Lazer Cohen, 41, had spent 15 years building other people’s companies. His younger brother Gavriel, 36, had spent a decade writing code. Together, they’d quietly bet on each other — their parents included, having invested in the brothers’ earlier AI marketing agency venture before NanoClaw existed.
When Gavriel sat down on Jan. 29 and wrote the first line of code for NanoClaw, he wasn’t thinking about fundraising. He was trying to solve a problem: the agentic tools available to him were powerful but dangerously insecure. So Gavriel, a former Wix developer with a physics and computer science background plus years of obsessive after-hours AI tinkering, built his own.
