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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.

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Lauren DeLuca

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I am a Founder and General Partner of Motivate Venture Capital, a Chicago-based Seed investor. Currently investing out of Fund 2. I co-founded a family of FinTech firms and have been an active Angel investor. In 2012, I co-founded Sailfish Systems, a managed services and market data provider for trading firms, banks, and hedge funds. Sailfish merged with Victory Networks in 2013 to serve clients across the US and Europe. The combined business was ultimately sold to QuantHouse, a Paris-based trading technology provider, in 2017. I co-founded Oxford Intelligence Partners at the beginning of 2015, a boutique stock market-analytics firm. Clients included many Fortune 500 companies before a successful exit to Q4 Inc., a Toronto-based strategic acquirer serving 1000+ clients. My personal Angel portfolio spans a multitude of B2B/B2C verticals and contains over fifty early- and growth-stage businesses. I received my MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame.

Jackson Bubala

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Principal at Motivate Venture Capital

Courtney Trunk

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Early-Stage Investor @ Motivate Ventures

David Wieland

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David is a serial founder and venture investor. Currently, David serves as co-founder and managing partner of Motivate Venture Capital, a $200M AUM venture firm investing in tech or tech-enabled companies in the US and Canada. David has made personal investments in over 150 startups and funds including Chime, Public.com, Robinhood, Pipe, Pantera Capital, Unsplash, HomeChef, NoRedInk, and Techstars. David previously co-founded and served as Chairman of Notre Dame-affiliated IrishAngels. Prior to his investment career, David founded and eventually sold several companies including hotel wi-fi management company InnFlux, web-hosting company Powersurge, and digital interview company RIVS. Through the Amelia Claire Foundation, in memory of their daughter, David and his wife, along with their three other children assist families who have lost children. David enjoys fishing, skiing, traveling, and philanthropy. David received his BA from Notre Dame and MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

Yusuf Ghani

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Associate at McKinsey & Company