VC firm
Motivate Ventures
Also known as Motivate OF, Motivate OF I, LP, Motivate Ventures AI, Motivate Ventures AI Fund II, LP, Motivate Ventures AI Fund III, LP, MOTIVATE VENTURES FUND I, LP, MOTIVATE VENTURES QP, MOTIVATE VENTURES QP FUND I, LP
- Investor type
- VC
- Investing status
- Activeas of 2026-09-18Source (opens in a new tab)
- Headquarters
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Founded
- 2019
- Assets under management
- $248MForm ADV private fund GAV, as of 2026-03-12Source (opens in a new tab)
- Latest fund size
- $61MSEC amount sold, as of 2023-11-20Source (opens in a new tab)
- Funds
- 15
- Check size
- $250K to $3MSource (opens in a new tab)
- Legal name
- MOTIVATE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
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About
Motivate helps ambitious founders realize their vision of tomorrow. We invest across the earliest stages of a company’s lifecycle, providing our experience, connections, and capital to the leaders of tomorrow’s greatest companies.
Investment approach
- Thesis
- MVC invests in optimism, ingenuity, and humanity’s insatiable desire to creatively improve. We back incredible founders with strong domain knowledge who are tackling real, durable problems. We look for opportunities with very high growth potential in large and growing markets.Source (opens in a new tab)
- Ownership target
- We do not have ownership targets at the seed stage, but on average we buy 10% of a business at that stage. For seed stage companies, we ideally like to purchase around 15% ownership with $1.5-3M investments.
- Reserves policy
- We reserve follow-on capital for our companies who are executing on plan.
- Investing status notes
- We invest across the earliest stages of a company’s lifecycle, providing our experience, connections, and capital to the leaders of tomorrow’s greatest companies.
Funds
- Motivate Ventures QP Fund III, LP
- Vintage 2025Main fund
- Motivate Ventures AI Fund III, LP
- Vintage 2025Main fund
- Motivate OF I, LP
- Vintage 2025Main fund
- Motivate Ventures QP Fund II, LP
- $61MVintage 2022, Main fund, SEC amount sold
- Motivate Ventures AI Fund II, LP
- $19.8MVintage 2022, Main fund, SEC amount sold
- MOTIVATE VENTURES QP FUND I, LP
- $26.7MVintage 2020, Main fund, SEC amount sold
- MOTIVATE VENTURES FUND I, LP
- $17.2MVintage 2019, Main fund, SEC amount sold
- MCM STACKED SERIES A
- Main fund
- MCM BANYAN
- Main fund
- MOTIVATE OF FUND I, LP
- Main fund
- MCM KLOVER SERIES
- Main fund
- MCM FRONTDESK SERIES
- Main fund
- More funds
- 3 more recorded
SEC registration
- Registered adviser
- MOTIVATE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
- CRD number
- 314339 (opens in a new tab)
- SEC file number
- 802-130006
- Registration
- Exempt reporting adviser
- Regulatory AUM
- $248Mas of 2026-03-12
- Private funds reported
- 12
- Principal office
- CHICAGO, IL, United States
- SEC CIK
- 1795520, 1834500, 1921632
Locations
- Office
- Chicago, IL, United States
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