- Founded: 2016
- Headquarters: New York, NY
- AUM: $6.5B1
- Strategies: Growth & Buyout and Venture
- bunch customer since: 2023
About Motive Partners
Motive Partners is a private investment firm exclusively focused on financial technology and technology-enabled business services companies, ranging from early-stage venture to growth and buyout, primarily based in North America and Europe. The firm invests across six primary subsectors: Banking & Payments, CapitalMarkets, AI, Data & Analytics, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management,and Business Services. Motive Partners portfolio companies benefit from the firm’s fully-integrated, proven Investor, Operator, Innovator (IOI) model,which brings together world-class fintech leaders and capabilities with deep industry knowledge, insight and experience. With offices in New York City, London, and Berlin, Motive Partners delivers differentiated expertise, connectivity, and capabilities to create long-term value in financial technology companies.
Motive has raised $6.51 billion across two investment arms: Motive Capital and Motive Ventures. Motive Ventures is the early-stage strategy of Motive Partners, partnering with fintech founders in Europe and North America and managing more than 50 portfolio companies.
[1] Calculated as of December 31, 2025 as the aggregate of(i) MCF1 final close capital commitments, MCF2 final close capital commitments,Motive Early Stage (A) ("MES (A)"), Motive Early Stage (E) (“MES(E)”) (together Motive Venture Fund 1 (“MVF1”), and Motive Venture Fund 2(“MVF2”) capital commitments, and separately managed account commitments(together, comprising $2.7B), (ii) co-investment capital raised through Motive-managed co-investment vehicles (comprising $1.3B), and (iii) co-investment capital attributable to third-party co-investors and syndicate members thatinvested directly in a co-investment opportunity in which a Motive-managed co-investment vehicle also invested and with respect to which Motive (1) identified, sourced or presented such opportunity to such third parties, and/or(2) enabled such third parties to invest in such opportunity, whether through the provision of relevant industry expertise, technical support or otherwise (comprising $2.4B).
The challenge: securing a next-gen European provider with specialised capabilities
As Motive looked to scale its investment programme, a technology-driven investor platform supporting our European funds was a clear priority. The manual workflows around fund administration and investor reporting created operational inefficiencies and relied on traditional software. Motive needed modern, transparent, always-on infrastructure to support the operations of our European-domiciled funds and to provide user-friendly, transparent reporting to its globally distributed LP base.
Kristy Trieste
Founding Partner, CFO & COO at Motive Partners
"The investor portal has streamlined our LP engagement. By providing a single digital touchpoint for commitments, capital calls, and reporting, bunch has delivered the self-service experience that modern institutional investors now expect as a baseline."
The decision: why Motive chose bunch
Motive first migrated an initial fund to bunch using a digitised, checklist-driven workflow and a secure data room for historical records. All legacy fund data (structures, LPs, capital calls, and reports) was rebuilt inside the bunch platform.
After experiencing the operational uplift, Motive migrated a second fund to a single, unified dashboard. LPs who are invested across multiple vehicles now access all information through a single login, with aligned reporting, documents, tasks, and KPIs.
Motive selected bunch for three core reasons:
1. A fully digital, end-to-end system
bunch's platform provides one centralised resource for Fund documents, capital activity and tracking, quarterly reporting, tax information, and other investor information needs.
2. Scalable infrastructure backed by specialist service
Data migration at initial onboarding leveraged automated data ingestion tools to minimise the burden of manual migration on Motive. Today, bunch’s automated workflows provide a clearer record of controls across operations. A dedicated fund support team provides added review and collaborates regularly with the Motive team.
3. A modern system of record to back the firm
For a firm dedicated to excellence, maintaining a “legacy” back office was incompatible with their vision. Motive requires institutional-grade, always-on infrastructure to manage the increasing complexity of their multi-vehicle strategy and cater to the needs of their globally distributed LP base.
Ramin Niroumand
Partner, Investments & Head of Venture at Motive Partners
“As a firm betting on the next generation of fintech innovators in private markets, our own infrastructure must be a benchmark for the excellence we seek in our founders. bunch is pioneering a new industry standard with what they call 'Fund Intelligence,’ transforming fund data and operations intoactionable insights and predictive intelligence.”
The impact: institutionalising digital infrastructure
By deploying bunch tools, Motive has shifted its European-domiciled funds from administrator-dependent processes to autonomous, data-driven operations:
- Investor Portal: Capital calls are calculated and dispatched via a single centralized portal, while historical performance data are accessible through secure data rooms.
- Fund Admin Service: Assistance with ad hoc LP questions and service updates reduces workflows. Manage regulatory reporting and posting of quarterly statements to keep Motive’s LPs informed.
These capabilities added to a foundation of a digitised, transparent, and scalable operating environment, enabling Motive to shift from manual, administrator-dependent processes to institutionalised, data-driven infrastructure.
Future with bunch: scaling intelligently
Motive’s goal is to provide investors with a digital and scalable infrastructure powering every phase of the fund lifecycle. The bunch platform is engineered to support future portfolio expansion and new investment strategies without increasing operational overhead.
As private markets converge toward transparency and real-time data, Motive Partners stands at the forefront; equipped with a modern operational backbone built for the next generation of financial technology.
