NanoCo Raises $12 Million Seed After Rejecting Roughly $20 Million Buyout
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Updated · TechCrunch · May 20
NanoCo Raises $12 Million Seed After Rejecting Roughly $20 Million Buyout
1 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · May 20
$12 million in oversubscribed seed funding gives NanoCo fresh backing weeks after the NanoClaw launch went viral and the founders turned down an acquisition offer worth about $20 million.
Valley Capital Partners led the round, with Docker, Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures and angel investor Clem Delangue joining after a surge of inbound interest that founder Gavriel Cohen said included 50-plus founders and executives.
NanoClaw drew attention as a security-focused OpenClaw alternative that runs AI agents in sandboxed containers, a setup the brothers built for their previous AI marketing startup before shutting that business to focus on NanoCo.
Many thousands now use NanoClaw, NanoCo says, and the company has begun signing enterprise customers by offering implementation and support services to companies whose employees want internal deployments.
After rejecting a $20M buyout, can NanoCo translate its open-source hype into a profitable enterprise business?
As 'Shadow AI' grows, are secure agents like NanoClaw the solution or just fueling the problem?
Is NanoClaw’s extreme isolation the new standard for AI safety, or a barrier to true agent capability?