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Nooks

nooks.ai

Nooks provides an AI-powered outbound sales workspace combining prospecting, sequencing, dialing, signals, and coaching for revenue teams.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees51-200
Funding$75M
Valuation$285m
14 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 20h ago
Sales TechAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries B$50M-$200M

About

Nooks builds an AI-powered outbound sales workspace for B2B sales organizations, combining prospecting, sequencing, calling, coaching, and buying signals. Its differentiation is pairing human sales judgment with AI execution in a unified, multi-channel system that reduces research and administrative work.

Market

Nooks competes in AI-native sales engagement and outbound-sales automation, combining prospecting, sequencing, dialing, signal intelligence, and coaching in one workspace. It differentiates from legacy, task-oriented sequencing platforms and standalone dialers by using AI agents to automate research and execution, dynamically prioritize accounts from buyer signals, and unify the outbound workflow rather than requiring a disconnected multi-tool stack.

Target Customers

Nooks targets sophisticated startups and enterprises with outbound sales organizations that want to increase pipeline without scaling headcount. Its primary users and buyers are GTM and sales teams—including SDRs, account executives, and sales leaders—at companies seeking to automate prospecting and other sales busywork.

At a Glance

Problem

Outbound sales teams lose time and effectiveness to repetitive research, manual sequence upkeep, disconnected tools, and the “toggle tax” of switching between dialing, sequencing, CRM, enrichment, and coaching systems. The economic pain is slower prospecting, lower-quality personalization, and the need to add headcount to generate more pipeline. Nooks’ central use case is helping reps identify the best prospects and execute relevant, multi-channel outreach without scaling operational overhead.

The company’s reported outcomes illustrate the value: teams switching from legacy sequencing tools have more than doubled email-sourced pipeline and cut research time by 90%, while customer stories cite material increases in meetings, conversations, and opportunities. These claims position Nooks as a productivity and pipeline-generation system for high-velocity outbound organizations.

Product / Service

Nooks is an agent workspace for intelligent outbound that combines human judgment with AI execution. Its platform brings together an AI dialer, AI sequencing, prospecting assistance, signals and research, multi-channel engagement, coaching, and a virtual salesfloor. It unifies CRM, contact, web-intent, transcript, and enrichment data so AI can interpret signals, prioritize accounts, recommend what to say or send, and keep workflows aligned across channels.

The product is designed to build, test, and launch outbound playbooks while keeping reps in the loop. AI can construct targeted lists from firmographics, first-party data, and live buying signals, then update sequences as account data, activity, or intent changes. The intended benefit is more relevant outreach, higher reply and meeting rates, less manual upkeep, and more pipeline without a proportional increase in sales headcount.

Market

Nooks competes in sales engagement and AI-powered selling, particularly the intelligent-outbound category spanning sales sequencing, parallel dialing, prospecting intelligence, conversation intelligence, and sales coaching. The evidence identifies legacy sequencing tools as an incumbent alternative, but it does not name specific competitors. Nooks differentiates its positioning by consolidating dialing, sequencing, coaching, data, and AI agents into one outbound command center rather than requiring teams to operate several separate tools.

The company is clearly commercial rather than pre-revenue based on its reported customer base and customer results, although revenue figures are not provided. Nooks’ materials say more than 1,200 customers rely on it, while its website describes thousands of enterprises and startups using the platform; named users and customer stories include HubSpot, Deel, ZoomInfo, Rippling, Greenhouse, Drata, Observe, and Coder. It also reports a 4.8 G2 rating from more than 1,500 reviews, alongside customer-reported gains such as a 70% increase in pipeline at Greenhouse, 67% more meetings at HubSpot, and a 25% increase in meetings booked at Drata.

Founders & Leadership

Daniel LeeFounder
Co-Founder and CEO
Nikhil CheerlaFounder
Co-Founder and CTO
Rohan SuriFounder
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Hannah WillsonChief Revenue Officer
Jonathon BlackburnVP of Sales
Paulette GreenVP of Success
Brian DeRosaVP, Global Business Development and Inside Sales

Funding History

2021-07
Seed$5M

Tola Capital

2024-04
Series A$22M

Lachy Groom

2024-10
Series B$43M

Kleiner Perkins

Recent News

2026-06-14partnership
ZoomInfo Announces Two-Way Integration with Nooks AI

ZoomInfo announced a two-way integration with Nooks AI through GTM.AI. ZoomInfo data flows into the Nooks dialer through a native connector, while Nooks engagement data can enrich ZoomInfo GTM Studio Audiences through a Custom Data Connector.

