Minicor raises $3.8M to turn legacy desktop software into APIs
Faizaan Chishtie and Saheed Akinbile are pitching desktop automation as an integration layer for AI products blocked by systems without usable APIs.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Minicor is raising capital to make interface-level automation behave like enterprise integration infrastructure. That could help AI vendors deploy into older systems sooner, while leaving reliability, auditability and repeatable customer deployments as the key tests.

Faizaan Chishtie (@faizchishtie) and co-founder Saheed Akinbile raised a $3.8 million seed round for Minicor, which turns workflows in legacy desktop software into API endpoints. Chishtie announced the financing on October 14th, saying the round was led by Brad Gillespie at IA Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Paul Graham.…