Minitap has raised £3 million in a seed round co-led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri, with participation from EWOR, Tekton Ventures and Amigos Venture Capital. The company builds an AI system that can operate mobile devices more reliably than tools from much larger labs.
Minitap’s founders, Nicolas Dehandschoewercker and Luc Mahoux-Nakamura, have drawn attention not just for the company’s technology, but for the way they built it. Dehandschoewercker previously built a consumer app while studying in London and became frustrated by how long mobile development took.
That insight led the founders to create internal tools to speed up their own work – tools that evolved into Minitap. At twenty-three, the pair developed an AI agent that outperformed Google DeepMind on its own mobile benchmark.
Mobile engineers still write app code without meaningful help from AI. If something is off by a few pixels or an interaction fails, the engineer must manually intervene, slowing development.
Minitap links its agent to a virtual phone in the cloud so it can view screens, test interactions and report issues. This helps developers move faster, bringing closer parity with the speed of web development tools.
The seed round follows growing demand for faster mobile development and public benchmark results showing the company’s work is reproducible. The company plans to work with early design partners to refine pricing and deployment models.
