Julia Hubo

Investor at Motive Partners

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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2026
finperks is building the first global pre-paid infrastructure that turns gift cards into scalable cashback and tax-free employee benefits. With our API-first orchestration platform, we connect global distributors and brands to banks and HR platforms. Compliant, seamless, and margin-optimized. Our solution enables banks/neo-banks/payment apps to launch cashback programs and HR SaaS providers to integrate tax-free employee benefits, scalable across the EU and US. Find an array of our use-cases & industries here: https://finperks.com/ We are a growing team of enthusiastic people in a tech-first culture. Join the Perk Squad!
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2025
Steward is on a mission to tackle one of the hardest and most complicated spaces - onboarding in the investment world. This is a world convoluted by complex structures like discretionary trusts, hybrid partnership structures and offshore tax havens with limited access to reliable data. Where other KYC/AML providers tackling this space stop at collecting information, Steward uses AI to make complying effortless for compliance teams and investors alike.
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2025
Neno is a full-stack AI financial services company merging financial technology with embedded professional payroll, accounting and tax services - everything an entrepreneur needs without the admin headache or high fees that come with it. Behind it all is a team of ambitious, curious and slightly unconventional AI builders, ex-founders, fintech operators, chartered accountants and creatives from all over the world who hate admin just as much as you do. If you thrive in a high-commitment, high-reward culture and want the autonomy to deliver your best work, neno will be the most exciting mission you ever join. Backed by Firstminute Capital, Motive Partners and angels from Miro, a16z, Coinbase, Mollie, Juni, Deel, Navro, Copper, Wise and PayPal.
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2023
ThreatFabric is fusing 15 years of leading threat research and fraud experience with next-gen technology to detect the latest fraud threats. No matter the regulations, and no matter how relentless the criminals, we ensure the best channel fraud prevention across the globe. Our customers are prepared for any eventuality, earning their customers trust worldwide.
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2022
Headquartered in London, Navro’s payments curation platform enables multinational corporations to move money globally on the best payment and banking infrastructure via a single API. Navro makes the complex simple, curating the optimal rails and routes for each payment while automatically fulfilling regulatory requirements. With its expertise in managing large volumes of transactions in multiple jurisdictions alongside the associated compliance obligations, Navro’s payments curation platform is well-suited to pension and payroll solutions providers and Employer of Record platforms. Navro currently processes workforce payouts for more than 200 large corporations and executes international payments for 1,700 pension schemes. Navro Statutory & Tax is the first service available globally to fulfil all mandatory tax deductions, statutory payments and regulatory reporting alongside payroll payouts in a single payment flow. The service can execute all statutory and tax requirements in 95 countries.
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2022
luca ist eine Plattform, die für die Hospitality-Industrie und ihre Gäste geschaffen wurde. Vom Check-in/ Check-out und Reservierungen über Bestellungen zu den Bezahlungen: luca verbindet heute alle Berührungspunkte der Gäste in einem einheitlichen Flow. Doch damit sind wir noch nicht zufrieden: Es geht darum, eine komplette und reibungslose Customer Journey anzubieten, die Hotels, Events und Restaurants gleichermaßen betrachtet. Auf diesem Channel möchten wir euch mitnehmen auf unserem Weg zu einer "truly seamless hospitality experience", teilen Meilensteine und große und kleine Erfolge und geben euch einen Einblick in unsere Art zu arbeiten. Wir freuen uns über alle, die uns auf dieser Reise begleiten! Impressum: https://www.luca-business.com/legal/impressum ‍culture4life GmbH Mörikestraße 67 70199 Stuttgart Germany Datenschutzerklärung: https://www.luca-business.com/legal/datenschutz/social-media-privacy-policy
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2022
Customize everything you need to make payments, control spend, and optimize finance operations using one credit card platform. Pliant is a European fintech specializing in B2B payment solutions. Our modular, API-first platform helps businesses streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into their financial workflows. Designed for industries with complex payment needs, such as travel and fleet, Pliant enables greater efficiency, control, and profitability. We serve two primary customer segments: - Companies looking to optimize operational processes through intuitive apps and APIs, gaining control, automation, and financial flexibility through extended credit lines. - Companies such as financial software platforms, ERP providers, and banks that want to launch or enhance their credit card offerings using Pliant’s embedded finance and white-label solutions. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant supports over 3,500 businesses and more than 20 partners globally. As a licensed e-money institution (EMI), we issue Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, helping companies streamline and simplify payments. Learn more at http://www.getpliant.com/
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2021
The Aufinity Group is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Europe and has a vision of making Autonomous Finance the standard in the automotive industry. With its product brands bezahl.de in German-speaking countries and Aufinity for international markets, order-to-cash processes are digitized and accelerated. The aim is to simplify financial processes so that partners can concentrate on what matters most—their customers, their business, and their goals.
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2026
Investor
2026
finperks is building the first global pre-paid infrastructure that turns gift cards into scalable cashback and tax-free employee benefits. With our API-first orchestration platform, we connect global distributors and brands to banks and HR platforms. Compliant, seamless, and margin-optimized. Our solution enables banks/neo-banks/payment apps to launch cashback programs and HR SaaS providers to integrate tax-free employee benefits, scalable across the EU and US. Find an array of our use-cases & industries here: https://finperks.com/ We are a growing team of enthusiastic people in a tech-first culture. Join the Perk Squad!
2025
Investor
2025
Steward is on a mission to tackle one of the hardest and most complicated spaces - onboarding in the investment world. This is a world convoluted by complex structures like discretionary trusts, hybrid partnership structures and offshore tax havens with limited access to reliable data. Where other KYC/AML providers tackling this space stop at collecting information, Steward uses AI to make complying effortless for compliance teams and investors alike.
Investor
2025
Neno is a full-stack AI financial services company merging financial technology with embedded professional payroll, accounting and tax services - everything an entrepreneur needs without the admin headache or high fees that come with it. Behind it all is a team of ambitious, curious and slightly unconventional AI builders, ex-founders, fintech operators, chartered accountants and creatives from all over the world who hate admin just as much as you do. If you thrive in a high-commitment, high-reward culture and want the autonomy to deliver your best work, neno will be the most exciting mission you ever join. Backed by Firstminute Capital, Motive Partners and angels from Miro, a16z, Coinbase, Mollie, Juni, Deel, Navro, Copper, Wise and PayPal.
2023
Investor
2023
ThreatFabric is fusing 15 years of leading threat research and fraud experience with next-gen technology to detect the latest fraud threats. No matter the regulations, and no matter how relentless the criminals, we ensure the best channel fraud prevention across the globe. Our customers are prepared for any eventuality, earning their customers trust worldwide.
2022
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2022
Headquartered in London, Navro’s payments curation platform enables multinational corporations to move money globally on the best payment and banking infrastructure via a single API. Navro makes the complex simple, curating the optimal rails and routes for each payment while automatically fulfilling regulatory requirements. With its expertise in managing large volumes of transactions in multiple jurisdictions alongside the associated compliance obligations, Navro’s payments curation platform is well-suited to pension and payroll solutions providers and Employer of Record platforms. Navro currently processes workforce payouts for more than 200 large corporations and executes international payments for 1,700 pension schemes. Navro Statutory & Tax is the first service available globally to fulfil all mandatory tax deductions, statutory payments and regulatory reporting alongside payroll payouts in a single payment flow. The service can execute all statutory and tax requirements in 95 countries.
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