A few months ago, we hit a wall that changed everything. AI agents worked on desktop, but the moment we needed them on mobile, where humans actually spend their time, everything broke.
Mobile was the final frontier for AI. But not anymore.
The investment round was led by Merantix Capital, with participation from SixtyDegree Capital and prominent angel investors from the open-source and AI ecosystem, including Peter Sarlin (Co-Founder of Silo AI, acquired by AMD), Philipp Langnickel (angel investor focused on software infrastructure and developer tools), Mandeep Singh (Venture Partner at Hoxton Ventures, former CEO of Trouva), and Felix Jahn (Founder of McMakler and Home24).
The Mobile Problem No One Solved
3+ billion people spend hours daily on mobile devices, yet this platform remains completely inaccessible to AI automation. Desktop? Solved. Web? Easy. Mobile? Impossible.
Every existing solution tried to make AI “see” mobile screens like humans, slow, expensive, and constantly breaking on real apps.
We took a different path: convert mobile UIs into structured text that LLMs understand natively. The result?Precise, production-ready mobile automation that actually works.
What Changed in 10 Weeks
The response to our open-source framework was explosive:
> 900+ developers signed up in 24 hours
> 3,400+ GitHub stars and growing
> #1 performance on AndroidWorld benchmark
The Infrastructure Play
We’re not building another automation tool. We’re building the missing infrastructure layer that connects AI systems to the mobile platforms where business actually happens.
Within a few years, automated workflows will outnumber human interactions on mobile devices. Instead of switching between a dozen apps to book a business trip, checking flights on one app, hotels on another, expenses on a third, then updating your calendar and notifying your team, you’ll simply tell your Agent “book my trip to Berlin next week for the client meeting.” The agent handles everything automatically.
But this goes far beyond personal convenience. Enterprises will deploy mobile AI agents to retrieve critical data trapped in mobile-only platforms, automate workflows that handle mission-critical business operations, and extend their RPA systems to mobile environments where employees actually work. QA teams will run comprehensive testing across mobile apps autonomously. Customer service agents will resolve issues by accessing data across any mobile platform.
This future will fundamentally transform mobile interactions. Instead of static app icons and manual navigation, we’ll have agentic UIs that adapt and respond intelligently, or entirely new operating systems designed around AI agents rather than human touch.
For this transformation to happen, agents need seamless access to mobile systems. We’re building that infrastructure.
Explore our framework: https://github.com/droidrun/mobilerun
Look into our docs: https://docs.mobilerun.ai/quickstart
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