After more than 250,000 open-source downloads of NanoClaw, NanoCo is rolling out enterprise AI assistants designed to integrate with a company’s internal tools and knowledge systems while adapting to how employees work.
NanoCo, creator of the open-source AI agent framework NanoClaw, announced Wednesday that it raised $12 million in seed funding alongside the launch of its enterprise assistant platform. The oversubscribed round was led by Valley Capital Partners, with participation from Docker, Vercel, monday.com, Slow Ventures, Clutch Capital, Factorial Capital and Clem Delangue.
“Enterprise executives kept telling us they were already using NanoClaw personally and wanted to expand it across their organizations,” said Gavriel Cohen, co-founder and CEO of NanoCo. “Many of them concluded that the value of these systems depends on their ability to operate inside the tools and data employees already use, while still meeting security requirements.”
Cohen said NanoClaw gained traction because users could run it in environments they considered more secure and controllable than many consumer AI products. NanoCo, he said, is now focused on turning that experience into a broader enterprise platform that organizations can deploy company-wide.
NanoCo’s assistants operate inside workplace tools including Slack, Microsoft Teams and other enterprise systems already used by employees. The company says the agents are designed not only to answer questions but also to carry out tasks such as drafting legal documents, managing customer accounts and reviewing code. According to NanoCo, the assistants build a persistent understanding of an employee’s projects, role, tools and workflow over time.
The company said some early users have described the assistants as becoming more useful as they accumulate context from ongoing interactions. NanoCo also cited adoption among government officials and startup teams experimenting with AI-driven workflows.
“I started using NanoClaw as a personal AI assistant that remembers projects, preferences and prior conversations,” said Matt McConley, senior digital product manager at Johnson Health Tech and founder of looksphere.ai. “Over time, we expanded it to our six-person startup team, where it became a shared internal knowledge resource and a way to create specialized agents for different tasks.”
McConley said the platform helped his team handle a larger workload without immediately increasing headcount. He added that employees can ask questions grounded in company-specific information or create agents focused on particular assignments and workflows.
NanoCo said customers can either deploy the assistants directly inside their own infrastructure or have the company host the systems on their behalf. The startup works with customers to integrate the assistants into existing enterprise tools, workflows and internal systems.
According to the company, every agent runs in a separate Docker-powered sandbox environment. Credentials are managed through external gateways rather than being directly exposed to the agent itself, NanoCo said, with organizations able to apply their own access policies and integrate existing secrets-management systems.
The company added that sensitive actions require human approval and that every action taken by an agent can be monitored and audited by security and compliance teams. NanoCo also said customers can run the system on local AI models so sensitive data does not leave company-controlled infrastructure.
“We are watching AI shift from tools that answer questions to systems that can carry out work-related tasks,” said Steve O'Hara, founder and managing partner at Valley Capital Partners. He said the firm viewed NanoCo’s partnerships, enterprise adoption and security-focused approach as important factors behind the investment.
Mark Cavage, president and COO of Docker, said enterprises are increasingly looking for ways to run AI agents with stronger governance and isolation controls. He said Docker’s sandbox infrastructure is intended to provide the security and operational controls needed for enterprise deployments.
NanoCo builds and deploys AI assistants for enterprise customers and is the creator of NanoClaw, which the company says has surpassed 250,000 downloads and nearly 30,000 GitHub stars. Based in Tel Aviv with a team of 10 employees, NanoCo was founded in 2026 by brothers Gavriel Cohen and Lazer Cohen.
In addition to the firms participating in the seed round, NanoCo said the company also received angel investments from executives and founders including Alan Bekker, Arick Goomanovsky, Itamar Golan, Jack Dayan, Matias Woloski, Shahar Tal and Vanja Josifovski.