Nowadays
Headquarters: San Francisco
CEO: Anna Sun
Website: Nowadays
Founding date: June 2023
Investment: $2M
Nowadays is an AI-native platform that automates venue sourcing, negotiation and reporting—replacing the manual chaos of emails, spreadsheets and legacy tools. Our AI does not just summarize—it actively calls and emails hotels globally, negotiates in real time and returns structured and compliant results. Enterprises use us to centralize meetings spend, increase negotiation power and move at startup speed.
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Below, we asked Nowadays to share strategic goals for 2026 and lessons learned since founding.
Strategic goals for 2026
We are focused on deepening platform partnerships with industry leaders like Northstar Meetings Group so that Nowadays becomes the default infrastructure behind venue sourcing and small-to-mid meeting automation global.
Our goal is to become a household name in travel by serving as the system of record for corporate meetings across every major market, language and industry.
Lessons learned since founding
Some of our biggest breakthroughs came from ignoring industry norms and rebuilding from first principles. Asking what experience planners should have instead of accepting what is standard. The best user experience is not incremental. It is reimagined from the ground up.
We also learned that doing the unscalable early. Truly acting like an extension of a customer’s team is what creates the clarity and trust to eventually build something that scales dramatically with AI.
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