Motley Fool Ventures

An early-stage fund that draws on The Motley Fool's brand, investing approach and communities, Motley Fool Ventures invests in private companies through a limited partnership. Its team brings more than a century of combined operating experience, and it describes its commitment as helping founders and adding meaningful, long-term value to the companies it backs.

Values the team sets out

The fund lists values that guide its work: fostering inclusion and belonging, doing great things together, searching for a better solution and then improving on it, enjoying the work, and playing hard and fair to win. The team says it is inspired by founders' diversity of thought and experience, and it says it wants its portfolio to reflect the vision of the future its founders set out.

Portfolio companies in health, workplace and consumer finance

Companies named in its material include Finli, which raised a seed round; Caribou; NatureBox, which was acquired by Hungry; Madison Reed; and Microshare, which launched an app to address labor shortages. Affectiva, which offers human emotion detection for automotive safety and consumer media analytics, was acquired by Smart Eye. Esusu reports rental payments to credit bureaus so that people with thin or marginalized credit histories can build financial resilience.