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Motion Raises $60M to Build the AI-Native Work Suite for SMBs

September 9, 2025

Motion’s latest funding milestone is a striking reflection of how fast the AI-driven work management market is evolving. With $60M raised across Series B, C, and C2, the company now sits on a total of $75M in funding and a $550M valuation, positioning itself as one of the more serious contenders in the “agentic work suite” space. The $38M Series C, led by Scale Venture Partners and oversubscribed fivefold, signals that investor appetite is not only robust but also heavily concentrated around companies that combine product adoption velocity with a clear narrative around AI’s role in transforming small and mid-sized business operations. The presence of repeat backers like HOF Capital, 468 Capital, SignalFire, and Y Combinator underscores confidence in the founders, while the addition of Valor Equity Partners, Fellows Fund, Leonis Capital, and multiple unicorn operators suggests the company has captured the imagination of both financial and strategic investors.

The comparison to HubSpot in its early days, offered by Scale’s Stacey Bishop, is more than a flattering parallel—it points to Motion’s deliberate strategy of starting with SMBs before moving upmarket. HubSpot’s trajectory from niche inbound marketing to a full-stack enterprise solution provides a template that Motion appears keen to replicate, but with a distinctly AI-native core. Unlike many incumbents bolting generative AI features onto existing products, Motion has constructed its suite around autonomous agents from the ground up. Its AI Employees and Project Manager, which in just three months scaled from $0 to 8-figure ARR, reveal a product-market fit that is unusually sharp for a company still in its early growth stage. The fact that over 10,000 SMBs already run their businesses on Motion underscores how the company has hit a nerve among organizations that have historically lacked access to custom AI tooling reserved for Fortune 500 firms.

The customer anecdotes lend credibility to the story. Cutting project delivery time by 30% or reclaiming executive hours with an AI assistant translates directly to revenue expansion and cost efficiency, the two levers SMBs care about most. The appeal lies not just in automation but in Motion’s promise of integrated intelligence across documents, projects, scheduling, and communications—an end-to-end environment that lowers the friction of adoption. In this sense, Motion positions itself less as “another tool” and more as an operational backbone for smaller businesses. CEO Harry Qi’s framing of SMBs as the “left-behind” segment in the AI revolution is a compelling mission statement, and one that investors likely see as both socially resonant and commercially massive, given SMBs’ outsized contribution to GDP.

If Motion succeeds in continuing to scale ARR at a triple-digit pace while deepening its agentic suite, its valuation multiple could rise rapidly, especially as Wall Street begins to assign premium multiples to AI-native platforms with strong lock-in dynamics. The Series C board addition of Stacey Bishop, who has a track record of helping category-defining SaaS players cross the chasm, strengthens its chances of pulling off the SMB-to-enterprise transition. The critical question will be execution: can Motion keep shipping at the rapid pace customers note, while ensuring that agent reliability scales with adoption? If it does, the company could evolve from a $550M valuation startup to a multibillion-dollar platform in a matter of years, making its trajectory one to watch closely in the AI enterprise SaaS landscape.

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