Nigerian Co-Founder’s Minicor Raises $3.8M for AI–Legacy Integration
A San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Nigerian software engineer Saheed Akinbile has raised $3.8 million in seed funding to solve one of enterprise AI’s least glamorous—but most stubborn—problems: getting modern AI tools to talk to old business softw
Minicor disclosed the funding in a statement seen by Nairametrics. The
investment will support the company’s push to connect AI-powered applications with legacy business systems that lack modern integration capabilitrprise AI adoption.
For many large organisations, the AI dream stalls at the integration layer. Payroll, ERP, customer records and core operations often sit in aging software built long before today’s AI boom. These systems may not have modern APIs or seamless connectors, leaving companies unable to feed critical data into new AI tools or automate workflows without costly rebuilds. Minicor’s proposition is to act as the bridge—helping businesses link cutting-edge AI applications to the systems they already rely on.
That may sound technical, but its implications are practical. If AI is to move beyond pilot projects and into daily enterprise operations, companies need a way to connect new intelligence to old infrastructure without ripping everything apart. Minicor is betting that this “last mile” of enterprise AI will become a critical layer of the AI economy.
The funding also carries a strong Nigerian diaspora story. Akinbile, a Nigerian software engineer, is now building infrastructure for global enterprises from San Francisco—evidence that Nigerian talent is not only participating in the AI revolution but shaping the plumbing that makes it usable at scale.
For Nigeria’s diaspora tech community, the signal is clear: the next big opportunities in AI may not only come from building flashy models, but from solving the unglamorous integration problems that determine whether those models ever reach real-world business operations. Minicor’s $3.8 million seed round suggests investors see value in that bridge.
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