Motion Revenue and Valuation: A $550M Round and Two Different ARR Numbers

Motion raised $60 million at a $550 million post-money valuation in September 2025. Its revenue depends on who is counting: GetLatka's database records $10 million ARR, while the company itself claims "mid-8-figure" ARR. Both numbers are below, dated and attributed.

Motion (usemotion.com) is the San Francisco company behind an AI calendar, project-management and "AI Employees" agent suite. On September 8, 2025 it announced a $60 million raise — a $38 million Series C led by Scale Venture Partners that the company says was more than five times oversubscribed, plus pre-empted Series B and C2 money from insiders HOF Capital, 468 Capital and SignalFire — at a $550 million post-money valuation. Total raised to date, per the same announcement: $75 million.

How much revenue does Motion make?

Two numbers are in circulation, and they are not the same claim.

GetLatka's Motion company page carries $10 million as its headline 2025 revenue figure, sourced to a September 2025 LinkedIn post. Motion's own funding announcement from the same month says the company "scaled to mid-8-figure ARR with over 10,000 B2B customers" — a claim that would put company-wide ARR somewhere in the $30–60 million range. Our database also carries a $50 million row for September 2025, marked as an estimate, which is presumably an attempt to peg that same claim.

The most defensible reading: the $10 million figure matches the milestone Motion publicized for its AI Employees product line (more on that below), while "mid-8-figures" is the company's characterization of the whole business. The larger number is a company claim made in a fundraising announcement, not an audited figure, and no outside source has confirmed it. We have not interviewed Motion's management, so we can't reconcile the two from the tape.

Here is the dated record as GetLatka has it:

The 2023 and 2024 rows are GetLatka estimates, not company-reported figures.

One sanity check worth doing: GetLatka records roughly 10,000 customers at an average contract value of about $1,000, which multiplies out to $10 million — consistent with our headline number. Motion's mid-8-figure claim with the same customer count would imply an average of $3,000–6,000 per customer instead. One of those inputs is off, and until the company reports a precise figure we can't say which.

Motion's valuation: $550 million after a 5x-oversubscribed round

The valuation, at least, is unambiguous. Motion's September 8, 2025 announcement put the post-money at $550 million. Scale Venture Partners led the $38 million Series C, and Stacey Bishop — who led HubSpot's Series C and sat on its board — joined Motion's board as part of the deal. New investors included Valor Equity Partners, Fellows Fund and Leonis Capital, alongside what the company describes as more than a dozen unicorn-founder angels. Y Combinator has invested in every round.

The funding history, using only rows we can date and source:

Those rows sum to $73.3M against the company's stated $75M total — the roughly $1.7M gap is likely Y Combinator checks and seed-stage money not itemized publicly.

A self-audit note: GetLatka's live funding table for Motion currently shows $133.2 million in total funding. That figure double-counts — it sums the September 2025 $60 million bundle and separate rows for the same Series B and Series C money. Motion's own announcement puts cumulative funding at $75 million, and that is the number to use.

AI Employees: the product behind the 2025 jump

Motion spent its first five years as an AI scheduling and project-management tool for small and mid-sized businesses — the database shows the slow version of that story: $392K in January 2021, still around $2 million (our estimate) as late as October 2024.

What changed in 2025 was AI Employees, a set of agents — project manager, executive assistant, support and sales roles — that execute work inside Motion's existing platform rather than just chatting about it. In its September 2025 announcement, Motion claims the product "surged from $0 to 8-figure ARR" within roughly three months of launch. That is the company's own characterization, published while raising money, and should be read that way. But it is also the claim the round's investors underwrote at $550 million, and it lines up with the $10 million September 2025 milestone in our database.

Fewer people, more revenue

One detail in the record is genuinely unusual: Motion's headcount fell while its revenue rose. GetLatka's database shows the team growing from 4 people in January 2021 to 15 (December 2021), 25 (December 2022), 31 (December 2023) and 67 by October 2024 — then dropping to about 50 by September 2025, the figure Motion itself uses ("50+ team members") in its funding announcement. Whatever the reason for the reduction — the company hasn't said — Motion shipped its fastest-growing product with roughly a quarter fewer people than it had a year earlier.

Who founded Motion?

Motion was founded in 2019 by Harry Qi, who is CEO, with Omid Rooholfada and Ethan Yu. The company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, and YC has participated in every subsequent round. All three founders came out of quantitative-finance and engineering roles, and Motion's origin story — founders automating away their own scheduling overhead — is the version the company itself tells; we have no independent interview tape on it.

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