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Motive

Transportation · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2013

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

Valuation $2.5–5B
Revenue $100–500M
Headcount 5–10k
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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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News Base10 Partners closes $850M across two funds, hits $2.6B in assets Jun 11, 2026

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

Ownership

Who owns Motive

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

18% Founders
  • Index Ventures 14.5%

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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 score87
Phi ConsultingEst. 2019
AZAli ZUnited States
Signal score73
TangoEst. 2020
Ken BabcockUnited States
Signal score68
HaulEst. 2019
Timothy J. HenryUnited States
Signal score65
VartanaEst. 2020
Ahmed SharifUnited States
Signal score59
EnsisEst. 2023
Jon SockellUnited States
Signal score52

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Global footprint

Where Motive has talent and traffic

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
1.6M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States66.1%
🇨🇦 Canada14.4%
🇵🇰 Pakistan4.1%
🇲🇽 Mexico4%
🇲🇩 Moldova1.8%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Motive's talent

Dealroom maps Motive's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

15 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
19 AI specialistsincl. 8 core researchers
6,321 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$1M patent portfolio · 10 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$1M
0.05% of valuation · 13.6× smaller than top peer NetraDyne ($18M)
10 active patent families
Where Motive innovates Computer graphics (images)Data miningDriver/operatorInformation processingLearning models

Where Motive concentrates vs peers

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

Compare against

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market 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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