Motive Partners
motivepartners.com Direct + LP
Motive Partners is a private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled financial and business services companies. It operates across venture, growth, and buyout stages, focusing on sectors such as wealth management, banking, insurance, capital markets, and AI.
Motive Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 2016. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from pre-seed to buyout, in wealth & asset management, banking & payments, insurance and capital markets. Its stated cheque size is $1-10M lead/co-lead checks. $6.4B under management and 67 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in tech-enabled financial and business services companies”
— Motive Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Invests in
- North America, Europe
- Sectors
- Wealth & asset management, Banking & payments, Insurance, Capital markets, AI, data & analytics, Business services
- Cheque size
- $1-10M lead/co-lead checks
- Founded
- 2016
- Assets under management
- $6.4B
- Portfolio
- 67 companies
Team, as Motive Partners publishes it
- Rob Heyvaert Founder, Managing Partner
- Jeff Yabuki Chairman and Founding Partner
- Bob Brown Founding Partner & Head of Capital Formation & Investor Relations
- Scott Kauffman Founding Partner & Head of Investments
- Kristy Trieste Founding Partner, CFO & COO
- Neil Cochrane Founding Partner, Investments
- Ramin Niroumand Partner, Investments & Head of Venture
- Umesh Subramanian Partner, Investments
- Bridget van Kralingen Partner, Investments & Chair of Create
- Sreeram Visvanathan Partner & Head of Create
- Chris Williams Partner, Investments
- Richard Lumb Industry Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on motivepartners.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 100 co-investors found.
- Square Peg Capital 3 shared companies: getro.com, caisgroup.com, cais.ky
- Illuminate Financial 3 shared companies: getpliant.com, bunch.capital, zocks.io
- 14Peaks Capital AG 3 shared companies: zocks.io, alphastream.ai, threatfabric.com
- Acadian Ventures Management, LLC 2 shared companies: getro.com, penzilla.de
- Calm/Storm Ventures 2 shared companies: getnelly.de, getpliant.com
- seed + speed Ventures 2 shared companies: getpliant.com, finperks.com
- ParaFi Capital LP 2 shared companies: anchorage.com, credix.finance
- CC Capital 2 shared companies: dnb.com, wilshire.com
- Clocktower Technology Ventures 2 shared companies: constrafor.com, navro.com
- RockawayX 2 shared companies: credix.finance, vega.xyz
and 90 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Motive Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://motivepartners.com/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://motivepartners.com/aboutlayer, type, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://motivepartners.com/teampeople
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Record 1166 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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