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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nShoaib Makani is co-founder and CEO of Motive, which builds connected-vehicle and fleet management technology. He previously led investments at Khosla Ventures, led international growth at AdMob, and began his career at Google in product management and marketing. He has a BSc in government and economics from the London School of Economics.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smakani\n\n## What Shoaib builds\n\n- [Motive Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/motive-agents.md), graded F, 24.5/100, in Workflow automation. Motive Agents are trigger-and-action automations inside Motive's fleet management platform. Fleet admins set conditions on safety, maintenance and idling data, and Agents send alerts, assign training, open work orders or have Motive's Atlas assistant call drivers. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Hemant Banavar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/hemant-banavar/), Chief Product Officer; Agents launch spokesperson\n- [Obaid Khan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/obaid-khan/), Co-founder, board member and former COO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kleiner-perkins/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Shoaib Makani?\n\nShoaib Makani is co-founder and CEO of Motive, which builds connected-vehicle and fleet management technology. He previously led investments at Khosla Ventures, led international growth at AdMob, and began his career at Google in product management and marketing. He has a BSc in government and economics from the London School of Economics.\n\n### What does Motive Technologies, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Motive Agents from Motive Technologies, Inc.. Motive Agents are trigger-and-action automations inside Motive's fleet management platform. Fleet admins set conditions on safety, maintenance and idling data, and Agents send alerts, assign training, open work orders or have Motive's Atlas assistant call drivers.\n\n### Who has invested in Motive Technologies, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Kleiner Perkins.\n\n### How are Shoaib's tools graded?\n\nMotive Agents is graded F, 24.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://gomotive.com/en-gb/company/leadership/\n- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261019012816/en/Motive-Launches-Agents-AI-that-Acts-Before-Problems-Start\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hbanavar\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/smakani\n- https://gomotive.com/\n- https://gomotive.com/products/platform/\n- https://gomotive.com/company/contact-us/\n- https://gomotive.com/en-gb/company/contact-us/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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