Isabel Holding

Isabel Holding joined Motive Partners in 2023 and is an Associate on the Motive Ventures investment team based out of the Berlin office. At Motive, Isabel is responsible for sourcing, analyzing and executing investments, as it relates to technology companies that enable the financial economy.

Prior to joining Motive, Isabel was an Associate at embedded/capital, a Berlin based early-stage financial technology investment firm, which was acquired by Motive Partners in February 2023, to form the early-stage arm of the Motive Partners platform.

Isabel started her career at Evercore, where she spent over 5 years working in the European Technology M&A team based in London. While at Evercore, she worked on a variety of transactions including finleap’s partial sale of PAIR Finance to Pollen Street Capital, Nordic Capital’s sale of Vizrt Group, notonthehighstreet’s sale to Great Hill Partners, HgCapital’s sale of Intelliflo to Invesco, Axel Springer’s sale of aufeminin to Group TF1, Bain Capital on its acquisition of NGA HR.

Isabel holds a BSc in Chemistry from Imperial College in London.