2026-05-20product
Introducing Nooks AI Assistant: Frontier AI for GTM Teams

Nooks launched its AI Assistant for GTM teams. The assistant supports workflows such as account research, prospect identification, task creation, sequence enrollment, and personalized email drafting and sending.

2026-04-28product
Product Update: Coaching Lab, SMS Steps, LinkedIn Steps and More

Nooks announced a product update adding Coaching Lab, SMS steps, LinkedIn steps, and other platform improvements for multi-channel sales workflows.

2026-03-31product
Nooks: The Best Salesloft Alternative in 2026

Nooks positioned its platform as an AI-native alternative to Salesloft, unifying prospecting, sequencing, dialing, and coaching in one workspace with AI agents operating across workflows.

2026-02-24
San Francisco AI Startup Nooks Makes Engineering Push in Seattle

GeekWire reported that Nooks was expanding its engineering presence in Seattle as it focused on AI-driven productivity software for sales teams. The company said revenue had grown sixfold and its workforce had reached about 200 employees.

2026-02-24product
Introducing AI Sequencing: The Evolution of Intelligent Outbound

Nooks launched AI Sequencing as part of its Agent Workspace, extending automation across list building, account research, and email creation. The product is designed to support unified, multi-channel outbound and remains synchronized with Salesforce and HubSpot.

2025-12-31product
December Product Release: AI Sequencing, Skip Gatekeepers, Live Call Transfer

Nooks's December product release highlighted AI Sequencing, Skip Gatekeepers, and Live Call Transfer as new capabilities for improving outbound dialing and engagement workflows.

2025-11-30product
November Product Release: Do Not Call Report, Transcript Data Export, AI Call Insights Navigation

Nooks's November release added Do Not Call reporting, transcript data export, and improved navigation for AI Call Insights. The update also highlighted Live Battlecards for real-time messaging guidance during calls.

2025-11-13partnership
Outreach Kaia for Nooks - Imported Calls (Beta)

Outreach introduced a beta feature to automatically import third-party call recordings from Nooks into Outreach for conversation intelligence, including topics, sentiment, and talk-time analysis. The feature requires a Nooks integration with Outreach.

2025-10-31product
October Product Release: Sidebar Navigation, Voice Assistant Interaction, Complete Call Library

Nooks's October product release introduced sidebar navigation improvements, voice-assistant interaction updates, and a complete call library.

Active Roles

14
Arlington, VA/Engineering/1d ago
Arlington, VA/Engineering/2d ago
El Segundo, CA/Engineering/3d ago
Arlington, VA/Engineering/6d ago
Colorado Springs, CO/Engineering/6d ago
Washington DC, Maryland, Northern VA, Boston, New York/Operations/6d ago
El Segundo, CA/Engineering/7d ago
West Coast based/Operations/9d ago
El Segundo, CA/Operations/16d ago
Colorado Springs, CO, El Segundo, CA, Huntsville, AL, Arlington, VA, Austin, TX, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY/Operations/21d ago
Arlington, VA/Operations/52d ago
Colorado Springs, CO/Operations/56d ago
Arlington, VA, Colorado Springs, CO, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, El Segundo, CA/HR & Recruiting/64d ago
United States/Other/196d ago

Business Model

Nooks monetizes through team-scaled B2B software plans. Its packages cover buyer signals, AI sequencing, parallel dialing, and coaching, with quote-based pricing that varies by team size, features, and contract terms.

Products

Agent Workspace for GTM and intelligent outboundAI SequencingAI Dialer and parallel dialingAI Prospecting and Signals & IntelligenceAI Coaching

Customers

HubSpotZoomInfoDeelUdemyNotionCursorReplitDecagonRippling

Tech Stack

AI agents and agentic automationReactTypeScriptNode.jsPythonSignal-processing across CRM, web, social, and call data

Competitors

Outreach
Salesloft
Apollo
Gong Engage
Orum
Koncert

Key Investors

Kleiner Perkins, Lachy Groom, SAIC, Upper90, Lockheed Martin