Mozart AI Raises £4.5M Seed Led by Balderton Capital to Bring Generative AI to Music Creation

February 11, 2026

London-based Mozart AI has raised £4.5 million (approximately $6 million) in an oversubscribed seed round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Mercuri, EWOR, and prominent angels including Eventbrite founder Kevin Hartz, Oscar-winning director Charles Ferguson, and Frame.io founder Emery Wells. The funding follows a $1.1 million pre-seed raised in mid-2025, bringing total capital to more than $7 million. Mozart AI will use the proceeds to expand its team from ten to twenty-five people, accelerate core technology development, and prepare for a full public launch after a viral beta period.

The Digital Audio Workstation has been the central tool of professional music production since the 1990s, but the software category has largely remained inaccessible to casual creators and technically demanding for professionals. Meanwhile, AI-generated music tools have proliferated rapidly — yet many have faced backlash from artists concerned about copyright ownership and creative displacement. The industry lacks a creator-first platform that integrates generative AI meaningfully without stripping artists of control over their work.

Mozart AI's Generative Audio Workstation supports both ground-up music creation with AI assistance and fully agentic, prompt-driven music generation. The platform provides context-aware stem generation, real-time MIDI progressions and drum suggestions, synth and effects generation, and the ability to riff and remix sounds into new styles — while automatically handling time-consuming tasks like quantisation and time stretching. Crucially, artists retain full copyright over their output. The platform is built on commercially cleared third-party generative models, including those from ElevenLabs, trained exclusively on licensed material. Users can also generate music videos and publish directly to social platforms within the same environment.

Since launching in beta in September 2025, Mozart AI has attracted over 100,000 artists in its first two months and has seen more than one million songs created on the platform. Producers associated with A$AP Rocky, Avicii, and Kodak Black have used the tool, and some tracks produced on the platform have surpassed 10 million streams on Spotify. The company was founded in 2025 and is part of Arthos, which builds AI tools designed to embed artists' style and intention into AI-assisted workflows. CEO Sundar Arvind signed to Spinnin' Records at 14 and previously co-founded AI delivery startup Blitzo; CTO Pascual Merita Torres is a classically trained pianist, producer, and AI researcher from the University of Edinburgh.

Balderton Capital General Partner Daniel Waterhouse led the investment, emphasising that the firms backing AI music tools must work with artists rather than against them. Balderton has previously backed Kobalt Music Group and ROLI, giving it deep roots in the music technology sector. The oversubscribed round reflects wider market conviction that the next generation of creative tools will be built by musicians and technologists in concert — and that Mozart AI's early growth metrics and artist-first philosophy position it to define that category.

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