(front row, l to r) Arthos co-founders Arjun Khanna, Immanuel Rajadurai, and Pascual Merita Torres, with CEO Sundar Arvind in the back row. The music AI startup has revealed a seed raise and its first product, Mozart AI. Photo Credit: Arthos
Music AI startup Arthos has announced a $730,000 raise and the upcoming launch of its first product, a digital audio workstation (DAW) called Mozart AI.
London-based Arthos reached out today with word of the pre-seed funding and the debuting DAW. Co-founded and led by Sundar Arvind, the startup says it’s “on a mission to 10x every artist” with “ethical AI.”
Regarding the ethical descriptor’s precise meaning here, Arthos is committed to “never training on artist data” and doesn’t generate “complete songs,” according to the text. Keeping as much in mind, Mozart AI is being billed not as a straight music-generation model, but as a solution developed to enhance the creative process.
(Technically, Mozart AI refers to the DAW itself, with the virtual co-producer therein dubbed Mozart.)
“Most AI music tools try to replace the artist,” Mozart AI’s FAQ section indicates in part. “We amplify them. Our focus is on the hybrid musician—someone with complete command over their vision and zero creative friction. We handle the 80% of production that’s tedious so artists can focus on the 20% that makes their music uniquely theirs.”
Nevertheless, the same section acknowledges that the product, featuring support for both voice and text prompts, “is designed to be accessible to complete beginners while powerful enough for veteran producers.”
And in terms of its core capabilities, Mozart AI is said “to provide suggestions, iterations, and extensions for melodies, chords, drums, vocals, mixing and more.” A (human-to-human) collaboration option is forthcoming, and higher-ups are finalizing the product’s pricing model, per the relevant site.
Availability-wise, Mozart AI is currently in private beta, with a waitlist in place ahead of a planned July 16th public-beta launch. (According to Forbes, approximately 25,000 prospective users are currently on this waitlist.)
“We’re building the next era of music creation software, where the role of the musician is creative insight and direction, while the AI Co-Producer handles all technical details,” summed up Arvind. “Mozart AI was created to unlock creativity at the speed of inspiration, where every idea becomes a professional grade song in minutes.”
Besides the former Blitzo co-head Arvind (who previously signed with Spinnin’ Records), Arthos counts as co-founders Arjun Khanna (who’s also COO), Pascual Merita Torres (formerly with Huawei), and Immanuel Rajadurai.
Wrapping with a closer look at the initially highlighted funding, Arthos has drawn capital from EWOR (where Arvind is a fellow), two-year-old New Renaissance Ventures, Last.fm co-founder Stefan Glaenzer, Munich’s Atlantis Ventures, and McMakler founder Felix Jahn.
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