label solutions. As a licensed e-money institution, Pliant issues Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, serving over 3,500 businesses and over 20 partners globally. The platform allows companies to manage expenses and credit limits easily, promoting efficiency and financial flexibility without the need for traditional bank loans.

Warren

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Warren seeks to empower individuals to take control of their financial futures by emphasizing the importance of employee well-being in the workplace.

Zocks

Series A in 2025
Zocks, established in 2022 and based in San Francisco, specializes in real-time video call insights and privacy. The company's core product is a communication management platform, which captures and analyzes industry-specific insights from client conversations. Key features include claim code tracking, data entry reduction, session insights, HIPAA compliance, and API references, helping clients streamline workflows and extract valuable data from conversations.

Flanks

Series B in 2025
Flanks is a Barcelona-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing an application programming interface (API) platform tailored for the banking sector. The company aims to simplify wealth management by providing a seamless solution for various financial entities, including banks, family offices, and portfolio trackers. Flanks' platform integrates portfolio management tasks, allowing users to automate processes related to custodians, fund administrators, and proprietary data warehouses. With a team of experts in wealth management and technology, Flanks seeks to enhance the user experience between clients and financial investors, thereby reshaping the wealth management landscape.

Nelly

Series B in 2025
Nelly is a company that develops tools aimed at enhancing the efficiency of medical practices by simplifying patient onboarding and payment processes. It addresses the significant administrative burdens faced by healthcare professionals, which are commonly viewed as a major challenge in their daily operations. Nelly's solutions enable digital patient admission, allowing patients to complete necessary documentation and sign forms securely using their phones. This streamlined approach facilitates the collection of patient data and offers various payment options, significantly reducing the administrative workload for doctors and staff. By focusing on improving the overall experience for both patients and medical personnel, Nelly aims to create a more patient-friendly and efficient healthcare environment.

Upvest

Series C in 2024
Upvest provides an investment API and blockchain wallet infrastructure that enables businesses and financial institutions to offer investment products and wallet experiences within their apps. Its modular, scalable platform supports portfolios, savings plans and micro-investing features such as roundups, while offering the digital infrastructure needed for licenses, vendor management, and back- and middle-office operations. The API also connects to blockchain networks and tokenized platforms, enabling DApps and exchanges to build wallet-enabled experiences for end users and allowing cross-border, secure access to investment products.

Synthera AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Synthera AI specializes in generating synthetic financial data using advanced generative AI. Its platform simulates diverse market scenarios, including those not seen historically, for equities, foreign exchange, and interest rates. This enables financial institutions to stress-test portfolios, identify risks, and discover investment opportunities through adaptable simulations, thereby enhancing their decision-making processes.

Vega

Series A in 2024
Vega is to change wealth management through the application of cutting-edge technology. We aim to bring together the private and institutional sectors with a platform that streamlines wealth creation for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors by using our team's financial and technical knowledge.

Parto

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Parto services include business accounts, accounts with fiduciary custody, and payment cards for staff members and those receiving care. Using our proprietary software, which allows for automated billing of business expenses and digital custody fund administration.

MYNE

Series A in 2024
MYNE Homes is a prop-tech company that specializes in a managed co-ownership model for vacation properties. By allowing multiple owners to share the costs and responsibilities associated with holiday home ownership, MYNE Homes makes this experience more accessible and enjoyable. The company focuses on providing professionally designed and managed properties, ensuring a high-quality experience for co-owners. Additionally, it offers concierge services to facilitate a seamless holiday experience. MYNE Homes aims to simplify the process of purchasing and managing vacation homes in Europe and internationally, enabling individuals to find and acquire their ideal getaway at an affordable price.

bunch

Series A in 2024
Bunch is a fintech company that offers a platform designed to streamline private market investing. It focuses on digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding, and portfolio management. By addressing challenges such as legacy intermediaries, regulatory complexity, and inefficient administration, Bunch aims to save time, money, and mental energy for its users. The platform operates across various legal structures, asset classes, and jurisdictions, making private markets more accessible for businesses and investors. Through its innovative approach, Bunch seeks to simplify and enhance the efficiency of private market transactions.

Doconomy

Series B in 2024
Doconomy AB is a fintech company based in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2018, that specializes in digital banking services. It has developed the DO application, which allows users to track and measure their carbon dioxide emissions and ecological footprint resulting from online purchases. One of its notable offerings is DO Black, a credit card that incorporates a carbon limit, encouraging users to engage in sustainable consumption. Doconomy's mission is to inspire behavioral change and reduce carbon emissions by connecting consumers, producers, retailers, and influencers within a circular ecosystem. The company provides tools that enable users to visualize the environmental impact of their financial transactions and offers insights and incentives for reducing consumption, thereby promoting a sustainable lifestyle for all.

Novata

Venture Round in 2024
Novata is a developer of a technological platform aimed at enhancing corporate governance through measurement, data collection, and benchmarking. Founded in 2021 in New York by Alexander Friedman, the company provides a streamlined reporting framework that consolidates key metrics and features a secure contributory database. This allows private businesses to report their data effectively while benefiting from objective, data-driven benchmarking against both private and public company peers. Novata's platform supports private equity firms and private companies in navigating the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) landscape, thereby empowering them to gain valuable insights from their data and fulfill reporting requirements for investors, regulators, and stakeholders.

