Motion Raises $60 Million for AI Agents Designed for Small Businesses

Motion raised $60 million in recent funding rounds to continue developing its agentic work suite that provides artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agents designed for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

The company raised the new funding across Series B, Series C and Series C2 rounds, bringing its total raised to $75 million and its valuation to $550 million, it said in a Monday (Sept. 8) press release.

Motion’s agentic work platform includes the company’s AI Employees, which are agents that autonomously complete work inside the platform, according to the release.

The company’s AI applications and agents help with a growing number of tasks, including ones in team project management, knowledge management, documents, sheets, calendar, meeting scheduling and business intelligence, the release said.

Recent additions to Motion’s platform include an Inbox that that helps users see, manage and act on updates from their teammates; an AI Docs assistant that helps users create first drafts, revise content and get answers from documents; and an AI Agenda that generates daily lists that show today’s tasks, tomorrow’s priorities and overdue items, according to the company’s blog posts.

Motion’s platform is currently used by more than 10,000 SMBs, per the press release.

“Our customers are SMBs who make up half of America’s GDP — everyday American businesses like IT services, marketing agencies and construction companies,” Motion CEO and Co-founder Harry Qi said in the release. “They are being left behind in this AI world, and we are going to help them win.”

Stacey Bishop, partner at Scale Venture Partners, which led the Series C round, said in the release: “When I spoke with Motion customers during diligence, it was clear Motion’s agentic work suite solves a very real problem: these businesses want to use AI to run better, but don’t know where to start. Motion makes that leap possible.”

The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Innovators and Cost Cutters: Growth Strategies for SMBs” found that one-third of SMBs use AI and that nearly all who use the technology find it effective.

Verizon Business’ 2025 State of Small Business Survey found that 38% of SMBs are integrating AI into their operations. Twenty-eight percent are deploying AI for marketing and social media, 24% use it for written communications, and nearly a quarter use it to power digital personal assistants that can help with customer service.

It was reported in June that AI is one of the factors driving SMBs to reduce their number of middle managers, as the technology performs tasks previously done by middle managers, like generating slide decks and project plans and collecting feedback.