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Motivate Venture Capital

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Company overview

Motivate Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups. Target first check size is $500k-$2mm and ours is typically the first professional capital in a business. We target 15%+ ownership and 10x+ returns on each of our investments.Warm email intros from other professional investors are best or entrepreneurs can reach out and tell us more about their startup and its funding needs here: www.motivate.vc/fundingWe haven’t mastered any of the social media platforms' messaging systems yet so heads up that we don't usually check those messages.
Founded in 2019
Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 employees

Salaries

Typical salary range

$80,000 – $125,000

/ yr

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People

Headcount trend

Company growth over the last 12 months

Headcount +27.3% year over year

Funding

Total funding

$204.7M

Last raise

$81M

, 3 years ago

Funding history

Dec 2023

Motivate Venture Capital Fund II · $81M

Mar 2022

Motivate Ventures AI Fund II · $19.8M

Mar 2022

Motivate Ventures QP Fund II · $61M

Nov 2020

MOTIVATE VENTURES FUND I · $43M

Audience

Monthly website visitors
7.2K
Month over month+86.2%
Quarter over quarter-23.9%
Top sourceDirect (48.1%)
Ad budget per month$0.0
Average search rank27.4
Traffic source mix
Direct
48.1%
Search
28.8%
Social
13.9%
Referral
7.4%
Paid referral
1.5%

LinkedIn followers

Follower count and growth

Total followers

7.3K

12-mo growth

+32.9%

Monthly growth

+5.1%

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