Motion's $60M raise at $550M Valuation
Motion has raised a total of $60M across Series B, Series C, and Series C2, bringing our total raised to $75M and a latest valuation of $550M. The majority of the funding comes from the $38M series C, which was more than 5 times oversubscribed, led by Scale Venture Partners, with series B and C2 pre-empted by insiders HOF Capital, 468 Capital, and SignalFire. Y Combinator continues to double-down in each round, with new investors including Valor Equity Partners, Fellows Fund, Leonis Capital, and over a dozen unicorn founders. The funding will be used to expand the team, primarily in engineering and product, to further develop our agentic work suite with new applications and agents. As part of the Series C, we welcome Stacey Bishop of Scale Venture Partners to our board; she brings extensive experience in SMB and mid-market, having led HubSpot’s Series C and sat on its board, as well as leading Lever’s Series B, Demandbase's series E, and Bill.com's Series E.
"Motion reminds me of HubSpot in its early days—laser-focused on building the best product for SMBs before moving upmarket. When I spoke with Motion customers during diligence, it was clear Motion's agentic work suite solves a very real problem: these businesses want to use AI to run better, but don’t know where to start. Motion makes that leap possible." - Stacey Bishop of Scale Venture Partners
Everyday American businesses are being left behind
Today, big tech and Silicon Valley startups are harnessing AI to build highly efficient businesses. Fortune 500 companies, though less fluent in the technology, are investing heavily to have startups develop custom AI Agents for them with dozens of forward deployed engineers. But the real backbone of the American economy—small and mid-sized businesses—are being left behind. Unlike Fortune 500s, these businesses can’t afford or manage a separate AI Agent solution for each department. The patchwork of point solutions demands costly integrations and complex setups. Many SMBs are still only familiar with AI through ChatGPT and don’t grasp how Agents could transform their operations.
An entire Work Suite built from the ground-up in an Agent-native way
Motion's customer base powers the American economy - from Minnesota's technical consulting firm Media Junction to Texas's marketing agency Efficient, Alabama’s IT services provider Ally, and Tennessee's design agency Worship Times. These businesses don’t need another point solution - they need a ready-to-use, out-of-the-box solution to run everything, including the agents, all in one place, seamlessly. This is why Motion is building the first end-to-end agentic work suite - from sales and marketing to project management and client engagement - with agents natively embedded. We've already built a significant part of this suite around agentic work management - including team project management, knowledge management, documents, sheets, calendar, meeting scheduling, business intelligence, and more - over the past 3 years, and we will be releasing many new applications over the coming months.
What makes this suite different is that every application is designed to integrate seamlessly with the others, and every application is built with Agents at the core. Whether it’s an AI SDR, AI Project Manager, or AI Marketer, these Agents aren’t bolt-ons—they’re natively embedded inside the platform. In fact, the next generation of applications we’re building can’t function without them.
The best Agents are only possible when they are native with Platform and Data
A recent popular MIT paper claims that 95% of AI pilots fail "due to brittle workflows, lack of contextual learning, and misalignment with day-to-day operations."
To deliver a truly magical out-of-the-box solution, agents must have native, full read and write access to both the business’s data and platforms. Most third-party integrations fall short, offering limited data access and relying on complex setups that businesses lack the expertise or resources to manage. Moreover, the best agents are seamlessly embedded within the user experience - like a one-click button inside a client engagement app that instantly pulls up all relevant client data, meeting notes, and ongoing projects - something third-party tools simply cannot replicate. That’s why Motion is building both the platform and the Agent layer from the ground up, creating what Microsoft would be if it were founded today.
Why Motion is winning
To us, winning means helping our customers - millions of everyday businesses - win; we want to help them attract more clients, make more money, and build better and bigger businesses. Customers love the Motion suite because it frees them to focus on what matters. CEOs get out of the weeds of email and project tracking - and dedicate more time on strategy. Sales reps spend less time updating records and more time closing deals.
As a result, we've scaled to mid-8-figure ARR with over 10,000 B2B customers running their entire businesses on Motion’s agentic work platform. And in just three months since launching AI Employees - agents that autonomously complete work inside Motion - this line item alone has surged from $0 to 8-figure ARR.
“Motion’s AI Project Manager cut our project delivery time by 30%. The Executive Assistant agent gives me back hours every week to win new clients. It’s the first platform where the AI feels truly built-in, not bolted - and Motion keeps shipping at a pace I’ve never seen before. I can't wait to bring my entire business operations onto Motion with their upcoming new offerings.” — Joel, CEO of Ally, an IT Services Company
Join our Team
Motion is a talented and hardworking team of 50+ united by a single goal: to empower everyday American businesses to succeed and thrive. Here's just a few of recent new members:
- Ashutosh Desai, founder of Make School and former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator, has joined us full-time to expand our agentic-native suite with new applications.
- Luis Carrasco, former early team member and Director of Product of Microsoft Teams, now leads Motion's product and design organization.
- Antonio Garcia, former VP of Sales at Salesforce, has taken the helm as Head of Sales.
"They are one of the best YC companies and amongst the most formidable founders I've ever met." - Michael Seibel, former CEO of Y Combinator
