Nue.io raises $20M Series A led by Inovia Capital - January 2025 Mark Walker: serial founder, 30+ years building enterprise software Nue.io achieves $10M ARR with 3x year-over-year growth in 2024 OpenAI uses Nue.io to manage its revenue operations Nue AI launches: intelligent revenue operations at the click of a button Nue acquires Approvals Pro to accelerate deal velocity From Osgoode Hall Law School to CPQ disruption - Mark Walker's 30-year pivot Nue.io raises $20M Series A led by Inovia Capital - January 2025 Mark Walker: serial founder, 30+ years building enterprise software Nue.io achieves $10M ARR with 3x year-over-year growth in 2024 OpenAI uses Nue.io to manage its revenue operations Nue AI launches: intelligent revenue operations at the click of a button Nue acquires Approvals Pro to accelerate deal velocity From Osgoode Hall Law School to CPQ disruption - Mark Walker's 30-year pivot
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Mark
Walker

CEO & Co-Founder, Nue.io  ·  Toronto, ON & San Francisco, CA

The revenue stack at most B2B companies is quietly broken - bolted together from decade-old CPQ software and billing tools that were never meant to talk to each other. Mark Walker is the person trying to fix that.

CEO Co-Founder Serial Entrepreneur Revenue Operations CPQ SaaS Salesforce-Native
Mark Walker, CEO of Nue.io

Mark Walker  /  Nue.io  /  San Francisco

$40M
Total Funding Raised
$10M
ARR (2024)
3x
YoY Sales Growth 2024
30+
Years in Enterprise Software
"Legacy CPQ systems were built for a world that no longer exists. Every modern revenue team deserves infrastructure that moves as fast as they do."
- Mark Walker, CEO, Nue.io
The Platform

One system. Every revenue motion.

Nue sits natively inside Salesforce and unifies the pieces that every B2B revenue team has historically cobbled together from separate vendors. The result is a single source of truth for quotes, orders, billing, subscriptions, usage, and analytics.

CPQ
Configure, Price, Quote

AI-driven configuration handles complex multi-product bundles, tiered pricing, volume discounts, and multi-currency deals - all inside Salesforce without a separate integration layer.

Revenue Lifecycle
Order to Cash

Amendments, renewals, upgrades, co-terms, and mid-cycle changes - the messy lifecycle events that break legacy systems - are handled natively, with full audit trails and approval workflows.

Billing & Analytics
Subscriptions, Usage & Intelligence

Automated invoicing across subscription and consumption models. Real-time revenue forecasting and business intelligence baked in, not bolted on.

30 years, one direction

1987 - 1990
Completed law degree at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Pivots into technology instead of the bar.
1990s - 2000s
Built expertise in SaaS, CRM, and ERP systems. Took executive roles across multiple technology companies including Skyytek (NetSuite VAR) and ScribbleLive.
2000s
CEO of Blanketware. COO at ScribbleLive, which later exits to Rock Content.
2013
Founds Strongpoint - a Salesforce-native security, audit, and compliance solution. Builds it into a category leader.
2019
Co-founds Nue.io with Tina Kung (ex-Salesforce CPQ, Zuora) and Brian Keare. Targets the fragmented revenue operations market.
March 2021
Strongpoint acquired by Netwrix. Walker now fully focused on scaling Nue.io.
2024
Nue.io hits $10M ARR, achieves 3x year-over-year sales growth. OpenAI becomes a customer.
January 2025
Nue raises $20M Series A led by Inovia Capital. Launches Nue AI. Acquires Approvals Pro. Total funding reaches $40M.
Depth of Field

What 20 years in the revenue trenches buys you

Walker spent years at the intersection of NetSuite, Salesforce, and the broader enterprise CRM stack - long enough to understand not just how these systems work, but how they fail at scale. The failure modes are consistent: pricing models outgrow the tool's data model, billing logic becomes unmaintainable, every new product launch requires a new workaround. Most revenue teams quietly absorb this debt until it starts visibly slowing down sales cycles or causing invoicing errors at the worst possible time.

The Series A announcement in January 2025 came with a specific number that Walker uses to contextualize the opportunity: a 3x year-over-year sales growth rate in 2024. That is not a metric that just happens. It suggests Nue found something real in the market - that enough decision-makers at enough B2B companies had reached the same conclusion Walker had been articulating since 2019. The old tools are not going to get better. The next generation of revenue infrastructure needs to be rebuilt from scratch.

