Gavriel Cohen built NanoClaw to address insecurity in existing agentic tools, starting by writing the first line of code on Jan. 29 without focusing on fundraising. After six weeks, NanoCo received a term sheet. The company then raised a $12 million seed round led by Valley Capital Partners, with participation from multiple venture firms and angel investors including leaders from HuggingFace, Auth0, and Airbnb. NanoCo began rolling out professional assistants to businesses and reported that over 100 companies reached out, with daily growth in inbound interest. Lazer Cohen’s PR clients reacted positively to his pivot into the startup, with several clients investing immediately and joining the round.
"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."
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