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NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead
NanoCo, the company behind OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised a $12 million seed after a viral launch, the founders tell TechCrunch.
TL;DR
- NanoCo, the creator of NanoClaw, has raised $12 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round.
- The funding round was led by Valley Capital Partners and saw participation from Docker, Vercel, and Monday.com, among others.
- Founders Gavriel and Lazer Cohen declined a $20 million acquisition offer for NanoClaw.
- NanoClaw gained viral traction after endorsements from AI researcher Andrej Karpathy and Singapore's foreign minister.
- The company is now offering enterprise implementation services for NanoClaw AI agents.
- Executives from Amazon, Google, Meta, and Accenture are reportedly using NanoClaw.