Motion
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2019CEO / Founder
Harry QiEmployees
51-200Funding
Series AProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.9/10Website
usemotion.com/
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About Motion
Motion is a productivity software company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company builds an AI-driven scheduling platform designed to automatically organize work by prioritizing tasks and blocking calendar time based on deadlines, priorities, and available hours.
Motion's core product combines task management, project management, and calendar scheduling into a single interface. The platform automatically reschedules tasks when priorities shift or meetings run over, and includes features for team coordination such as shared project timelines and meeting scheduling tools. It targets knowledge workers, freelancers, and small-to-medium-sized teams seeking to reduce manual planning overhead.
Motion has reported reaching over 100,000 paying subscribers. The company has raised outside funding, though specific round sizes and total capital raised have not been publicly disclosed. It operates with a subscription-based revenue model and has grown primarily through digital marketing and word-of-mouth channels.
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Financials
Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.
Products by Motion
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Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.
Competitive Landscape
Who Motion competes with, and how they differ.
The closest direct rival — an AI calendar app that auto-schedules tasks, habits, meetings, and focus time on top of Google Calendar. Acquired by Dropbox for $40.2M in August 2024 and now positioned as part of the Dropbox Dash ecosystem rather than an independent standalone product like Motion.
A much broader, highly configurable project-management suite (docs, chat, whiteboards, tasks) with AI features layered on top; competes for the same team task-management budget, but automatic day-planning is an add-on for ClickUp, not the core mechanic it is for Motion.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Targets the same knowledge-worker audience seeking one daily planning view across tools, but is deliberately manual — it aggregates tasks into a calendar for the user to place by hand rather than auto-scheduling them the way Motion does.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedA command-bar-driven task aggregator that pulls to-dos from many apps into a calendar for manual placement; priced close to Motion but requires the user to do the scheduling work Motion's engine automates.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Motion's history, with sources.
- Funding
Series C — $38M led by Scale Venture Partners at $550M post-money valuation
Motion raised a 5x-oversubscribed $38M Series C led by Stacey Bishop of Scale Venture Partners, plus a pre-empted Series C2, at a $550M post-money valuation; total raised to date reported as $75M.
techcrunch.com - Launch
Launched "AI Employees" — autonomous agents built into the work-management platform
Motion launched AI Employees (executive assistant, sales, support, and marketing agents) that execute work inside the platform rather than just chat about it, positioning Motion as a work-management platform for both human and AI employees.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series B — $38.0M equity offering (SEC Form D)
SEC Form D notice of exempt securities offering, total offering amount $38,000,028 ($36,490,025 sold), first sale dated May 31, 2024. Corroborated by Tracxn recording HOF Capital's first investment in Motion on this date as part of its Series B round.
sec.gov - Funding
Series A — $13M led by SignalFire
Motion raised a $13M Series A led by SignalFire, with participation from 468 Capital and angel investors including Sam Altman, after reaching seven-figure ARR in the prior year.
techcrunch.com - Milestone
Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch
Motion's founders went through YC's Winter 2020 batch, pivoting from an initial time-management tool into the task-and-calendar auto-scheduling product that became Motion.
ycombinator.com - Founded
Motion founded by Harry Qi, Omid Rooholfada, and Ethan Yu
Founded in 2019 as Nexusbird, Inc. Qi and Rooholfada were high-school friends, Qi and Yu were college friends at Dartmouth; the team later built Motion's AI task-scheduling engine drawing on Qi and Yu's prior quant-trading backgrounds.
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