About Motier
Motier is a venture capital firm founded in 2021. It is primarily based out of Paris, France. As of Mar 2026, Motier is an active investor, having invested in 70 companies, with 5 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in France based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of PAVE Space Overall, Motier portfolio has seen 3 unicorns and 1 acquisition including key companies like Mistral AI, Mirakl and Poolside. A lot of funds co-invest with Motier, with names like Kima Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Motier has team of 9 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 3 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Unicorns
Deals in last 12 months
Motier's List of Top Investments
Motier has a portfolio of 70 companies, including 3 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Freqens and Numias.Their portfolio spans across France, United States, United Kingdom and 6 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Retail and 20 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by Motier:1. Mistral AI
Developer of frontier AI models, assistants, agents, and related services. It builds tailored AI systems for organizations. The company offers tools to train, fine-tune, and build open source models. It provides enterprise agents with orchestration, tooling, and safety features. The company enables private deployments on-premises, cloud, edge, and devices, while retaining data control. It delivers assistance from AI scientists across deployment, solutioning, and safety.
Key facts about Mistral AI
- Founded Year: 2023
- Location: Paris (France)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $3.05B
- Employee Count: 934 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Index Ventures, Credit Agricole CIB and 46 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Mar 30, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Mirakl
Cloud-based e-commerce suite solutions for marketplace businesses. The platform enables both B2B and B2C businesses to launch a marketplace platform, and multi-channel retailers to create their online businesses. The features for seller includes onboarding, multi-vendor inventory management, ordemanagement, customer management, billing, security, performance analysis, and more.
Key facts about Mirakl
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Paris (France)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $948M
- Employee Count: 885 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Silver Lake, Societe Generale and 33 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Aug 01, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Deblock
Platform offering a self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet. The users can spend, transfer and exchange pounds or cryptocurrencies. The wallet features multiple currencies, currency exchange, banking solutions, and more. It allows users to personalize cards with NFTs.
Key facts about Deblock
- Founded Year: 2022
- Location: Lille (France)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $59.7M
- Employee Count: 126 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Headline, Speedinvest and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Nov 19, 2025, $*****
4. Dfns
Custodian solutions for cryptocurrencies. It offers an API for managing crypto, signing transactions, establishing business rules, and keeping track of security. It contains a set of instructions for creating a custodial infrastructure for scalability across crypto markets.
Key facts about Dfns
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $29.6M
- Employee Count: 84 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Astir Ventures, Techstars and 18 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jan 14, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Animaj
Provider of multi-platform franchises for kids and families through IP acquisition. The company acquires high-quality intellectual properties and transforms them into franchises across multiple platforms. It independently produces content designed to inspire children to dream, explore, and create. The company utilizes data analysis of real-time trends to understand children's preferences and employs automation tools to distribute stories across various platforms.
