The creators of NanoClaw — the hit open source, enterprise-friendly variant of autonomous AI agent harness OpenClaw — are moving towards commercializing their technology for enterprises at scale, aiming to provide them with secure AI agents, and an ever-updating library of workplace context, for each human employee the enterprise has approved.The duo, including former Wix.com engineer Gavriel Cohen and his brother Lazer Cohen, also founder of tech public relations firm Concrete Media, shared with VentureBeat that their new startup, NanoCo AI, has received a $12 million oversubscribed seed round was led by Valley Capital Partners. The round features a roster of strategic backers that reads like an enterprise infrastructure all-star team, including Docker, Vercel, monday.com, Factorial Capital, and Hugging Face CEO and founder Clem Delangue.Buoyed by the seed round, NanoCo AI wants to move beyond basic automation to offer every enterprise worker a secure “professional assistant.” Yet they are still committed to building out and maintaining NanoClaw as an MIT Licensed, enterprise-friendly, open source standard — just offering specialized commercial managed services integration atop it. The new killer use case: an informed, ever-updating personal assistant for each human workerGavriel, now CEO of NanoCo AI, sees this personalized approach as the ultimate unlock for the modern worker. “The killer use case is the the one to one we’re calling it professional assistant,” Cohen explained in a recent exclusive interview with VentureBeat. “If you can give someone an agent and make them twice, three times as effective, then you probably want more people as well, right?” He noted that as users forward emails, documents, and call notes to the agent …
