Motion Capital
New Zealand venture capital fund investing in climate-tech companies across battery recycling, critical minerals, energy systems and lower-emissions industrial processes.
Motion Capital is a New Zealand-based venture capital fund that invests in technology companies whose businesses contribute to global decarbonisation. The fund describes its approach as hands-on, working closely with founders and stating an intention to move quickly and with conviction. Its stated objective combines two measures of success: meaningful climate impact and strong commercial outcomes.
Investment activity spans a set of hard-technology domains relevant to emissions reduction. Areas of interest include battery recycling and metals recovery from end-of-life batteries, critical minerals processing, energy systems and energy economics optimisation, geological hydrogen, coal-free ironmaking, and lower-emissions industrial processes. The portfolio pattern suggests a bias towards industrial and materials technologies rather than software-only climate applications. Geographic presence is recorded as New Zealand.
Beyond the fund, Motion Capital operates a climate startup accelerator in partnership with Creative HQ, an arrangement intended to connect early-stage founders with funding and a wider support network. The firm does not publish check sizes, fund vintage, team size, or assets under management.