Palo Alto, CA-based Motif Investing, a stealth-mode startup building a consumer-oriented online investing platform, said today that it has raised $6 million in Series A financing in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners and Foundation Capital. Founded by a former Microsoft executive and a former hedge fund analyst, the company has revealed few details about its technology, but has begun accepting applications to its beta testing program in preparation for a fall 2011 launch.

Wade Roush is a freelance science and technology journalist and the producer and host of the podcast Soonish. Follow @soonishpodcast

• Share on Facebook
• Share on Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Email
• Reprints

Trending on Xconomy

• Biogen’s Ehlers Leaving for Apple Tree, Steps Into Limelight as CEO
• Beam Therapeutics Preps IPO and Sheds Light on Its Gene-Editing Drugs
• ESMO 2019: PARP and Prostate, SeaGen’s Win, KRAS Update & More