Technology is redrawing how companies operate, how infrastructure is deployed, how culture is created and how the physical world becomes programmable. The founders who see these shifts early are the ones who build what comes next.
We back exceptional founders early - and help them access the people, places and business ecosystem that turn ambition into momentum.
The founder is the story.
Motier is the leverage.
Motier invests the capital of a family that has been building, scaling and reinventing businesses for over a century.
We combine the speed and closeness of business angels with the resources, follow-on capacity and long-term mindset of an institutional investor.
It's easy to talk about backing founders. The harder part is making their ambition real. We believe the investor's job is to create leverage quietly.
The Wish Factory is how Motier turns its ecosystem into leverage for founders.
Support should be measured
by what it unlocks.
Some needs are specific to one company: an introduction, a hiring lead, a strategic conversation, a workspace, a founder-to-founder connection. When the ask is precise, we work to activate the right bridge.
Portfolio-wide sessions designed around recurring founder needs. A way to turn questions into shared learning and practical access.
Specific gatherings built around real startup needs — for example CFO events, operator dinners, founder circles or expert sessions — where founders can meet peers and people who have solved similar problems before.
Hands-on moments with technology leaders and ecosystem partners — from AI workshops to hackathons with companies such as Anthropic, Mistral and others — to help founders understand, test and adopt emerging capabilities.
LA
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Many of these bridges start at La Maison — our home for builders in the heart of Paris.
La Maison turns part of the Motier promise into something physical: a place where founders, operators, experts, investors, corporates and communities meet, host, work, test ideas and build trust.
The right room can change the next step. La Maison exists to bring the right people into the same room.
In every wave, the obvious applications appear first. The companies that endure are harder to spot — built by founders who see where behavior, infrastructure and distribution are really shifting, and move before the category is obvious.
We back founders who can read the next shift before it becomes consensus.
Motier is built around a small team that works closely with founders: investors, operators, community builders and La Maison.