Tim Wanders

Fintech Investor | Motive Partners

📍 Netherlands🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
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Board Observer
Feb 2025
Flanks is a WealthTech company redefining the industry through AI-powered automation and data-led insights. Its AI wealth data platform empowers global financial institutions - including banks, family offices, asset managers, pension plans providers, and tech companies - to deliver faster, high-quality, and personalised advice. Flanks provides a unified view of all asset classes, including alternatives, and leverages proprietary AI models to transform complex, fragmented wealth data into actionable insights. Founded in 2019 in Barcelona by Joaquim de la Cruz, Sergi Lao and Álvaro Morales, former Global Head of Santander Private Banking. Flanks now processes over 500,000 portfolios monthly across more than 33 countries, managing more than €39 billion in assets. For more information, visit flanks.io.
Board Member
Oct 2024
Titanbay is Europe’s fastest-growing private markets infrastructure provider, offering asset managers and distributors a simpler, more controlled way to deliver private markets. Our integrated platform, together with our AIFM, combines technology, operations and regulatory oversight to support the full lifecycle of private market funds across Europe. From structuring and onboarding to capital flows, reporting and compliance, we provide the infrastructure partners need to launch, scale and manage sophisticated investment programmes. Whether your focus is raising capital, distributing funds or expanding your private markets offering, Titanbay streamlines complexity and enhances operational efficiency, enabling you to prioritise your clients and long-term growth.
Board Member
Jul 2024
Corastone is the hyperscaler for private market investing, providing the modern infrastructure that enables straight-through processing for GPs, wealth managers and fund administrators. Through a single integration, participants gain access to a vast ecosystem of investment opportunities and counterparties, helping them grow their business with confidence. Solely focused on infrastructure, Corastone enables consistent, repeatable processes throughout the investment lifecycle, fostering visibility, control and seamless operations. Built on a permissioned blockchain, Corastone is purpose-built to support new workflows, innovative ideas and the rapidly evolving private markets.
Board Member
Aug 2023
Dfns is a leading Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform that helps fintechs, institutions, and enterprises worldwide simplify digital asset management and securely bring users into crypto. Our secure wallet APIs include Wallet Entitlement Management (WEM) for workflow governance and a Key Deployment Service (KDS) to manage multiple keys from one platform, ensuring global security, compliance, and regulatory standards. Our API-first approach has made Dfns the most popular developer platform to configure, automate and orchestrate digital asset applications and operations at scale. Powered by advanced security and cryptography, Dfns serves as the reliable multichain wallet backend for top players in banking, payments, trading, lending, and tokenization. Trusted by clients like ABN AMRO, Fidelity, Zodia Custody, Bridge, Stripe, and more than 100 financial applications, Dfns has created over 10 million wallets and secured $5 billion in transactions — zero hacks or lost keys. Incubated by Techstars and Station F, Dfns has raised $28M from investors like White Star Capital, Motive Partners, Bpifrance, Coinbase, Semantic, Wintermute, Figment, Motier, Hashed, 6MV, Susquehanna, and others.
Board Member
Jul 2022
Oper gives the paper-based mortgage industry access to a digital future. Our white-labelled product allows lenders and brokers to digitize the mortgage process from contact to contract, while increasing conversion and lowering the cost of a transaction. Oper Credits supports multiple leading mortgage providers around Europe. Using new EU regulations they enable one-click mortgages. The company is backed by leading B2B SaaS investors.
