Motivate Venture Capital

About Motivate Venture Capital

Motivate Venture Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm that empowers ambitious founders to realize their vision by providing experience, connections, and capital. They focus on investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies, co-creating new ventures with high-caliber founders, and supporting emerging VC funds.

Products & Services

Seed Stage Venture Capital:Specializes in early stage investments, targeting $250k-1m in pre-seed and $1.5-3m in seed opportunities.

New Venture Creation:Works with high-caliber founders to co-create and bring new ideas to life.

Emerging VC Support:Invests in and supports emerging pre-seed and seed stage VC funds.

Portfolio Companies:Includes investments in cloud-based ERP for small manufacturers, earned wage access platforms, AI models for data extraction, AI-driven manufacturing platforms, crypto and financial market threat detection, and software for social service agencies.

Specialties

Seed Stage Investments Pre-Seed Investments New Venture Creation Emerging VC Fund Support

Funding History

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#	Type	Amount Fields	Date Fields	Investors
1	RT: Fund II T: - FT: Fund II	A: 81000000 MR: - FA: $81 million FAN: 81000000	D: 2023-12-14 FD: 2023-12-14	1 investors

Fund II Latest

2023-12-14

$81.0M

1 investor (Pro only)

Growth Metrics

+45%

Employee Growth

YoY

3.2x

Funding Growth

Last Round

12

Markets

Operating

10K+

Customers

Active

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Team & Leadership

D

David Wieland

Founder & Managing Partner

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L

Lauren DeLuca

Founder & Managing Partner

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J

Jackson Bubala

Principal

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C

Courtney Trunk

Senior Associate

B

Bonnie Kearns

Chief Operations Officer

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