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COSS Weekly: OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw Raises $12M, Dust Raises $40M, Sonar Acquires Gitar, and more

NanoCo, the company behind the OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw, raised a $12M seed round after turning down a $20M buyout offer. Dust secured a $40M Series B for its multiplayer AI platform, while Sonar acquired Gitar to expand its code verification platform. Mistral AI also acquired Emmi AI in an industrial push, and Deno Land continued its challenge of Oracle's JavaScript trademark.

read1 min publishedMay 25, 2026

This week in COSS: NanoCo, the company behind the OpenClaw competitor NanoClaw, turned down a $20M buyout offer and raised a $12M seed round; Dust raised a $40M Series B for its multiplayer AI platform; Sonar acquired Gitar to expand its code verification platform; Mistral AI acquired Emmi AI in an industrial push; and Deno Land continued its challenge of Oracle's JavaScript trademark.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Blindside Networks, Confluent, Dria, EvoMap, NanoCo, Omi, OpenSRE, Parrot Security, Vates, and Workbrew.

Companies mentioned: Deno OSS News & Views · The Register

Companies mentioned: Zulip Announcement · Zulip Blog

Companies mentioned: Mistral AI Announcement · Reuters

Companies mentioned: Black Forest Labs OSS News & Views · Forbes

Companies mentioned: FAL.AI Announcement · VentureBeat

Companies mentioned: NanoCo Funding · TechCrunch

Companies mentioned: NanoCo OSS News & Views · Fortune

Companies mentioned: SonarSource Announcement · Sonar Newsroom

Companies mentioned: Dust Funding · Dust Blog

Companies mentioned: GitButler Media Mention · The Register

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