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Artificial intelligence musicmaking startup Mozart AI has scored a $6 million seed raise and confirmed topping 100,000 users.
London-based Mozart AI reached out with word of that “oversubscribed” round – and its aggressive expansion plans for the rest of 2026. As some will recall from this past July, when the company pulled down $730,000 (later upped to $1.1 million) in pre-seed capital, Mozart is technically the AI-powered “generative audio workstation” created by Arthos.
And while Arthos remains in place as the product’s developer, the business opted to attribute today’s round specifically to Mozart. That strategy doesn’t exactly come as a surprise in light of the above-mentioned userbase, which includes A$AP Rocky and Foster the People producer Frans Mernick as well as Ash Pournouri.
The latter individual provided a statement for the raise announcement, and both are presumably among Mozart’s “strategic angels.”
In any event, London venture firm Balderton led the $6 million seed round, which also drew support from Mercuri (likewise based in London), existing backer EWOR, Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz, Charles Ferguson, and Frame.io founder Emery Wells.
As for how the capital will be used, Mozart is preparing to add team members, build out its core platform, and move forward with a full-scale public release; its private beta only arrived last summer.
Apparently, quite a lot has changed for the company since then – referring in part to the current emphasis on features including “context-aware stem generation,” AI remixes, music videos, “synth and effect generation,” and more.
Additionally, though Mozart has from the outset underscored its commitment to authorized training, higher-ups today indicated that the platform “is built on top of commercially cleared third party generative models.”
And ElevenLabs, which raised a cool $500 million earlier this month, is said to be one of Mozart’s “primary model providers.” (Its chief focus is still enterprise agents and voice tools, but ElevenLabs launched Eleven Music in August 2025.)
On the other hand, some things are the same for Mozart, which is continuing to frame its varied offerings as suitable for non-musicians and release-minded professionals alike.
Co-founder and CEO Sundar Arvind touched on these points when addressing the $6 million seed raise.
“Far from replacing creativity,” Arvind communicated in part, “AI is levelling up that adrenaline-filled process through which musicians compose and discover the right sounds. Mozart AI is building powerful generative tools for the next era of collaborative music creation that will enable every artist – from casual creators to professional producers – to turn any idea into a release-ready song in minutes, with commercial rights.
“We’re building toward a world where a spark of creativity – a guitar riff, a melody, an idea – can be transformed into a fully produced, monetisable song with a professional music video, without requiring technical knowledge or fragmented tools,” he concluded.
