capital · May 21, 2026
Meet the brothers who turned an AI agent into a $12 million seed round at NanoCo
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NanoCo closed a $12 million seed round led by Valley Capital Partners on May 20, 2026, with Docker, Vercel, monday.com, Slow Ventures, Clutch Capital, and Factorial Capital participating plus angels including Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The Cohen brothers rejected a $20 million acquisition offer before raising at a $62 million valuation. The Docker partnership began when developer relations engineer Oleg Šelajev started using NanoClaw personally then introduced it to his VP, leading to formal integration where agents run in isolated Docker sandboxes. The round was oversubscribed with 30,000 GitHub stars and 250,000 open-source downloads since February 2026.
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