February 28th, 2013

Motif Now Allows Users To Build Their Own Idea-Focused Investment Vehicles

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Motif Investing, a vehicle that allows you to invest in ideas, is now allowing individuals, organizations and brands to create and share their own collections of stocks or exchange-traded funds online—and, soon, make money when other investors buy them. → Read More

August 17th, 2012

Investment Vehicle For Ideas, Motif Expands To Fixed-Income Products

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Motif Investing, a vehicle that allows you to invest in ideas, is expanding its offerings today to include the ability to invest in 10 new fixed income “motifs,” which are specialized portfolios of bond ETFs tied to certain macro-economic trends.

As we’ve written in the past, Motif was founded last year to give individuals a new way to invest based on themes. Instead of choosing to buy stock… → Read More

July 25th, 2011

Former Microsoft Exec Raises $20 Million For Motif, An Investment Vehicle For Ideas

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Motif Investing, a new vehicle that allows you to invest in ideas, has raised $20 million in Series B financing led by Ignition Partners with participation from Norwest Venture Partners and Foundation Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $26 million.

Motif, which is in private beta, was founded by former Microsoft executive Hardeep Walia and hedge fund analyst Tariq Hilaly to… → Read More