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Ethan Yu

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Founder at Motion

San Francisco Bay Area

Writes $200K – $300K checks · typically $250K

FoundedMotion · YC

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About

Ethan Yu is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Motion. He has background experience in engineering, growth, and quantitative finance.

Founder at MotionYC W20

Intro paths

YC

Ethan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2020) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Motion's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Ethan can intro founders to Motion's investors below.

Motion's investors · 22

468 CapitalBerlin · since 2025Abstract VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $750K checks · since 2015Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2015APOLLO PROJECTSSan Francisco · since 2015Crystal Towers CapitalMountain View · since 2015FellowsCampbell · since 2015FrialeNashville · $100K – $600K checks · since 2015HeadlineSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks · since 2015HOF CapitalNew York · $500K – $10M checks · since 2025Inovia CapitalMontreal · $250K – $8M checks · since 2015Leonis CapitalSan Francisco · since 2025NewView CapitalBurlingame · since 2015Scale Venture PartnersFoster City · $5M – $50M checks · since 2025SignalFireSan Francisco · $250K – $15M checks · since 2025Sugar CapitalSonoma · $1M – $2M checks · since 2015SuperAngel.FundNew York · $25K – $250K checks · since 2015Threshold VenturesPalo Alto · $500K – $20M checks · since 2015Tuesday CapitalSan Francisco · since 2015UncommonToronto · since 2015Valor Equity PartnersChicago · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2020Yukon Venture AngelsWhitehorse · since 2015

Co-founders at Motion

HQHarry Qi
Harry QiFounder
OROmid Rooholfada
Omid RooholfadaFounder
DN
David NelsonExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
AS
Alex SloanFounder
AS
Alexander SloanFounder
DB
David BerglasFounder
JD
Jaime DonnellyFounder
RK
Reza KhadjaviFounder

Investments

Per curated public sources.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Ethan Yu?
Ethan Yu is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Motion. He has background experience in engineering, growth, and quantitative finance.
Where does Ethan Yu work?
Ethan Yu is Founder of Motion.
What check size does Ethan Yu write?
Ethan Yu typically writes checks of $200K – $300K.
What companies did Ethan Yu found?
Ethan Yu founded Motion.
What companies has Ethan Yu invested in?
Investments tracked here include attimet, Nowadays, OpenSight, unSurvey.

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