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Lauren Deluca
Managing Partner at Motivate Investor
Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Lauren DeLuca is the Managing Partner at Motivate Venture Capital, overseeing investments in various sectors like Payments, FinTech, and SaaS across different regions. With a strong background in entrepreneurship and strategic planning, she has successfully co-founded and managed several companies, such as Lakepoint Ventures and Victory Networks, leading to successful acquisitions and partnerships.
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2019 - Current
Motivate Ventures invests in early-stage high-growth potential technology companies. For more, visit www.motivate.vc.
Motivate Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in Pre-seed and Seed-stage companies across the US and Canada.
Founder/Managing Partner
2011
Private vehicle for Early-Stage investments. Select Seed investments: Chime - chimecard.com - The bank account that helps you save money, automatically. TradingView - tradingview.com - The best interactive stock charts on the web. HomeChef (acquired) - homechef.com - We make cooking fresh food at home as easy as possible. RIVS (acquired) - rivs.com - Digital Interviews. Hire Better. Appcast (acquired) - appcast.io - The first pay-per-applicant job ad exchange. Maystreet (acquired) - maystreet.com - Market data, connectivity, and analytics for global banks and hedge funds. Gatsby (acquired) - trygatsby.com - Free options trading, simplified. Popular Pays (acquired) - popularpays.com - Connects brands and stories with creators. Mimir (acquired) - mimir.io - Tools for instructors to efficiently teach Computer Science courses. ElevateK12 - elevatek12.com - Live, online classroom to increase student engagement and learning. OpenYield - openyld.com - Automated liquidity across Corporate Bonds, Munis and Treasuries. Moby - moby.co - The best investing research in the world, simplified. iAsk.ai - iask.ai - Instant, accurate, and factual answers for researchers and academics. Sunset - sunsethq.com - Removes the legal, tax, and operational burden when winding-down a startup. Trace - traceup.com - The world's most advanced action sports tracker. Athena Bitcoin - athenabitcoin.com - Global Bitcoin ATM network. PestShare - pestshare.com - On-demand Pest Control to elevate the residential experience. Axle - axleaccess.com - Modern equities distribution platform.
Director (Acquired)
2012 - 2019
Digital interviews make it possible to evaluate skills and attitudes that usually don't appear on a resume, reducing the time spent interviewing by 60% while allowing companies to hire the best people before they are off the market. RIVS was acquired by Clovis Point Capital in March 2019.
RIVS is web software facilitating voice and video interviews, job application management, and efficient hiring.
Raised $4,087,999.00 from Delancey Street Partners and Clovis Point Capital.
Co-Founder (Acquired)
2013 - 2017
Victory Networks designs, implements, and manages high-speed networks for bulge-bracket banks, boutique financial firms, and hedge funds. Victory was acquired by QuantHouse (Paris, France) in 2017.
Co-Founder
2008 - 2017
Sumo Capital is a multi-strategy trading firm focused on Equity and Equity Index Options, International Equities, Special Situations and a multitude of other exchange-based products. With offices in Chicago and New York, Sumo provides individual traders and trading teams with financial resources and quantitative, operational, technical and compliance support.
Co-Founder/Managing Partner (Acquired)
2014 - 2015
Oxford Intelligence Partners provides specialized capital markets intelligence, customized analytics, and C-Level reporting to investor relations professionals at publicly-traded companies. In September 2015, Oxford was acquired by Q4 Inc., a SaaS platform that provides communication and intelligence solutions to investor relations officers and the C-suite of public companies