Marco Neuhaus joined Motive Partners in 2025 as a Venture Partner on the Ventures team, based in the Berlin office. At Motive, he focuses on value creation across the broader platform, with a particular emphasis on portfolio companies and emerging trends in private debt, as well as wealth and asset management.

Marco is a seasoned financial executive and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in venture capital, fintech, investment management, and capital markets. Prior to joining Motive, he served as CIO at IANUA Markets in London, where he led product innovation and investment strategy for a tech-enabled B2B investment platform focused on alternative assets. Previously, Marco co-founded Elinvar, a Berlin-based digital platform serving the wealth and asset management industry. Under his leadership, the company grew to over 150 employees, generated multimillion-euro revenues, and oversaw billions in assets under administration (AUA), backed by investors such as Goldman Sachs.

Marco was also an early team member at FinLeap, first as a Venture Partner and later as CFO. He played a key role in securing institutional funding and launching the firm’s initial ventures. Notably, he designed the business model and served as Venture Partner for PAIR Finance, a successful AI-powered collections platform that was later acquired by Pollen Street Capital. Earlier in his career, Marco held senior investment roles at Talanx Investment Group, where he managed multi-billion-euro portfolios and oversaw global outsourcing mandates. He began his professional journey in global markets and macroeconomic research at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.

Marco holds a PhD in Economics from Universität Mannheim, an MSc in Global Market Economics from the London School of Economics, and completed the ACE program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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