Motivate Venture Capital is a Chicago-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed-stage startups across the US and Canada. The firm focuses on fintech (broadly defined), vertical AI, and enterprise/industrial software, typically serving as the first professional capital in a company's lifecycle.
Deal activity increased 33% year-over-year (4 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is seed (48% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $8.1M (across 28 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
28
Fund Size
$81M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
4
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
29 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Rowan | Seed | $3.3M | Mar 2026 |
 Ammobia | Seed | $7.5M | Jan 2026 |
| CCyphlens | Seed | $3.8M | Dec 2025 |
 VeroSkills | Series A | $5.3M | Oct 2025 |
 Obviant | Series A | $7.1M | Jun 2025 |
 Upwell | Seed | $6.5M | Jan 2025 |
| NNmbr | Seed | — | Jan 2025 |
 NetNow | Pre-Seed | $1.8M | Sep 2024 |
 HubiFi | Seed | $2.5M | Aug 2024 |
 Wilya | Seed | $4M | Jun 2024 |
 Finofo | Pre-Seed | $1.3M | Aug 2023 |
 Architect Financial Technologies | Pre-Seed | $5M | Jan 2023 |
| Architect Financial Technologies | Seed | $5M | Jan 2023 |
 Telegraph | Series A | $10.1M | Dec 2022 |
 Banyan | Series A | $43M | Oct 2022 |
 HelixIntel | Seed | $4M | Mar 2022 |
 New Era ADR | Seed | $4.6M | Jan 2022 |
 Aucto | Unknown | $3.7M | Sep 2021 |
 Quiltt | Seed | $4M | — |
 Hosta AI | Series A | $11.5M | — |
 Attain | Series B | $25M | — |
 Frontdesk | Seed | $2.8M | — |
 Mahalo | Pre-Seed | $2.6M | — |
 Rowan | Seed | $3.3M | — |
| HHosta | Series A | $11.5M | — |
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Top Co-Investors
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Alumni Ventures2 shared
Anthemis2 shared
Third Kind Venture Capital2 shared
P2P Capital2 shared
Circle Ventures2 shared
SALT Fund2 shared
Coinbase Ventures2 shared
SV Angel2 shared
Circadian Ventures2 shared
Massive2 shared
Brick & Mortar Ventures2 shared
USAA2 shared
Core Innovation Capital2 shared
Silicon Valley Bank2 shared
Starting Line2 shared
Mercato Partners2 shared
nvp capital1 shared
First Bridge Ventures1 shared
Abstraction Capital1 shared
Last updated: 8 September 2026