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Y Combinator-backed Motion raises fresh $38M to build the Microsoft Office of AI agents
In his early 20s, Harry Qi left a million-year hedge fund job to join Y Combinator. His SMB AI agent startup is now growing fast.
So in 2019, he and his high school buddy, Omid Rooholfada, along with Ethan Yu (Qi’s friend from college — also working at a hedge fund) built an AI calendaring and task management app and applied to Y Combinator. Over the next six years, they steadily grew Motion’s mostly professional consumer customer base until, in May, they launched an integrated AI agent bundle for small and mid-sized businesses. “You basically have to build all the applications.” This is in contrast to buying point AI products — a sales rep, a customer service bot, a blog-writing one — that don’t work together.
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