
Removing the friction between climate intent and climate action
We invest where technical credibility meets climate impact.Focus on teams who want to build, ship, and scale.
Deploy capital across grants, seed rounds, and early growth financing
Prioritize gigaton-level emissions reductions or unlock critical climate infrastructure
Motivate was founded by Ashish Motivala and Nilu Motiwala, investors and philanthropists working at the intersection of climate, technology, and social impact. Their work spans early-stage climate investing, funding climate justice and community-based solutions globally, and supporting institutions that translate research into real-world change. Across philanthropy and venture, they focus on backing people with deep technical insight, a bias toward action, and ambitions aligned with the scale of the climate challenge.
We don’t run a broad inbound funnel, but we’re always interested in serious teams working on ambitious climate solutions. We don’t run a broad inbound funnel, but we’re always interested in serious teams working on ambitious climate solutions.
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