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OpenClaw Foundation

Application

Stewards OpenClaw, an open-source personal AI agent (MIT licensed, no paid tier) that organizes an inbox, sends emails, manages a calendar and handles day-to-day tasks from WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack and 25+ other chat apps. Admitted as a documented EXCEPTION to the company-admission-standard's register-verification requirement for non-commercial entities -- see provenance.description for the full entity-verification writeup.

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• OpenClaw AI agent Sold on its own

  Open-source personal AI agent that organizes an inbox, sends emails, manages a calendar and handles day-to-day tasks with persistent memory and full system access, reachable from WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack and 25+ other chat apps. Runs locally via desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, npm, or a one-line installer.

Similar products 8

No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

How this list is ranked ↗

HCH CompanyPrivate · $220M raisedOverlaps on agent orchestration; OpenClaw Foundation's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareAIAGI, Inc.PrivateOpenClaw and AGI-0 both serve buyers who need to automate a form or tidy a desktop with computer use and have an agent run personal chores end to end; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareHHyperWritePrivateOpenClaw and HyperWrite AI Agent (Personal Assistant) both serve buyers who need to automate a form or tidy a desktop with computer use and have an agent run personal chores end to end; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareNRNous ResearchPrivate · $70M raisedOpenClaw and Hermes Agent both serve buyers who need to keep an assistant's memory of a company or team; OpenClaw Foundation's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareMManusPrivateOpenClaw and Manus both serve buyers who need to have an agent run personal chores end to end; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareHHarveyPrivate · $11BOpenClaw and Harvey Memory both serve buyers who need to keep an assistant's memory of a company or team; OpenClaw Foundation's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareBUBrowser UsePrivate · $17M raisedOpenClaw and Browser Use (open-source library) both serve buyers who need to automate a form or tidy a desktop with computer use; OpenClaw Foundation's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareMPMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TOpenClaw and Muse both serve buyers who need to automate a form or tidy a desktop with computer use and have an agent run personal chores end to end; OpenClaw Foundation's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Total funding

Company disclosure · 18 Sep 2026

Donor-funded (University of Michigan, OpenAI, Amazon, Red Hat, Offline Holdings, Lobster Computer Company per the Foundation's own donor list), not a disclosed grant or funding total. No dollar figure is published anywhere; recorded null rather than estimated, matching eleutherai's precedent for the same donor-funded-nonprofit shape.

Valuation

Checked — none published

No valuation to record -- the OpenClaw Foundation is a non-profit, not equity-owned, matching eleutherai's record.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked openclaw.ai and openclaw.org for a self-published headcount; neither states one. Recorded null rather than a round guess.

Founded

Company disclosure · 18 Sep 2026

The OpenClaw Foundation's own launch announcement is dated "Jul 8, 2026". This is the FOUNDATION's launch date, not when Peter Steinberger's underlying open-source project began -- community testimonials on openclaw.ai describe the project itself as roughly six months old as of September 2026, i.e. predating the Foundation. Recorded as 2026 because this record is of the Foundation, the entity being admitted, not the earlier informal project.

Description

Company disclosure · 18 Sep 2026

OpenClaw's own site (openclaw.ai, read 2026-09-18): "OpenClaw is stewarded by the OpenClaw Foundation, an independent US 501(c)(3) non-profit. The Foundation employs the core team, signs every release, and keeps the whole product MIT licensed. There is no enterprise edition and no paid version." On donors: "The Foundation is funded by donors, including the University of Michigan, OpenAI, Amazon, Red Hat, Offline Holdings, and Lobster Computer Company... They do not own, control, or direct the project, and no lab's model is privileged in the code."

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