# Rohan Suri

> Rohan Suri is a Stanford-trained computer scientist, co-founder and product leader at Nooks. He helped turn a pandemic-era virtual workspace into an AI sales platform by following the behavior of its most engaged users, then crossed from engineering into founder-led sales to learn their work firsthand. Nooks raised $70 million by October 2024, including a $43 million Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, and Suri now leads product work spanning dialing, prospecting, coaching and AI-assisted sales workflows.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Nooks
- **Organizations:** Nooks, Stanford University, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Averia Health Solutions, Forethought, Cerebras Systems, Visa, TORC Robotics
- **Education:** Computer Science, Stanford University, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
- **Known for:** Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 twice, at ages 17 and 25., Co-founded Nooks, which had raised $70 million and reached a reported $285 million valuation by October 2024., Built and ran Nooks' early sales-development motion and helped close the company's first $1 million in annual recurring revenue.

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Placed third in Systems Software at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair and founded Averia Health Solutions.
- **2017** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Healthcare at age 17.
- **2018-2019** — Received a $25,000 AI Grant fellowship, won first place at a Visa global hackathon, earned research awards in Stanford machine-learning courses and won the Cybersecurity Grand Prize at TreeHacks.
- **2020** — Co-founded Nooks with Stanford friends Dan Lee and Nikhil Cheerla, initially working on virtual collaboration and classroom concepts.
- **Early Nooks years** — Raised his hand to run founder-led sales, made the company's early cold calls and helped close its first $1 million in annual recurring revenue.
- **2022-2023** — Helped focus Nooks on sales teams and develop the AI dialer as the company moved beyond its original virtual workspace concept.
- **2024-04** — Nooks announced a $22 million Series A led by Lachy Groom, bringing total funding at that point to $27 million.
- **2024-10** — Nooks announced a $43 million Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, a $285 million valuation and $70 million in total funding.
- **2024-12** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in AI alongside Nooks co-founders Dan Lee and Nikhil Cheerla.
- **2025-2026** — Led product strategy as Nooks expanded its platform across AI dialing, sequencing, prospecting, coaching and assistant workflows.

## Achievements

- Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 twice, at ages 17 and 25.
- Co-founded Nooks, which had raised $70 million and reached a reported $285 million valuation by October 2024.
- Built and ran Nooks' early sales-development motion and helped close the company's first $1 million in annual recurring revenue.
- Built the Nooks AI Dialer and later led teams that shipped AI Sequencing and AI Assistant products.
- Won the Cybersecurity Grand Prize at TreeHacks in 2019.
- Won first place and $1,500 at a Visa global hackathon in 2018.
- Received a $25,000 AI Grant fellowship in 2018.
- Maintains an open-source GitHub portfolio whose pinned adaptive radix tree project has attracted more than 100 stars.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Nooks presented Suri as co-founder and Head of Product for a live session on building email, prospecting and coaching agents, noting that he built the AI Dialer and led the teams behind AI Sequencing and AI Assistant.
- **2026-06** — Suri described Nooks' AI Assistant as a shared layer for sales teams to build, measure and reuse agents across prospecting, decks and account work.
- **2025-09** — Appeared on Founder-Led Sales Stories to discuss Nooks' path from a Stanford virtual-classroom project to a sales platform with $70 million in funding.
- **2025-08** — Published Nooks guidance on outbound practices across different industries, drawing on company data and customer implementations.
- **2025-01** — Nooks reported fourfold annual recurring revenue growth during 2024, hundreds of new customers and an expansion from 30 to 90 team members.

## Links

- Website: https://www.nooks.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/surirohan
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/rohansuri_
- GitHub: https://github.com/rohansuri

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Last updated: 2026-09-27