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NanoCo Funding Overview
Seed funding round details for NanoCo
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NanoCo raises $12M to accelerate NanoClaw, a secure, enterprise ...
NanoCo raises $12M to accelerate NanoClaw, a secure, enterprise-grade agentic AI assistant for every office worker NanoCo, the startup behind NanoClaw, a fast-growing open-source artificial intelligent agent that’s secure by design, said today it has raised $12 million in seed funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Valley Capital Partners and saw participation from a host of others, including Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, Clutch Capital, Factorial Capital and Clem Delangue, the Chief Executive Officer of Hugging Face Inc. It came as the company announced the launch of its first enterprise-grade professional agentic artificial intelligence assistant. NanoClaw is a secure and lightweight professional AI agent that runs locally on people’s computers, offering a safer alternative to complex agentic frameworks such as OpenClaw. It’s designed to serve as an enterprise-grade agentic assistant that goes beyond what simple generative AI assistants can do. The agent learns an employee’s role and adapts to their work style through ordinary conversation. It slowly develops an understanding of the work each user does, the tools they use, the projects they’re working on, and the people they collaborate with, so that they can automate many of the tasks they perform with an unparalleled degree of accuracy. The user can then assign work to their assistant as necessary in order to become much more productive. Because NanoClaw agents are deployed directly onto the user’s computer or a company’s own infrastructure, they can use Docker containers to isolate agent sessions to ensure that they’re only allowed to access files and directories they’re given explicit permission to open. They also integrate with Vercel Inc.’s ChatSDK and OneCLI’s credential vault, creating a unified architecture to ensure they cannot go rogue. The way this works is that every request is run through a secure gateway that injects the user’s credentials at runtime, enforcing company-defined policies, based on the secrets management and vault systems used by the organization. Any sensitive actions require explicit human approval, and compliance teams will have enterprise-wide visibility into what each NanoClaw agent is doing. NanoCo co-founder and Chief Executive Gavriel Cohen (pictured left, alongside his brother and co-founder Lazer) told SiliconANGLE that countless early adopters, including multiple CEOs have reported how NanoClaw helps make them two-to-three times more productive once the...
Meet the brothers who turned an AI agent into a $12 million bet on ...
Lazer Cohen, 41, had spent 15 years building other people’s companies. His younger brother Gavriel, 36, had spent a decade writing code. Together, they’d quietly bet on each other — their parents included, having invested in the brothers’ earlier AI marketing agency venture before NanoClaw existed. When Gavriel sat down on Jan. 29 and wrote the first line of code for NanoClaw, he wasn’t thinking about fundraising. He was trying to solve a problem: the agentic tools available to him were powerful but dangerously insecure. So Gavriel, a former Wix developer with a physics and computer science background plus years of obsessive after-hours AI tinkering, built his own. Six weeks later, NanoCo had a term sheet. “We’ve just started rolling out professional assistants to businesses,” Gavriel told Fortune. “We’ve had over 100 companies reach out to us. There’s just more and more reaching out every single day.” NanoCo’s $12 million seed round — led by Valley Capital Partners, with participation from Docker, Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, Clutch Capital and Factorial Cap, plus angel investments from Clem Delangue of HuggingFace, Matias Woloski of Auth0, and Vanja Josifovski, the former CTO of Airbnb — makes NanoCo the first company in the rapidly growing “claw” space to close institutional funding. The round was oversubscribed. When Lazer told his longtime PR clients he was pivoting to build his own startup, the reaction surprised even him. “Any apprehension about what my move would mean for them was outweighed by their excitement,” he said. Two immediately asked to invest. Four more former clients followed. They’re all in the round. An ‘overnight’ success, 15 years in the making The Cohen brothers grew up together and, eventually, built businesses together — though not always in the same direction. Lazer, the elder, built Concrete Media into a PR firm that helped launch over 100 startups. Gavriel spent a decade in engineering, leading a developer team at Wix before the AI wave pulled him toward something bigger. Lazer said that when Gavriel formally joined Concrete Media five years ago, their written partnership agreement explicitly anticipated future startups emerging from the collaboration. “It’s one of those overnight successes that are 10 to 15 years in the making,” he said. The pivot to NanoClaw came organically. “We set up an agent and it was managing our sales pipeline — doing the work of an employee,” Gavriel said. But the open-source tools ava...
