NanoCo, the company behind NanoClaw, a security-focused alternative to OpenClaw, raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round after a viral launch. The round was led by Valley Capital Partners and included participation from Docker, Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, and angel investors such as Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. In weeks, the NanoClaw creator moved from coding on his couch to receiving viral endorsements, inbound interest from dozens of investors, and a roughly $20 million acquisition offer that was declined. Interest accelerated after praise from Andrej Karpathy and a viral post from Singapore’s foreign minister calling NanoClaw his “second brain.” NanoClaw was built to help the Cohen brothers with security needs.
"“It was under six weeks from committing the first lines of code to a term sheet,” Gavriel told TechCrunch. “There was a lot of inbound and interest,” he added. “People reaching out in DMs on X and sending emails.” He estimated that about 50 or more founders and tech executives sent DMs asking to invest."
"“I like what you're doing with NanoClaw.” Gavriel then responded in kind, telling the Hugging Face CEO that he liked the company's tiny robot, Reachy Mini, and hoped to run NanoClaw on it one day. The two programmers then started talking shop, and Cohen eventually asked Delangue if he was interested in angel investing and secured a yes."
"As we previously reported, interest in NanoClaw skyrocketed after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy tweeted his praise for it. But the project really began to snowball after the Foreign Minister of Singapore called NanoClaw his “second brain” in a Facebook post that went viral. NanoClaw was created as a secure alternative to OpenClaw to assist the Cohen brothers with t"
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