Overview

What they do
Motivate Venture Capital is a venture capital firm focused on very early-stage, high-growth startups. The firm positions itself as providing venture capital to companies at the earliest stages of development. Its branding emphasizes supporting startups with strong growth potential.
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What they look for
MVC invests in optimism, ingenuity, and humanity's insatiable desire to creatively improve, backing founders with strong domain knowledge tackling real, durable problems with high growth potential in large and growing markets.
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Stage
Ideation, Pre-seed, Seed
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Sectors
AI, SaaS, Fintech, Marketplace
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Based
Chicago, US
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Sources

2026-08-27motivate.vcSeed Stage Venture Capital. We are early stage specialists, having have spent our careers…
2026-08-27motivate.vcMVC invests in optimism, ingenuity, and humanity’s insatiable desire to creatively improve. We…
2026-08-27motivate.vcMeet our portfolio All AI / ML Enterprise Software FinTech Marketplace Service Providers
2026-08-27motivate.vcFulcrum is a SaaS manufacturing platform designed and built from scratch to bring modern and…

Portfolio, cheque size and the rest

The 22 companies they have backed that we can see, the cheque they write, and whether they are deploying right now.

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