Key facts about Animaj
Motier's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Motier has invested in 70 companies over the last 6 years, with an average of 11 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 9 investments, while as of Mar 2026, it has made 2 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in PAVE Space and most recent follow-on round was in Linkup.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2025 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
2024 | 19 | 5 | 24 |
2023 | 21 | 2 | 23 |
2022 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Motier's Investments by Stage
Motier has made 39 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $17.6M, 14 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $18M, 1 investment in Conventional Debt stage, 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $10.9M and 1 investment in Series D stage with an average round size of $300M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 39 |
Series A | 14 |
Conventional Debt | 1 |
Series B | 1 |
Series D | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Motier's Investments by Sector
Motier has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer, FinTech and Retail. Notably, it has invested in 63 Tech companies, 46 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 44 Software companies and at least 23 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 32 |
High Tech | 23 |
Consumer | 12 |
FinTech | 11 |
Retail | 11 |
Others | 47 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Motier's Investments by Geography
Motier has made most investments in France (40), followed by United States where it has made 7 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
France | 40 |
United States | 7 |
United Kingdom | 3 |
Germany | 1 |
Israel | 1 |
Others | 4 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Motier's recent investments
Motier has made 2 investments in 2026 so far - PAVE Space and Linkup.Here are the most recent investments by Motier:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Mar 25, 2026 | Switzerland | Seed | 5590 | [+8] | |
Feb 03, 2026 | France | Seed | 5880 | [+11] | |
Dec 16, 2025 | France | Seed | 6974 | [+4] | |
Oct 23, 2025 | France | Series A | 1432 | [+1] | |
Jul 01, 2025 | United States | Seed | 4996 | [+13] |
Unicorns in Motier's Portfolio
Motier has 3 unicorns in its portfolio - Poolside, Mistral AI and Mirakl. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Poolside. It became a unicorn in 2024, 1 years after Motier first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in Motier's portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
59 | Developer of artificial intelligence models and systems for software engineering | 2023 | San Francisco | Series B | bvtdggx | ||
83 | Developer of frontier AI models, assistants, agents, and related services | 2023 | Paris | Series C | kooku{k | ||
72 | Cloud-based e-commerce suite solutions for marketplace businesses | 2012 | Paris | Series E | rrpcoj{ |
Acquired companies in Motier's Portfolio
1 company from Motier's portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Ida in Dec 2025 by RELEX.Here are Motier's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 18, 2025 | Nov 16, 2023 | Seed | 7680 |
Team profile of Motier
Motier has a team of 9 members including 2 Partners and 3 Principals located in France. Motier's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Motier:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Paris | - | ||
Partner | France | - | ||
Principal | Paris | - | ||
Principal | France | - | ||
Principal | France | - |
Co-investors of Motier
Over the past 6 years, 450 investors have co-invested in Motier's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Motier: Kima Ventures, Y Combinator and 71 others have invested in rounds before Motier. There are 3 companies where Kima Ventures has invested before Motier and 3 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Motier.
- Top Co-investors of Motier: 283 investors entered a company along with Motier. These include investors like Kima Ventures (20 companies).
- Invested after Motier: A total of 94 investors have invested in Motier's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include HSBC (3 companies), General Catalyst (2 companies) and Bpifrance (2 companies).
Recent News related to Motier
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PAVE Space Raises $40M for In-Space Propulsion TechPayload•Mar 25, 2026•PAVE Space, Visionaries Club, Creandum, Atlantic.vc and 5 others
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Linkup Raises $10M Seed Round Led by Gradient to Build Web Search for AIAccess Newswire•Feb 03, 2026•Linkup, Motier, Axeleo Capital, Weekend Fund and 4 others
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Palantir alums using AI to streamline patent filing secure $20 million in Series A venture fundingDNYUZ•Dec 17, 2025•Norrsken VC, Ankar AI, Atomico, Index Ventures and 8 others
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General Catalyst backs French healthtech firm in $8.5m seed roundTech in Asia•Dec 16, 2025•Kima Ventures, Lucis, Y Combinator, Motier and 1 other
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UK firm Ankar bags €3.5M to accelerate its ‘AI for inventors’ platformSilicon Canals•May 28, 2025•Ankar AI, Index Ventures, Motier, Daphni and 2 others
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Paris-Based Tomorro raises €25M to accelerate its AI-powered contract management platformSilicon Canals•Mar 31, 2025•Tomorro, XAnge, Veja, Nestle and 10 others
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E-commerce startup MarketLeap raises $8M Series A to expand its AI-powered global D2C platformTechStartups.com•Feb 12, 2025•MarketLeap, Smedvig Ventures, Expon Capital, Motier and 3 others
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MarketLeap Raises $8M in Series A FundingFinSMEs•Feb 12, 2025•MarketLeap, Smedvig Ventures, Expon Capital, Motier
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Crypto wallet technology company Dfns completes $16 million financingCoinTime•Jan 14, 2025•Dfns, Wintermute, Motive Partners, Bpifrance and 12 others
