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Motive

Transportation · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2013 Unicorn

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Valuation
$2.5–5B
Latest valuation · 2026
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Revenue
$100–500M
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
5–10k
Current team size
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Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Builds technology to improve the safety, productivity and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy

Investors

14 investors on Motive's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 6 investors entered at this stage
Greenoaks Capital Partners
Ben Lewis
GV
Zubair Jandali
Lee Linden
Charles Yim
Series A 1 investor entered at this stage
Index Ventures
Series B+ 7 investors entered at this stage
BlackRock
Insight Partners
Kleiner Perkins
IVP
ITOCHU
Scale Venture Partners
G2 Venture Partners

Motive mafia

Startups founded by Motive alumni

Former Motive employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

ObvioEst. 2023
Ali RehanUnited States
Signal score93
Axle HealthEst. 2020
ASAdam StansellUnited States
Signal score89
Phi ConsultingEst. 2019
AZAli ZUnited States
Signal score74
HaulEst. 2019
Timothy J. HenryUnited States
Signal score68
TangoEst. 2020
Ken BabcockUnited States
Signal score67
VartanaEst. 2020
Ahmed SharifUnited States
Signal score58
EnsisEst. 2023
Jon SockellUnited States
Signal score52

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Global footprint

Where Motive has talent and traffic

AI talent share
0.3% of workforce is AI talent
(19 of 6,135 staff)
Core AI80.13%
Other AI110.18%
Non-AI workforce6,11699.69%
Workforce by country
38 countries with
team presence
🇵🇰 Pakistan60.2%
🇺🇸 United States25.9%
🇮🇳 India5.5%
🇨🇦 Canada2.2%
🇲🇽 Mexico1.3%
Top 5 of 38 shown
Web traffic by country
1.8M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States67.4%
🇨🇦 Canada14.4%
🇲🇽 Mexico6.1%
🇵🇰 Pakistan3.7%
🇮🇳 India2.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$1M patent portfolio · 10 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$1M
0.05% of valuation · 356.2× smaller than top peer Mobileye ($471M)
10 active patent families
Where Motive innovates Embedded systemDriver/operatorData miningPower management systemComputer network

Where Motive concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Motive and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Motive

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Motive on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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