Alphastream

Seed Round in 2024
Alphastream is a company that transforms how private and public debt markets access and utilize data for informed decision-making. It specializes in developing advanced data and technology platforms powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, specifically designed for the financial services industry. By offering cloud-based software solutions, Alphastream equips financial professionals with essential data and workflow services, enabling them to interpret complex information and effectively distribute it to investors and analysts. The company's innovative approach aims to enhance efficiency and accuracy in financial decision-making processes.

Pliant

Series A in 2024
Pliant is a European fintech company based in Berlin, founded in 2020, that specializes in B2B payment solutions. Its modular, API-first platform is designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into existing financial workflows, catering particularly to industries with complex payment requirements such as travel and fleet management. Pliant offers services to two main customer segments: businesses seeking to optimize their operational processes through user-friendly applications and APIs, and financial service providers aiming to enhance their credit card offerings via Pliant's embedded finance and white-label solutions. As a licensed e-money institution, Pliant issues Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, serving over 3,500 businesses and over 20 partners globally. The platform allows companies to manage expenses and credit limits easily, promoting efficiency and financial flexibility without the need for traditional bank loans.

NX

Series B in 2024
NX Technologies is a developer of innovative solutions for the energy sector, focusing on enhancing energy efficiency in buildings and homes. The company's platform is designed to manage and control wasted and inefficiently consumed energy, allowing clients to optimize their energy use. By minimizing power waste, NX Technologies aims to help its clients reduce energy expenditures while contributing to environmental sustainability. Through its advanced technologies, the company seeks to address the challenges of energy consumption and promote more efficient practices within the industry.

Bezahl.de

Series B in 2024
Bezahl.de is a financial technology startup that specializes in automating and digitizing the receivables process. The company offers a digital payment management platform that streamlines invoicing, dunning, and financial accounting. By facilitating real-time communication with customers regarding payment receipts, Bezahl.de enhances payment traceability and enables contactless transactions. Its services also include invoice digitization and embedded finance solutions, aimed at improving the efficiency of payment management for marketers and car dealers, ultimately helping them conserve resources and optimize their internal processes.

Navro

Venture Round in 2024
Navro is a fintech company that specializes in providing payment and banking infrastructure for software businesses. It offers a platform that enables brands to scale their payment operations globally by integrating various financial services such as international payment acceptance, local fund collection, and real-time coverage. Navro's solution allows businesses to manage their payment stack efficiently, facilitating international growth.

Pliant

Series A in 2024
Pliant is a European fintech company based in Berlin, founded in 2020, that specializes in B2B payment solutions. Its modular, API-first platform is designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into existing financial workflows, catering particularly to industries with complex payment requirements such as travel and fleet management. Pliant offers services to two main customer segments: businesses seeking to optimize their operational processes through user-friendly applications and APIs, and financial service providers aiming to enhance their credit card offerings via Pliant's embedded finance and white-label solutions. As a licensed e-money institution, Pliant issues Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, serving over 3,500 businesses and over 20 partners globally. The platform allows companies to manage expenses and credit limits easily, promoting efficiency and financial flexibility without the need for traditional bank loans.

Korr

Seed Round in 2024
Korr is an IT company based in New York City that specializes in developing an insurance management platform. This platform is designed to facilitate the creation and administration of insurance policies, utilizing a cloud-native and API-first approach. By focusing on efficient data processing, risk management, and customer relations, Korr enables its clients to streamline operations, save time, and enhance productivity in managing their insurance products.

DoorFeed

Seed Round in 2023
DoorFeed is a company that specializes in aggregating single-family rental properties into income-generating portfolios, utilizing advanced technology and local expertise. It focuses on providing tailored solutions for private investors, wealth managers, and institutional investors. The company offers a range of services, including deal sourcing, underwriting, asset transformation and management, as well as cash flow management and reporting. By leveraging proprietary algorithms and analytics, DoorFeed enables investors to deploy capital efficiently and achieve stabilized income quickly. Their operations are supported by accessible communication channels for inquiries.

Vega

Seed Round in 2023
Vega is to change wealth management through the application of cutting-edge technology. We aim to bring together the private and institutional sectors with a platform that streamlines wealth creation for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors by using our team's financial and technical knowledge.

TIFIN AMP

Series A in 2023
TIFIN AMP is an AI platform that will modernize distribution for asset management companies.

ThreatFabric

Seed Round in 2023
ThreatFabric is a cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting banks and their customers from fraud and malware threats. The company offers two primary solutions: Mobile Threat Intelligence (MTI) and Client Side Detection (CSD). MTI combines dark-web investigations and malware analysis to empower users with the necessary tools to detect and mitigate known and unknown threats. CSD provides a balanced approach to risk assessment and malware detection, ensuring secure online transactions for various financial services. Through these solutions, ThreatFabric aims to simplify the response to complex cyber threats, making it efficient and effective for banks to protect their customers from fraudulent activities.

