VC  Motivate Venture Capital

https://motivate.vc/




     Office Locations:

110 North Peoria #104
Chicago, IL 60607
 

Stages:

  • Early
 

Industries:

  • Education & Training
  • Financial Services
  • Food & Agriculture
  • Information Technology
  • Software & Internet
  • Transportation & Distribution


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    Description:

    Motivate Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed companies. Typical investments are around $5K and in startups within the US and Canada. The firm's portfolio total market cap exceeds $40B across many verticals, including FinTech, HRTech, IoT, Coworking, EdTech, Travel, Logistics, and Food. Motivate tends to stay away from products businesses, pharma, Med device, cannabis, and crypto. As part-time angel investors, the GPs have made nearly 100 investments with significant success, including multiple 30x+ returns.


     

    Funds:


      Fund Name
      Amount
      Date
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    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)    		No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)    		$2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)    		$7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Courtney Trunk Sr. Associate
    David Wieland Founder & Managing Partner
    Lauren Deluca Founder & Managing Partner

     

    Recent Funding Events (trailing 12 months):


      Date
      Name
      State
      Amount
      Stage

      10/05/2024
      FeedbackNow
      NY
      $9,000,000
      Series A

      06/24/2024
      Wilya
      NY
      $4,000,000
      Seed

     

    Portfolio companies include:


      Architect
        web link


      Attain


      Banyan


      CoreChain Technologies
        web link


      FeedbackNow
        web link


      Fulcrum


      Hallow


      HELIXintel
        web link


      Hosta AI


      Jawnt


      Lazarus


      Mesh


      nmbr


      Path


      Telegraph
        web link


      Valiot


      Wilya
        web link


     

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