Valence
Valence builds Nadia, an AI-native enterprise coaching system using machine learning and natural language processing to deliver personalised leadership development to every employee.
Valence is an enterprise software company that applies artificial intelligence to leadership development. Its core system, Nadia, is an AI-native coaching platform that combines machine learning and natural language processing with coaching expertise. Nadia models individual work styles, team dynamics and organisational context, and delivers personalised guidance within the flow of daily work rather than through separate training sessions. The stated aim is to make executive-level coaching available to every employee in an organisation.
The technical work spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and the design of AI coaching systems. Nadia has delivered over 1m coaching conversations to date, and the company reports user satisfaction above 90%. The system is sold to large enterprises: more than 50 Fortune 500 companies are customers, across leadership development and human resources and talent development use cases.
Founded in 2018, Valence raised $50m in a Series B round and operates with a global footprint. The company describes its mission as democratising access to coaching and its broader vision as reimagining human-AI collaboration to unlock human potential, with an emphasis on personalised, in-the-flow-of-work development.