Hugo Bongers

Partner at Motive Ventures

Amsterdam, North Holland

Overview 

Hugo Bongers is a Partner at Motive Ventures in Amsterdam, with a background in investments, private equity, and banking. He has held key roles at companies like ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and has served on boards of various organizations, demonstrating expertise in corporate finance and leveraged finance. Bongers' career highlights include his current role as a Partner at Motive Ventures, where he focuses on investments in sectors like Payments, FinTech, and CleanTech, and his previous position as Managing Director and Head of ABN AMRO Ventures, showcasing his leadership in the finance industry.

Work Experience 

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Motive Ventures

  • Partner

    2023 - Current

    Motive Ventures is the early-stage investment arm of Motive Partners, focused on pre-seed through to Series A financial technology investments in North America and Europe (incl. Israel). Motive Ventures is backed by globally recognized tech entrepreneurs, industry veterans as well as leading institutions and venture investors. Motive Ventures is based in Berlin, London and New York. https://www.linkedin.com/company/motiveventures/mycompany/

Motive Ventures is the early-stage investment arm of Motive Partners

motivepartners.com
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ThreatFabric

  • Board Member

    2023

H

Hadrian

  • Board Member

    2023

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ThetaRay

  • Board Observer

    2019

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Ockto

  • Board Member

    2018

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Solarisbank AG

  • Board Observer

    2018

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ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

  • Managing Director, Head of ABN AMRO Ventures

    2017 - 2023

    - EUR150mio corporate venture capital fund of ABN AMRO - Investing in early stage (fin)tech companies in Europe, US and Israel with investments between EUR2-15mio - Align with ABN AMROs strategic pillars across all business lines and support groups - Ranging from topics like banking infrastructure, embedded finance, API connectivity, KYC/AML & more - 25 investments (Tink, Behaviosec, solarisBank, Ockto, Crosslend, Tealium, Trifacta, Thetaray, Fenergo, Penta, Privitar, OpenInvest, Quantexa, PrimaryBid, Bux, Upvest, Receeve, Laka, DFNS, Oper, Doconomy, Hadrian, ThreatFabric), 8 succesfull exits

Pb

Penta by Qonto

  • Board Member (Penta was aquired by Qonto)

    2020 - 2022

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CrossLend

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2022

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BehavioSec

  • Board Observer (Behaviosec was acquired by LexisNexus)

    2018 - 2022

BehavioSec is the pioneer for behavioral biometrics and continuous authentication, protecting millions of users and billions of transactions

Raised $25,681,285.00 from ABN AMRO Ventures, Cisco Investments, Conor Venture Partners, Forgepoint Capital and Octopus Ventures.

behaviosec.com

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