# Valence

> Valence builds Nadia, an enterprise AI coach deployed across the Fortune 500 to give every employee always-on, personalized leadership and performance coaching. Founded by Parker Mitchell, the New York company pivoted from team-performance software to generative AI coaching after the release of ChatGPT, and now runs 50+ global deployments and more than one million coaching conversations with NPS scores consistently above 90. It raised a $50M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in September 2025.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Parker Mitchell (Co-founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~140 employees
- **Products:** Nadia, Team & Manager Tools
- **Notable:** Built Nadia, the most widely deployed AI-native coach across the Fortune 500., Surpassed 1 million coaching conversations across 50+ global enterprise deployments., Sustained NPS scores consistently above 90 - rare for enterprise HR software.

## Products & services

- **Nadia** — An enterprise AI coach for leadership development, performance, and collaboration. Nadia combines the wisdom of a mentor, the contextual knowledge of a manager, the support of an assistant, and the strategic insight of a chief of staff. It offers persistent memory for personalized advice, role-play and simulation of difficult conversations, multilingual support for global workforces, and integrations with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
- **Team & Manager Tools** — Earlier Valence products focused on team diagnostics, manager enablement, and team performance - tools that help managers run better teams, build trust, and improve collaboration and psychological safety.

## Achievements

- Built Nadia, the most widely deployed AI-native coach across the Fortune 500.
- Surpassed 1 million coaching conversations across 50+ global enterprise deployments.
- Sustained NPS scores consistently above 90 - rare for enterprise HR software.
- Raised a $50M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in September 2025 (~$75M total raised).
- Adoption by roughly one-third of Experian's global workforce.
- Pivoted to generative AI coaching within weeks of ChatGPT's release and shipped Nadia in early 2023.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Valence raised a $50M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners to give every employee an AI coach at work; Sameer Dholakia joined the board.
- **2025-10** — Series B widely covered across press (PR Newswire, Built In NYC, Yahoo Finance, FinSMEs) framing Valence as the company behind the world's first enterprise AI coach.
- **2026-01** — Valence convened its AI & The Workforce Summit, with Parker Mitchell interviewing speakers including Ethan Mollick, Reid Hoffman, Prasad Setty, Gillian Tett, and Geoffrey Hinton.
- **2026-01** — Released Nadia updates including deeper Microsoft 365 ecosystem integrations.

## Links

- Website: https://www.valence.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/valenceteams
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Valence-Teams

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