Israeli startup NanoCo, which builds security and governance controls for AI agents, has raised a $12 million seed round led by Valley Capital Partners. Docker, Vercel, and monday.com also took part. Founded by brothers Lazar and Gavriel Cohen, the company grew out of their frustration with OpenClaw, an agent platform they doubted could be trusted with company data. They built NanoClaw, an open-source alternative with about 4,000 lines of code, against OpenClaw's half a million. It runs agents in isolated sandboxes, and a gateway lets a human approve or deny requests. NanoClaw has gained more than 30,000 stars on GitHub. NanoCo's enterprise product deploys in a customer's own cloud, so the customer keeps control of its data. The company has about 20 employees across three countries.

Three stocks have surged over the past month, but only one has the fundamentals to back it up, according to StockStory's analysis of momentum stocks. It rates monday.com (NASDAQ:MNDY) a buy after a 34.8% one-month gain. The cloud-based work platform's annual recurring revenue (ARR) grew 24.3% on average over the last year, and its gross margin of 88.7% is best-in-class. Shares trade at $106.55, or 3x forward price-to-sales. It advises ignoring AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN), up 40.1%. Travelers on assignment have fallen for two years, earnings per share have declined for five, and returns on capital are shrinking. The stock trades at $48.01, or 55.1x forward earnings. It also rejects insurer RLI (NYSE:RLI), up 15.9%. Premium growth of 6.1% lagged peers, and book value per share fell 1.6% annually over two years. Shares trade at $64.86.

monday.com (MNDY) has launched Harmony, an AI calling platform built on specialised small language models that handle live sales conversations from start to finish. It targets mid-market and enterprise customers across several major regions. Shares rose 6.70% in one day and 25.79% over 30 days. They are still down 25.49% this year, and the one-year total shareholder return has fallen 45.54%. The stock last closed at $106.86, just under a popular fair value estimate of $108.87, which implies it is about 2% undervalued. At 37.3x earnings, though, it trades above the US software industry's 32.9x but below peers on 45.7x. Softer Q3 2026 revenue guidance and easing net dollar retention remain risks.