Motive Partners
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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 directly in companies, 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 investor
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 100 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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