In a striking demonstration of youthful ingenuity, Minitap, the AI-driven mobile development platform, has raised $4.1 million in seed funding co-led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri, with participation from EWOR, Tekton Ventures, Amigos Venture Capital, and six unicorn founders including leaders from Hugging Face and SumUp.
Founded in 2025 by 23-year-olds Nicolas Dehandschoewercker (CEO) and Luc Mahoux-Nakamura (Co-Founder), Minitap addresses the long-standing inefficiency in mobile development. Within 40 days of launching their solution, the duo surpassed teams from Google DeepMind, ByteDance, Microsoft Research, and Alibaba on AndroidWorld, the benchmark for AI-controlled mobile devices.
“Mobile is 60% of internet usage but moves at 10% the speed of web,” said Nicolas Dehandschoewercker, CEO of Minitap. “Our goal is to close that gap, enabling consumer app companies to ship features 10x faster.”
Luc Mahoux-Nakamura, Co-Founder of Minitap, adds, “Companies that can experiment faster will dominate their markets. Minitap builds the infrastructure that makes this possible.”
The technical breakthrough comes via Minitap’s mobile-use framework, allowing AI agents to control devices, and Minitap Cloud, which spins up thousands of real devices in parallel for testing. These innovations enable autonomous coding, testing, and deployment, dramatically compressing development cycles.
Investors are taking notice. Daniel Dippold, Founder and CEO of EWOR, praised the founders: “Nicolas leads one of the fastest teams I’ve seen, blending mobile development, AI research, and operational mastery.” Katie Jacobs Stanton, Founder and GP at Moxxie Ventures, called the founders’ achievement of beating Google “rare and remarkable.”
Editorial Perspective:
Minitap is positioned at the intersection of AI and mobile, a sector that remains under-optimized compared to web development. By automating testing and deployment across diverse devices, the platform promises to reshape the economics of mobile feature development. Early success on global benchmarks and backing by six unicorn founders reflect both market confidence and technical validation.
The potential impact extends beyond speed: consumer mobile companies could iterate features autonomously, dramatically reducing time-to-market and enabling smaller teams to compete with tech giants. If executed effectively, Minitap could redefine mobile development norms and set a precedent for agentic AI in product engineering.
Outlook:
With $4.1M in seed funding, Minitap is poised to expand its AI-driven infrastructure, recruit top talent, and scale adoption across consumer apps worldwide. The combination of open-source innovation, cloud-scale testing, and rapid iteration positions it as a rare contender capable of fundamentally transforming mobile development.
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