Motion YC Application
Motion went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.
- YC batch
- Winter 2020
- Industry
- B2BProductivity
- Team size
- 65
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2020
Founders
Harry QiFounder
Omid RooholfadaFounder
Ethan YuFounder
What Motion does
Motion lets you build and manage AI Employees directly within our work management platform, an AI-native productivity suite offering project management, task management, calendar, docs, wiki, notes, scheduling, contextual search, reports, and more.
Motion's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Motion, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Motion
Work management platform for Human and AI Employees
Motion is a work management platform designed to manage both human employees and AI employees natively. It offers modules like project management, task tracking, calendars, docs, wikis, notes, scheduling, contextual search, and reports all within one AI-driven productivity suite. Users build and manage AI employees directly alongside their human teams, improving efficiency by automating task execution and collaboration.
We live in San Francisco, CA and the company is based in San Francisco with a large remote team.
San Francisco is a central hub for technology talent and innovation, which helps us recruit engineers and build connections. We maintain a remote team to access talent outside the area and keep flexibility.
21 more answers in the full application
Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Motion YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Motion's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Motion would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Motion in?
Motion was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 batch.
Who founded Motion?
Motion was founded by Harry Qi, Omid Rooholfada, Ethan Yu.
What does Motion do?
The only work management platform for both Human and AI Employees
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Motion's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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