Motion
“Can an AI-native productivity platform grow from intelligent scheduling into a full workplace automation OS?”
Founded2019
HQSan Francisco, California, United States
FoundersHarry Qi, Omid Rooholfada, Ethan Yu, Chander Ramesh
Total raised$53M+
Latest roundSeries B (inferred), September 2025
IndustryVertical SaaS / Productivity & Task Management
The story
Founded in 2019 by ex-quant-fund analysts who applied AI to personal scheduling and task prioritization. After Y Combinator in 2020, the company steadily grew a subscription-based productivity platform for professionals. By 2025, Motion raised $38M to expand toward an AI agents and automation vision, positioning itself as a broader workplace productivity OS rather than a pure calendar/task tool.
Product timeline
2019
Founded by Harry Qi, Omid Rooholfada, and Ethan Yu as an AI calendaring and task management app.· pivot
2020
Accepted into Y Combinator Winter 2020 batch; founders quit hedge fund jobs to pursue the startup full-time.· pivot
2025
Raised $38M in fresh funding to build toward an 'AI agents' productivity platform vision, described as the Microsoft Office of AI agents.· banking
The stack
2 layers disclosed in Motion’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Unified APIs
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
1 more provider across 1 layer, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.