Mozart AI: Putting Artists Back at the Centre of AI Music Creation

Mozart AI co-founders Arjun Khanna, Sundar Arvind and Pascual Merita Torres

We’re excited to share that Mercuri has invested in Mozart AI’s $6m Seed round, led by Balderton Capital. The round, which also saw investment from EWOR, Kevin Hartz, Charles Ferguson, Davidovs Venture Collective, and a group of strategic angels across music, AI, and creator technology, follows strong early momentum and marks an important step in how AI-native tools are reshaping the creative process for musicians.

What Mozart AI is building

 Mozart AI is building an AI-native music creation platform that supports both hands-on composition and more prompt-driven, agentic workflows. The product helps users move from idea to finished track faster by assisting with technically complex and time-consuming tasks. For example, the platform supports music creation from the ground up, generating context-aware stems and melodies, facilitating sound design and complex tasks such as quantisation and time stretching, allowing creators to experiment, remix, and iterate fluidly and rapidly. Beyond audio, the product also supports visual creation to help musicians share their work across social platforms.
Importantly, the product keeps the artist at the centre of the process with firm creative control, and positions AI as an assistive instrument, not a substitute for creativity. And, Mozart AI is built on commercially licensed AI models, enabling creators to confidently release and monetise their work. 
The result is a tool that on the one hand lowers the barrier to entry for music making and on the other remains powerful enough for experienced producers to refine tracks for release.

Why Mercuri invested in Mozart AI

1. A mission aligned with the future of MediaTech
Mozart AI is built around a simple but powerful idea: anyone who listens to music or plays an instrument should be able to create music easily. This mission goes straight to the heart of how AI is transforming content creation, by expanding who gets to participate and how, not by replacing creators. As a fund investing across the MediaTech value chain, we see this as a defining theme of the next generation of creative tools.

2. A talented, complementary, and mission-driven team
The founding team combines technical depth, commercial experience, and lived experience as music creators. CEO and co-founder Sundar Arvind is a former professional musician, signed to Spinnin’ Records at 14, who later founded an AI delivery startup. COO Arjun Khanna brings strong analytical and operational grounding, while CTO Pascual Merita Torres combines classical music training with AI research. What stood out to us is not just individual talent, but how complementary the team is and how deeply aligned they are around making music creation more accessible to non-professionals. 

3. Building AI the right way
Mozart AI has taken a clear, principled stance on how AI should be used in music. The product is designed with a creator-first mindset, uses licensed data, and keeps artists in control of their output and rights. We believe this approach is not only ethically sound, but strategically essential for building durable, trusted creative platforms.

4. Exceptional early traction
The company has seen rapid organic adoption, strong engagement, and fast product iteration in a short period of time. Since launching its beta in September, the platform has attracted over 100,000 users in two months, driven almost entirely by organic, viral growth. Artists using the platform include producers behind A$AP Rocky, Avicii, Kodak Black, and others. Some users are already releasing tracks made with Mozart AI that have reached 10M+ streams on Spotify. Mozart AI is clearly solving a real problem for a broad and growing audience.

Strong fit with Mercuri thesis

At Mercuri, we invest early in companies that are redefining MediaTech through AI, across creation, distribution, consumption and monetisation. We look for teams building AI-native products and a clear point of view on how humans and machines should collaborate.
Mozart AI exemplifies this thesis: infrastructure that uses AI to remove friction, amplify creativity, and unlock new creative participation, without losing sight of the artist nor their authorship. 
We’re excited to support the team as they scale the platform, grow the community, and help shape a new era of human-led, AI-powered music creation. 🎶