Motives
Market Research
Overview
Motives is an AI-powered qualitative research platform that transforms interviews into actionable insights. Streamline your research process, enhance decision-making, and deliver compelling results for insights, marketing, and creative teams.
Funding and backers
Backers
4
Y Combinator, Connect Ventures
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Shared investors
Failup VenturesVia a fund
Episode 1 VenturesVia a fund
Connect VenturesVia a fund
Y CombinatorVia a fund
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News
What Hidden Motives Imply
My book with the excellent co-author, Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, was published almost nine years ago, and has sold 60K copies so far.
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Claude can miss the motives of politicians
Frontier AI agents catalog facts accurately but fail to ask 'why now?' when forecasting political and institutional actions. Three case studies from the BTF-2 benchmark show how missing an actor's structural incentive, like a host-country deadline, an ins
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Like Putin, Trump is a megalomaniac. In Europe, we can shield ourselves, not look for rational motives Robert Habeck
I had to deal with the energy shock in Germany after Putin invaded Ukraine. The solution now is the same: buy ourselves out of the fossil fuels trap, says Robert Habeck, former vice-Chancellor of Germany
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Russian border guards crossed into Estonia with unclear motives, minister says
Three Russian border guards crossed the Estonian-Russian border in eastern Estonia on Wednesday morning without permission, the minister of the interior said. The reason is unknown but there is no threat to Estonia's security, he added.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
London
United Kingdom
HQ