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February 17, 2026

Frontline Ventures backs ‘OpenClaw for founders’ in $4.3m raise

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht, iNovia Capital and Tiny Supercomputer joined the round

Martin Coulter

2 min read

AI startup Toyo has raised $4.3m to build the “OpenClaw for founders”, backed by Frontline Ventures and angels from Cloudflare, Microsoft and Amazon. 

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Martin Coulter

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