NanoCo raises $12M to accelerate NanoClaw, a secure, enterprise-grade agentic AI assistant for every office worker

NanoCo, the startup behind NanoClaw, a fast-growing open-source artificial intelligent agent that’s secure by design, said today it has raised $12 million in seed funding.

The oversubscribed round was led by Valley Capital Partners and saw participation from a host of others, including Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, Clutch Capital, Factorial Capital and Clem Delangue, the Chief Executive Officer of Hugging Face Inc. It came as the company announced the launch of its first enterprise-grade professional agentic artificial intelligence assistant.

NanoClaw is a secure and lightweight professional AI agent that runs locally on people’s computers, offering a safer alternative to complex agentic frameworks such as OpenClaw. It’s designed to serve as an enterprise-grade agentic assistant that goes beyond what simple generative AI assistants can do.

The agent learns an employee’s role and adapts to their work style through ordinary conversation. It slowly develops an understanding of the work each user does, the tools they use, the projects they’re working on, and the people they collaborate with, so that they can automate many of the tasks they perform with an unparalleled degree of accuracy. The user can then assign work to their assistant as necessary in order to become much more productive.