Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
Nooks is a San Francisco-based AI-native sales engagement company. It began as a virtual collaboration/office product and evolved into an agent workspace where sales representatives and AI agents collaborate on prospecting, account research, sequencing, dialing, coaching, and follow-up. The company says its platform is used by 1,000+ companies and has a 200+ person team.
Primary product
Nooks Agent Workspace / AI Sales Assistant Platform (ASAP), comprising AI Sequencing, AI Dialer, Signals & Intelligence, AI Coaching, and AI Assistant.
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
200–300; Nooks reported 200+ in its careers material and 250+ in a July 2026 company update; a February 2026 report said approximately 200.
Industry
Software Development / Artificial Intelligence
Sub-industry
44 jobs at Nooks
AI sales engagement, sales automation, revenue technology, prospecting and sales productivity software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series B; privately held
Total raised
$70M
Latest round
Series B · Oct 2024
Latest amount
$43M
Jun 2025 · Zigg Capital (lead) — other investors: Upper90, SAIC Ventures, Lockheed Martin Ventures [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nooks-closes-25m-series-a-funding-round-with-unmatched-team-of-industry-leaders-302476418.html)
Oct 2024 · Kleiner Perkins
Apr 2024 · Lachy Groom
Jul 2021 · Tola Capital
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and CPO / Founder & Sales Leader
Co-Founder and CTO
Hannah Willson
Chief Revenue Officer
Chinmay Barve
Vice President of Engineering
Charlie Wiebe
Vice President of Revenue Operations
Sandy White
Vice President of Customer Success
Chloë McNab
Vice President of Legal
Investors
Nooks describes its culture as high-agency, low-ego, intensely collaborative, and customer-obsessed. Published values include earning customer love, extreme ownership, doing more with less, asking why, and ruthless prioritization. The company emphasizes shipping quickly for real customers and human-AI augmentation rather than replacing sales representatives.
Visa sponsorship
Yes
Compensation
Public postings provide role-specific signals rather than a company-wide compensation band; an AI Deployment Strategist listing showed $140,000–$240,000. Dan Lee publicly said Nooks supports employees with relocations, visas, and immigration counsel.
Benefits
Pricing
Custom quote / demo-led enterprise SaaS pricing. Nooks sells packages around dialing, sequencing, signals/intelligence, coaching, and data; customers generally retain primary data providers such as ZoomInfo, Cognism, or LeadIQ and connect them through integrations.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Under $1M in a third-party LinkedIn data estimate; this conflicts with Nooks-reported rapid ARR growth and should be treated as low-confidence rather than audited revenue.
Estimated monthly visits
73.4K
Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026
Dan Lee / LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Dan Lee reported 250+ employees, 154% of the Q2 ARR goal, approximately 400 new customers, 5x quarter-over-quarter AI Sequencing ARR, and new customers including Cursor, Brex, ServiceTitan, Carta, HighRadius, and Darktrace.
Dan Lee / LinkedIn · Jun 2026
CEO Dan Lee announced the downtown Seattle office as Nooks' first expansion outside its San Francisco headquarters, focused initially on engineering and product hiring.
Nooks · May 2026
Nooks introduced a conversational assistant that researches accounts, prioritizes prospects, builds sequences, analyzes performance, and runs scheduled workflows using CRM, call, email, web, and intent context.
Nooks · Feb 2026
Nooks launched AI Sequencing, extending its dialer into a unified, multichannel outbound workspace with account research, buying signals, personalized email, LinkedIn/SMS workflows, and CRM-native execution.
GeekWire · Feb 2026
Coverage of Nooks' engineering expansion into Seattle, headcount growth, and strong post-Series B revenue growth and customer base; signals scaling of applied-AI engineering efforts [GeekWire](https://www.geekwire.com/2026/san-francisco-ai-startup-nooks-makes-engineering-push-in-seattle).