{"id":35015,"date":"2013-04-19T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T19:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35015"},"modified":"2013-04-30T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:49:35","slug":"hedge-fund-strategy-motif-investing-raises-25-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2013\/hedge-fund-strategy-motif-investing-raises-25-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Strategy &#8211; Motif Investing Raises $25 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iStock_000000679590Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-35017\" alt=\"iStock_000000679590Small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iStock_000000679590Small.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iStock_000000679590Small.jpg 718w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iStock_000000679590Small-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) \u00a0&#8211; Motif Investing, the company that pioneered ideas-based stock investing, has raised an additional $25 million in financing from a group of investors including Goldman Sachs &amp; Co. and existing Motif investors Foundation Capital, hedge funds Ignition Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Cohen, Managing Director of Principal Strategic Investments at Goldman, is joining Motif\u2019s board as an observer. This coupled with the investment is expected to deepen the firm\u2019s relationship with Motif.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled Goldman Sachs has decided to invest in our vision of bringing low-cost, transparent, theme-based investing to a broader audience,\u201d said Hardeep Walia, chief executive and co-founder of Motif. \u201cSince our launch last year, we have consistently added new features to our service, and it is great to have access to the deep expertise of Goldman Sachs to help us bring more value to our customers in the future.\u201d \u201cWe are pleased to be an investor in Motif, a company that has taken an innovative approach to traditional investing,\u201d said Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>Motif allows customers to invest online in theme-based portfolios of stocks, bonds and ETFs called motifs. Many of the motifs\u2014which focus on themes as diverse as tablet computing, healthy foods and global inflation\u2014are assembled by Motif\u2019s in-house research team and cost $9.95 to purchase. Earlier this year, Motif added a new feature allowing individuals, brands and registered investment advisers to build their own motifs from scratch. Later this year, Motif will allow other customers to discover and buy these \u201cBYO\u201d motifs on its site, enabling the motifs\u2019 creators to market their own investment ideas and receive compensation through a royalty program.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nFor\u00a0<a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) \u00a0&#8211; Motif Investing, the company that pioneered ideas-based stock investing, has raised an additional $25 million in financing from a group of investors including Goldman Sachs &amp; Co. and existing Motif investors Foundation Capital, hedge funds Ignition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35018,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35015\/revisions\/35018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}