Motives
YC S25London, GB · 11 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
Motives conducts AI-moderated video interviews with real people to gather consumer insights for insights teams. The platform automates recruitment and analysis of qualitative research data.
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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S25)
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Sean ConleyinCo-Founder & CEOSean Conley worked as a researcher at GiveWell before roles launching AI tools at Google, Dataiku, and TrueLayer. He now leads Motives, a consumer insights platform.
Investors · 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeedOct 2025Source ↗
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Competitors · 4
by search overlap
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Momentum4 shared keywordsMomentum is an AI-native revenue orchestration platform that captures customer interactions and turns them into structured CRM data, automatically updating fields and running GTM workflows. It offers AI agents for deal execution, customer retention, executive/CRO insights, and coaching, and integrates with Slack (and soon Microsoft Teams) for sales, customer success, and leadership teams.
Formotiv3 shared keywordsForMotiv provides real-time behavioral intelligence to insurance carriers, capturing in-session digital behavior data to improve conversion decisions and prevent fraud during the underwriting process. The platform uses proprietary behavioral, device, and network signals to score applicant intent and risk across direct and agent channels.
ChatGPT3 shared keywordsChatGPT is an AI assistant that generates text responses, creates images, and processes uploaded files based on user prompts and saved chat history.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Motives do?
- Motives conducts AI-moderated video interviews with real people to gather consumer insights for insights teams. The platform automates recruitment and analysis of qualitative research data.
- Who founded Motives?
- Motives was founded by Sean Conley, Sam Stoll.
- Who are Motives's investors?
- Motives's investors include Failup Ventures, Lobster Capital, Oxonian Ventures, Y Combinator.
- Where is Motives headquartered?
- Motives is headquartered in London, GB.