Nooks, a company redefining classified workspaces through its Classified-Infrastructure-as-a-Service (CIaaS) model, announced the closing of its $25 million Series A funding round. This funding round brings together an extraordinary team of partners, including Zigg Capital, Upper90, SAIC, and Lockheed Martin, to propel Nooks into its next phase of growth and innovation.
What Nooks does: Nooks is focused on creating secure, modern, and affordable access to classified facilities for government agencies, contractors, and industry innovators. As a further testament to this pursuit, Nooks has started integrating advanced technologies and process streamlining in classified workspaces through the Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) program and the DARPA Prospero contract.
How this funding round will be used: With this new round of funding round, Nooks is advancing its ability to bridge gaps in infrastructure to enable faster collaboration and drive mission success for their customers.
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“The Defense Industrial Base needs Nooks to be successful if our country is going to be competitive in the 21st century. The National Security community is spending far too much time and too much cost on bespoke and specialized secure infrastructure – there is a way to dramatically increase speed and efficiency for everyone that Nooks is aggressively pursuing.”
“I am incredibly proud of the investment team we have brought together that are so passionate about solving this problem through a (long overdue) shared access model for classified infrastructure. We’ve put together a truly winning lineup of talent, capital, and government support to get this done.”
Sean Blackman, CEO of Nooks
“Nooks is capitalizing on a once-in-a-generation opportunity to solve urgent critical infrastructure needs for Defense technology startups, Defense Primes and Government agencies. Zigg is excited to bring our commercial real estate expertise to the company to help it grow in an asset-light fashion. In the years ahead, we will build a portfolio of millions of square feet of modern SCIF infrastructure and re-activate underutilized office buildings across the country.”
Dave Eisenberg, Founder and Managing Director of Zigg Capital
“At Lockheed Martin Ventures, our mission is to invest in and partner with companies that can help unlock cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions to support our customers’ most pressing challenges. Nooks’ approach to providing classified environments and secure infrastructure is a great example of the kind of innovative thinking that aligns with our mission, and we’re excited to support their efforts to transform the national security ecosystem.”
Chris Moran, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Ventures
“SAIC’s investment in Nooks helps meet our customers’ mission requirements and brings flexible access to classified infrastructure across government, startups and companies like SAIC too. We have entered into this innovative partnership to support Nooks’ vision and serve as a channel to advanced technology solutions, a talented workforce and government-ready secure infrastructure.”
Michael Hauser, Managing Partner of SAIC Ventures