The customer list tells the same story. OpenAI - a company with a notoriously complex and fast-moving commercial model, selling AI at multiple price points across multiple products to enterprise and API customers simultaneously - chose Nue to manage its revenue operations. Keith Jones, OpenAI's Head of GTM Systems, stated directly that the result would not have been achievable with any other system. That is a reference from a company that had its pick of every vendor in the market.

"Nue is designed for the omnichannel economy - where every pricing motion needs to work in every channel, without anyone having to rebuild the system to handle it."
- Mark Walker, Nue.io

What he has built

  • Founded and grew Strongpoint to acquisition by Netwrix (2021) - a full 8-year company building cycle
  • Co-founded Nue.io in 2019; grew to $10M ARR and $40M total raised by 2025
  • Assembled a founding team from the engineers who actually built Salesforce CPQ and Zuora
  • Landed OpenAI as a customer for a company managing one of the most complex commercial pricing stacks in tech
  • Achieved 3x year-over-year sales growth at Nue in 2024 ahead of the Series A raise
  • Raised $20M Series A from Inovia Capital alongside Information Venture Partners, Bluefish Capital, and NextWorld Capital
  • Launched Nue AI - intelligent revenue operations automation built into the platform
  • Acquired Approvals Pro to extend deal approval workflow capabilities

Nue's tech stack

Built for the modern revenue stack. Natively Salesforce. Deeply integrated with the tools enterprise teams already run.

Salesforce React Node.js AWS Lambda TypeScript Snowflake Salesforce CPQ Salesforce CRM Apache Kafka Kubernetes PostgreSQL Terraform Anthropic Claude GitHub Actions Stripe Amazon EKS Zuora NetSuite Apex Spring Boot
Off the Record

Five things worth knowing

01 / Background
He trained as a lawyer

Osgoode Hall Law School. Graduated 1990. Never practiced. Went straight into technology - and built three decades of enterprise software expertise on a legal mind that thinks in frameworks and contracts.

02 / Competition
His CTO built the system he's replacing

Co-founder Tina Kung previously led engineering at both Salesforce CPQ and Zuora - the two dominant platforms Nue is positioned to displace. When Nue says it knows legacy CPQ's flaws, it is not guessing.

03 / Customer
OpenAI trusts Nue with its revenue ops

OpenAI's GTM Systems team chose Nue to manage revenue operations for one of the most complex pricing models in enterprise tech. The Head of GTM Systems said they "could not have accomplished this" with any other system.

04 / Geography
Toronto-based, San Francisco-HQ'd

Walker is based in Toronto, Ontario - while Nue's headquarters are in San Francisco. The company runs across both cities as part of a distributed-first operation with roots in both the Canadian and Silicon Valley ecosystems.

05 / Timing
Founded Nue before the AI wave

Nue was founded in 2019 - before AI transformed every product pitch. The core insight was about broken revenue infrastructure, not AI. The AI layer (Nue AI, launched 2025) came as a natural extension, not the original thesis.

06 / Exit
Strongpoint to Netwrix: 8 years, one exit

Walker founded Strongpoint in 2013, built it over eight years as a Salesforce-native security and audit solution, then sold it to Netwrix in March 2021. Classic patient operator execution before starting Nue.

Mark Walker on video

The long game in revenue infrastructure

Walker's stated ambition is to make Nue.io the definitive revenue lifecycle platform for modern B2B companies - not just a CPQ replacement, but the unified engine that handles every pricing motion across every channel at scale. The $20M Series A announced in January 2025 is earmarked for product innovation, customer success expansion, and global growth. The acquisition of Approvals Pro in early 2025 signals that Walker is building Nue through both organic development and strategic acquisitions.

The market Walker is targeting is enormous. CPQ software alone is a multi-billion dollar category; when you extend the scope to the full quote-to-cash and revenue lifecycle stack, the total addressable market grows considerably. What differentiates Nue's position is the Salesforce-native architecture - enterprises do not have to rip out their CRM to adopt it. For the large and growing base of Salesforce customers who have also been suffering under legacy CPQ and billing limitations, Nue offers a path that does not require rebuilding from scratch.

Walker's companies have a consistent trait: they go deep on a specific problem inside a specific ecosystem, build the domain expertise that makes surface-level competitors irrelevant, and grow slowly enough to get it right before accelerating. Strongpoint took eight years. Nue is now six years old, just closed its Series A, and by the metrics available - ARR, growth rate, customer quality - is exactly where the timeline predicts it should be.

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