AI-powered mobile development startup Minitap has raised $4.1 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri, with additional backing from EWOR, Tekton Ventures, Amigos Venture Capital, and several unicorn founders.
The company also drew support from leading AI and infrastructure experts — including Thomas Wolf, Stefan Glanzer, Michael Breidenbrucker, Paul Muller, Petter Made, Daniel Krauss, Jochen Engert, André Schwämmlein, and Saturnin Pugnet — as well as operators from OpenAI, DeepMind, LangChain, and LlamaIndex.
Bringing AI Efficiency to Mobile
Founded in 2025, Minitap is tackling a long-standing bottleneck: mobile development is significantly slower than web development due to complex device testing, fragmented environments, and intricate build-and-release cycles.
Minitap’s platform dramatically shortens the typical six-week mobile feature cycle through two key components:
- Mobile-Use — an open-source framework that lets AI interact with smartphones like a human would.
- Minitap Cloud — a large-scale device cloud that spins up thousands of iOS and Android devices in parallel.
Together, these systems allow AI to write code, run tests on real hardware, identify issues, fix them, and deploy new features with minimal developer involvement.
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Speed as a Competitive Edge
Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Dehandschoewercker notes that although mobile accounts for about 60% of global internet activity, development velocity still lags far behind the web.
Minitap wants to supercharge experimentation for consumer apps — the kinds of companies, he says, that resemble Duolingo, Calm, and Hinge — enabling them to iterate far more quickly and reduce reliance on large engineering teams.
Co-founder Luc Mahoux-Nakamura adds:
“Every consumer mobile company needs to experiment faster. The ones that run 10x more experiments will dominate their categories. We’re building the infrastructure that makes that pace possible.”
AI-Driven Feature Deployment
Using Minitap, even non-technical teams can ship mobile updates: a product manager provides a description and a Figma mockup, and the AI handles coding, device testing, debugging, and A/B test deployment — often within hours.
Long term, the company envisions fully autonomous mobile apps capable of self-optimizing through continuous experimentation.
About Minitap
Minitap is an AI-powered mobile development platform with research teams in San Francisco and Paris. The company recently open-sourced Mobile-Use, a widely adopted framework enabling AI agents to control mobile devices autonomously. Its mission is to redefine how people build, test, and interact with mobile software.