Bezahl.de

Series A in 2023
Bezahl.de is a financial technology startup that specializes in automating and digitizing the receivables process. The company offers a digital payment management platform that streamlines invoicing, dunning, and financial accounting. By facilitating real-time communication with customers regarding payment receipts, Bezahl.de enhances payment traceability and enables contactless transactions. Its services also include invoice digitization and embedded finance solutions, aimed at improving the efficiency of payment management for marketers and car dealers, ultimately helping them conserve resources and optimize their internal processes.

Februar

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Februar is an information technology company specializing in payment solutions tailored for Web3 projects. The company has developed a platform that enables seamless integration of fiat payments within Web3 environments, facilitating direct purchases of tokens into user wallets. By providing a straightforward on-ramp for wallets and checkout infrastructure, Februar simplifies the process for users to invest in decentralized finance (DeFi) projects and engage with non-fungible tokens and token sales. This approach offers Web3 companies enhanced flexibility and comprehensive guidance on integrating their projects, fostering a more efficient transaction experience within the evolving digital landscape.

bunch

Seed Round in 2022
Bunch is a fintech company that offers a platform designed to streamline private market investing. It focuses on digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding, and portfolio management. By addressing challenges such as legacy intermediaries, regulatory complexity, and inefficient administration, Bunch aims to save time, money, and mental energy for its users. The platform operates across various legal structures, asset classes, and jurisdictions, making private markets more accessible for businesses and investors. Through its innovative approach, Bunch seeks to simplify and enhance the efficiency of private market transactions.

Hero

Seed Round in 2022
Hero, founded in 2021 by Roland Jais-Nielsen, is a financial technology company dedicated to addressing the funding gap for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe. The company offers a wide range of instantly available financing and payment options designed to alleviate working capital challenges faced by European SMEs. Hero's platform integrates banking, payments, and credit services into a single digital solution, aiming to enhance growth, operational efficiency, and financial flexibility for its clients.

MYNE

Seed Round in 2022
MYNE Homes is a prop-tech company that specializes in a managed co-ownership model for vacation properties. By allowing multiple owners to share the costs and responsibilities associated with holiday home ownership, MYNE Homes makes this experience more accessible and enjoyable. The company focuses on providing professionally designed and managed properties, ensuring a high-quality experience for co-owners. Additionally, it offers concierge services to facilitate a seamless holiday experience. MYNE Homes aims to simplify the process of purchasing and managing vacation homes in Europe and internationally, enabling individuals to find and acquire their ideal getaway at an affordable price.

Getquin

Series A in 2022
Getquin is a financial technology company that offers a comprehensive platform for investors to manage and track their entire net worth in one location. The platform is designed to facilitate the creation and management of exchange-traded fund portfolios, allowing users to analyze their assets and make informed investment decisions. By providing tools to monitor investments continuously, Getquin fosters a community of like-minded investors, enhancing the decision-making process through shared insights and information. This integrated approach aims to empower individuals to take control of their financial futures.

Nelly

Seed Round in 2022
Nelly is a company that develops tools aimed at enhancing the efficiency of medical practices by simplifying patient onboarding and payment processes. It addresses the significant administrative burdens faced by healthcare professionals, which are commonly viewed as a major challenge in their daily operations. Nelly's solutions enable digital patient admission, allowing patients to complete necessary documentation and sign forms securely using their phones. This streamlined approach facilitates the collection of patient data and offers various payment options, significantly reducing the administrative workload for doctors and staff. By focusing on improving the overall experience for both patients and medical personnel, Nelly aims to create a more patient-friendly and efficient healthcare environment.

luca

Seed Round in 2022
Luca is a developer of a digital wallet designed to enhance the gastronomy sector through digitization. The company provides a fintech and identification system that streamlines the processes of booking, ordering, and paying in restaurants, as well as facilitating hotel check-ins. By integrating these services into a single application, Luca aims to simplify user experiences in the gastronomy industry, making it easier for customers to manage their bookings and transactions. The company's innovative approach positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of digital solutions for the hospitality and dining sectors.

Bezahl.de

Seed Round in 2022
Bezahl.de is a financial technology startup that specializes in automating and digitizing the receivables process. The company offers a digital payment management platform that streamlines invoicing, dunning, and financial accounting. By facilitating real-time communication with customers regarding payment receipts, Bezahl.de enhances payment traceability and enables contactless transactions. Its services also include invoice digitization and embedded finance solutions, aimed at improving the efficiency of payment management for marketers and car dealers, ultimately helping them conserve resources and optimize their internal processes.

Nelly

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nelly is a company that develops tools aimed at enhancing the efficiency of medical practices by simplifying patient onboarding and payment processes. It addresses the significant administrative burdens faced by healthcare professionals, which are commonly viewed as a major challenge in their daily operations. Nelly's solutions enable digital patient admission, allowing patients to complete necessary documentation and sign forms securely using their phones. This streamlined approach facilitates the collection of patient data and offers various payment options, significantly reducing the administrative workload for doctors and staff. By focusing on improving the overall experience for both patients and medical personnel, Nelly aims to create a more patient-friendly and efficient healthcare environment.
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