folk
Independent · Nozomio Labs · San Francisco, CA
Personal assistant that lives in iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp and texts you first. It books tables, watches flights and handles email when asked, runs background watchers, and works through multi-step tasks from its own cloud computer.
Company-level seed for Nozomio Labs, which also builds Nia, a context tool for coding agents, so it is not a folk-only round; announced September 1, 2025 per startup press. An aggregator lists a further $62M round in February 2026 that no company statement or reporting confirms, so it is not counted.
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No figure has been disclosed publicly.
Post-money valuation is the price implied by the last priced round, not a current market value. On the map, bubble area is proportional to it.
- Last round
- Seed · $6.2MSep 1, 2025Reported · Nozomio Labs ↗
- Total funding
- $6.2MCumulative figure · Reported · Nozomio Labs ↗
Capability scores · out of 100
Lives entirely inside iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp, with no app to install.
Scoring noteEditorial estimate under the existing rubric: it texts first, runs background watchers on flights and prices, and books tables or handles email when asked; payments and phone calls are not advertised.
Company context
Founded 2025.
- Arlan RakhmetzhanovFounder
Free plan with unlimited chatting and three background watchers; Pro $9.99 a month (folk.com, October 5, 2026).
Round investors
Coverage & sources
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Pages an editor visited to confirm facts on this profile. These are evidence, not news.
- folk product, channels and pricing ↗Nozomio Labs · checked Oct 5, 2026
- Nozomio Labs location and seed round ↗Nozomio Labs · checked Oct 5, 2026
Last checked in dataset · Oct 5, 2026
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