Board Member
May 2021
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Investor
Feb 2020
Fenergo develops leading SaaS financial technology solutions to improve client lifecycle management (CLM) and support regulatory compliance. We connect the world’s financial institutions with their customers to transform the overall experience and relationship. We help firms feel safe by continuously monitoring risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. By enabling operational efficiency and digital transformation, we drive value creation to solve the problems of today and anticipate those of tomorrow. Our technology enables financial institutions to transform the end-to client onboarding and lifecycle experience; continuously monitor risks and ensure regulatory compliance (across KYC, AML, ESG, Tax, SFTR, and Data Privacy frameworks); and enhance operational efficiency. Since 2009 we have developed best-in-class technology to help future proof financial institutions across the buy- and sell-sides. Today, with a global footprint across 14 countries, we remain committed to creating solutions that enable you to operate in complete confidence.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
OpenInvest is a fast-growing fintech with a mission to align capital with values. Formerly a Public Benefit Corporation backed by firms like Andreessen Horowitz and YCombinator, OpenInvest is now an independent subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase. Important Information and disclosures can be found here: https://privatebank.jpmorgan.com/gl/en/disclosures/social-media-important-information https://www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm/global/disclosures/disclosure-notice/social_media_policy.pdf
Investor (ED)
May 2018
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Experience · 11 entries
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Investments (9)
Board (7)
2025
Board Observer
Feb 2025
Flanks is a WealthTech company redefining the industry through AI-powered automation and data-led insights. Its AI wealth data platform empowers global financial institutions - including banks, family offices, asset managers, pension plans providers, and tech companies - to deliver faster, high-quality, and personalised advice. Flanks provides a unified view of all asset classes, including alternatives, and leverages proprietary AI models to transform complex, fragmented wealth data into actionable insights. Founded in 2019 in Barcelona by Joaquim de la Cruz, Sergi Lao and Álvaro Morales, former Global Head of Santander Private Banking. Flanks now processes over 500,000 portfolios monthly across more than 33 countries, managing more than €39 billion in assets. For more information, visit flanks.io.
2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
Titanbay is Europe’s fastest-growing private markets infrastructure provider, offering asset managers and distributors a simpler, more controlled way to deliver private markets. Our integrated platform, together with our AIFM, combines technology, operations and regulatory oversight to support the full lifecycle of private market funds across Europe. From structuring and onboarding to capital flows, reporting and compliance, we provide the infrastructure partners need to launch, scale and manage sophisticated investment programmes. Whether your focus is raising capital, distributing funds or expanding your private markets offering, Titanbay streamlines complexity and enhances operational efficiency, enabling you to prioritise your clients and long-term growth.
Board Member
Jul 2024
Corastone is the hyperscaler for private market investing, providing the modern infrastructure that enables straight-through processing for GPs, wealth managers and fund administrators. Through a single integration, participants gain access to a vast ecosystem of investment opportunities and counterparties, helping them grow their business with confidence. Solely focused on infrastructure, Corastone enables consistent, repeatable processes throughout the investment lifecycle, fostering visibility, control and seamless operations. Built on a permissioned blockchain, Corastone is purpose-built to support new workflows, innovative ideas and the rapidly evolving private markets.
2023
Principal
Oct 2023
Motive Ventures is the early-stage investment arm of Motive Partners, focused on financial technology investments in North America and Europe. Motive Ventures is backed by globally recognized financial institutions, venture investors, tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans. Together, they support our mission to drive innovation and reshape the future of finance. Today, the team consists of 15 employees across New York, Berlin, London and Amsterdam. To get in touch with the Motive Ventures team, please email: mv@motivepartners.com To register for our newsletter, please visit: https://lnkd.in/enr9sHD4
Principal, Ventures
Oct 2023
Motive Partners is a private investment firm exclusively focused on financial technology and technology-enabled business services companies, ranging from early-stage ventures to growth equity and buyout, primarily based in North America and Europe. The firm invests across five primary subsectors: Banking & Payments; Capital Markets; AI, Data & Analytics; Insurance; and Wealth and Asset Management; and Motive Partners portfolio companies benefit from the firm’s fully integrated, proven Investor, Operator, Innovator (IOI) model, which brings together world-class fintech leaders and capabilities with deep industry knowledge, insight and experience. With offices in New York City, London, and Berlin, Motive Partners delivers differentiated expertise, connectivity, and capabilities to create long-term value in financial technology companies. More information on Motive Partners can be found at www.motivepartners.com.
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