Motorica
AI Agents · Animation
1hiring now · open roles
$5.4Mlatest round · Seed · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
1backers · Luminar Ventures
10+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Motorica is a Generative AI that makes production-quality animation possible in seconds instead of weeks. Founded in 2020 as a startup spun out of Generative AI research at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Motorica has developed MoGen, the SOTA model for synthesized motion, now referenced by leading organizations such as Meta and Berkeley in their motion research.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$5.4M
1 round on record
Latest round
$5.4M
Seed · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
1
Luminar Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
16 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
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
Jun 24, 2025
Raised a round Seed $5.4M
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 11%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Jun 2025 | $5.4M | — | desertsun.com |
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
23/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
58 days
faster than 23% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~9 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
100% ▲
Financials
Total raised
$5.4M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2025 | $5.4M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Motorica over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
28
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
Go
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
Unity
Angular
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Datadog
GCP
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Grafana
Kubernetes
Developer tools
Blender
Helm
Maya
OpenTofu
Prometheus
Terraform
Bazel
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
Diffusion Models
CI/CD
DNS
IAM
Platform Engineering
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FinOps
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Same company
Same group
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News
Motorica Raises $5.8M For Its Game Animation AI Platform
"Traditionally, animators spend 70% of their time on technical grunt work and only 30% on actual creative performance," says co-founder Willem Demmers. "Motorica flips that."
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Report
Motorica raises €5m to accelerate AI-powered character animation and expand globally
Generative AI company for character animation Motorica has raised €5 million ($5.8m) in a seed round to support its expansion and accelerate its product roadmap.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Stockholm
Stockholm
Sweden
HQ
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Early Careers