Motive Partners
Private investment firm
- 101-200 employees
- Fintech
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Financial Services
- SaaS
- Data Analysis
- World Trade Center, New York, NY
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Company mission
To invest in tech-enabled financial and business services companies.
15% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
The financial services industry is going through a major technological shift. Banks, insureres, and asset managers are increasingly erlying on software, data, and AI to modernize legacy systems, improve efficiency, and deliver better digital experiences for customers. This transformation has helped fuel the rapid growth of financial technology, or fintech, creating a large and expanding market for investors looking to back the companies building the infrastructure behind modern finance,
Motive Partners is a private investment firm focused entirely on this opportunity. Founded in 2016, the firm invests in financial technology and tech-enabled business services companies across North America and Europe, from early-stage startups through to large growth and buyout deals. Its investment span areas such as banking and payments, capital markets, insurance, data and analytics, and wealth management. What makes Motive really stand out is its "Investor, Operator, Innovator" approach, meaning it doesn't just provide capital, but also works closely with portfolio companies to help improve operations, technology and strategy.
Since launching, the firm has grown into one of the more prominent specialist investors in the fintech space. Motive has raised billions of dollars in capital and built a broad portfolio of companies across the financial technology ecosystem. AS financial institutions continue to modernize and new technologies such as AI reshape the industry, Motive is set to benefit from the long-term digitisation of finance and the increasing demand for specialized fintech investors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle