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Motivate Activity

Every public signal F4 has attached to this firm, with sources and cross-entity links.

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Investment

Motivate participated in Seed round of FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI), a company bringing Wall Street to the Stadium based in Chicago.

FutureSports Performance Indexes

FutureSports Performance Indexes Motivate

tracxn.comJUL 23, 2026

JUL 23, 2026

New Fund

Motivate launched Fund III in February 2026, targeting early-stage fintech opportunities. The firm now has more than $200M in AUM. The announcement also included the acquisition of Willpower Ventures (Andy Will joining as Partner), promotion of Jackson Bubala to Partner, promotion of Courtney Trunk to Head of Platform, and launch of Athena™ proprietary intelligence platform.

Motivate Venture Capital

Motivate Venture Capital Motivate

motivate.vcMAR 21, 2026

MAR 21, 2026

Team Change

Acquired Willpower Ventures and added Andy Will as partner to deepen early-stage fintech capabilities.

Andy Will joined as partner

motivate.vcMAR 21, 2026

MAR 21, 2026

Essay

Published Fund III thesis describing fintech broadly across exchanges of value, transfer of risk, and allocation of resources.

Everything is Fintech

motivate.vcMAR 21, 2026

MAR 21, 2026

New Fund

Announced Motivate Fund III, launched in February 2026, targeting early-stage fintech opportunities.

Motivate Fund III

motivate.vcMAR 21, 2026

bizjournals.com

MAR 21, 2026

New Fund

Launched Fund III targeting $100 million to invest in AI-driven fintech companies.

Fund III

bizjournals.comMAR 2026

MAR 2026

Exit

Portfolio company CoreChain was acquired by OpenFX in February 2026.

Corechain

Corechain Motivate

tracxn.comFEB 19, 2026

FEB 19, 2026

Investment

Motivate participated in Seed round of Ammobia, a clean energy tech company, alongside Shell Ventures and others.

Ammobia

Ammobia Motivate

tracxn.comJAN 14, 2026

JAN 14, 2026

Milestone

Portfolio company Mesh closed $75M Series C and reached $1 billion unicorn valuation.

Mesh

motivate.vcJAN 2026

JAN 2026

Investment

Motivate participated in Cyphlens seed round to advance visual encryption for enterprise security, alongside Salesforce Ventures and Digital Currency Group.

Cyphlens

Cyphlens Motivate

prnewswire.comDEC 11, 2025

DEC 11, 2025

Investment

Motivate participated in VeroSkills $5.3M Series A for AI-powered blue-collar staffing platform.

VeroSkills

VeroSkills Motivate

tracxn.comOCT 29, 2025

OCT 29, 2025

Exit

Portfolio company Chime went public on NASDAQ at $8.97B market cap. Motivate was an early investor in Chime.

Chime

tracxn.comJUN 12, 2025

JUN 12, 2025

Investment

Led Mahalo's $2.6M pre-seed round for post-purchase experience platform.

Mahalo

businesswire.comJUN 2025

JUN 2025