NanoClaw, a Secure Alternative to OpenClaw, Attracts Massive Investor Attention

IBL News | New York

NanoClaw creator Gavriel Cohen and his brother and co-founder, Lazer Cohen [in the picture above], whose project was created and launched in under six weeks, declined a $20 million acquisition offer and instead raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round for NanoCo, a secure alternative to OpenClaw.

The funding was led by Valley Capital Partners and included participation from Docker, Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, and angels such as Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face and creator of the open-source tiny robot Reachy Mini.

Gavriel Cohen said that about 50 or more founders and tech executives sent DMs asking to invest.

Interest in NanoClaw went viral after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy tweeted his praise for it. The project skyrocketed after Singapore’s foreign minister called NanoClaw his “second brain” in a Facebook post.

Instead of running directly on a computer, with access to all services and credentials, NanoClaw runs sandboxed in a container — a practice that is becoming a common solution to running more secure, OpenClaw-like setups.

NanoClaw has many thousands of users. Early adopters include executives with technical skills at tech companies, such as Amazon, Gap, Google, Meta, SentinelOne, and Accenture

NanoCo is offering implementation services, these days known as “forward-deployed engineers,” to help businesses roll out NanoClaw AI agents to employees and provide ongoing support.