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Motive Partners Named to TIME America’s Top Venture Capital Firms 2026
Latest recognition adds to a year of momentum across Motive’s integrated Venture, Growth and Buyout platform, its next generation of investment leaders and companies across the firm’s ecosystem
Growing bench of high-caliber operators and exclusive focus on financial technology reinforce firm’s differentiated Investor-Operator-Innovator model
NEW YORK, August 18, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Motive Partners (“Motive”), a specialist private investment firm focused exclusively on financial technology and technology-enabled business services, today announced that it has been named to TIME America’s Top Venture Capital Firms 2026, the latest in a series of high-profile recognitions for the firm, its people, platform and companies across the Motive Partners ecosystem.
The TIME recognition showcases venture capital firms helping shape the next generation of transformative companies, with consideration given to factors including fundraising, deployment, investment performance and hands-on leadership. For Motive, the accolade is particularly significant because Venture is part of an integrated investment platform spanning early-stage Venture through Growth Equity and Buyout, bringing together investors, experienced operators and technology innovators through its proven Investor-Operator-Innovator (IOI) model.
The distinction comes amid a year of growing external recognition. Motive has also been recognized by GrowthCap among its Top Growth Equity Firms and for its private equity platform, and its value-creation capabilities earned Large Cap Deal of the Year recognition from Actum, following the successful $1.8 billion sale of With Intelligence to S&P Global after its transformation into a scaled, technology-enabled private markets data and analytics platform. In addition, members of Motive’s next generation of investment leadership have also earned recognition from GrowthCap, Financial News and Private Equity International, reflecting the depth of talent developing across the firm.
“This recognition from TIME is meaningful because Venture is an essential part of the ecosystem we have been building at Motive,” said Rob Heyvaert, Founder and Managing Partner of Motive Partners. “We founded Motive around a simple conviction: financial technology is too important, too complex and moving too quickly to approach as a generalist. You need investors who understand capital, operators who have run these businesses, and innovators who understand how technology is changing them. When you bring those capabilities together from Venture through Growth and Buyout, you create something much more powerful than any one strategy on its own.”
