Israeli AI start-up NanoCo brings governance and security to enterprise AI agents

Israeli AI startup NanoCo, founded by brothers Lazer and Gavriel Cohen, raised $12 million in seed funding led by Valley Capital Partners. The company builds security and governance layers for enterprise AI agents. Its open-source platform NanoClaw has over 30,000 GitHub stars and uses a 4,000-line codebase with sandboxed execution and human-in-the-loop approval.

Israeli AI startup NanoCo, founded by brothers Lazer and Gavriel Cohen, has raised $12 million in seed funding led by Valley Capital Partners, with participation from Docker, Vercel, and monday.com. The company focuses on building security, governance, and control layers for enterprise AI agents. Its open-source platform NanoClaw uses a 4,000-line codebase, significantly smaller than alternatives, and runs agents in isolated sandboxes with a human-in-the-loop gateway for approving requests. The platform has accumulated over 30,000 stars on GitHub. The enterprise version deploys into customer cloud environments, allowing organizations to maintain data ownership. Investors and users cited include Glilot Capital Partners and Analog Ventures. The company employs about 20 people across Israel, Spain, and the US.