Motive Ventures
250 Greenwich Street FL47, New York, NY, 10007, United States
Overview
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.
- Total investments
- 55
- Lead investments
- 27
- Investments · 12mo
- 14
- Active investors
- 13
Sector focus
- Financial Services
- FinTech
Investment portfolio
- Cordant
Led · Seed · Jul 2026
Cordant provides a real-time command center that ingests signals from payment rails, bank accounts, ledgers, compliance and risk systems and normalizes them into a shared event model to show how transactions moved across an operating environment. The platform does not move or hold funds, replace core systems, or require centralized data; instead it detects control gaps, coordinates exception workflows, and produces audit-grade records of activity. Cordant developed its product with 11 design partners spanning payments, digital assets and traditional banking, with Bitso and Paxos serving as both design partners and investors. The company was founded by former Rapyd leaders who built and commercialized Rapyd's global infrastructure and say Cordant grew from the operational visibility challenges they encountered. Cordant will use its seed funding to bring the system into production and to activate private beta clients, and it is positioning itself as a prerequisite layer for institutions looking to deploy AI and new rails within regulated workflows.
- WARREN
Led · Seed · Jun 2026
Warren offers a workplace pension platform and a financial coaching service that integrates AI-powered guidance with access to human advisers. The company obtained an IBP licence in 2025 and manages the Warren Pension Fund OFP, which invests through a diversified portfolio of equity and bond ETFs. Employers can switch to Warren without increasing existing pension budgets, and employees retain full investment returns with no entry, exit, or assets-under-management fees. Warren integrates data from pension records, employee benefits, and banking information to advise users on retirement planning, mortgages, insurance, and personal finances. Around 100 Belgian businesses, including Lighthouse, Yuki, Wintercircus, and Poppy Mobility, have adopted the platform and thousands of employees actively use the service. The company plans to use recent funding to expand further in Belgium, prepare for broader European entry, grow its team, and scale its products and platform.
- bunch
Participated · Series B · May 2026
bunch offers a single-source-of-truth infrastructure for European private markets, enabling fund managers and institutional investors to manage the full fund lifecycle, including digital investor onboarding, capital calls, fund administration, fund accounting and tax reporting. The company emphasizes automation and AI-native capabilities to replace fragmented, outdated processes. Led by CEO Enrico Ohnemüller and founded in 2021, bunch operates across Europe with additional offices in London, Amsterdam and Luxembourg. It currently supports over 150 fund managers and more than 12,000 LPs across major European jurisdictions. With the $35M Series B, bunch plans to accelerate commercial growth across Europe and expand into new geographies, asset classes and operational workflows while further developing its automation and AI features.
- LawX
Led · Seed · May 2026
LawX develops an AI-driven platform that automates operational processes for law firms and notaries, including data capture, workflow management, document handling, contact and calendar management, and billing. The platform combines case management, workflow automation, document processing, communication management and billing within a single system. LawX positions itself to address fragmented legacy systems and labour shortages that leave many operational tasks manual across the legal sector. The company plans to expand its product offering into the broader law firm market and aims to become a leading operating system for legal work across Europe. Following its €7.5 million seed raise, LawX intends to use the funding to continue product development, expand the platform, and scale sales and customer support functions.
- Versana
Participated · Equity · Apr 2026
Versana provides a centralized platform that digitally captures agents' loan data on a real-time basis from golden-source ledgers to deliver loan-level transparency and lender portfolio visibility. The company serves the broadly syndicated loan (BSL) and private credit markets and positions itself as a standard source of credible deal information across the asset class. In 2025 it introduced a Versana Reconciliation Module and a cashless roll solution linking amended facilities to original facilities. Versana reports active facility coverage exceeding $4.1 trillion in notional value. With over $125 million raised across multiple funding rounds, the company is pursuing international expansion, product innovation and data analytics enhancements to modernize the $9 trillion loan market.