Pascual Merita, MSc Artificial Intelligence graduate from the School of Informatics, The Univeristy of Edinburgh, co‑founder and CTO of Mozart AI, has helped secure a $6 million seed round for the fast‑growing music technology startup. The funding round, announced on 11 February 2026 and led by Balderton Capital, brings the company’s total investment to more than $7 million following a $1.1 million pre‑seed raised last year. Mozart founders CEO Sundar Arvind (seated), CCO Arjun Khanna, and Pascual Merita Torres CTO Mozart AI, founded in 2025 and based in London, is developing what it calls a “Generative Audio Workstation”—a new kind of digital audio environment that blends traditional music production with state‑of‑the‑art AI assistance. The platform has already seen rapid uptake: over 100,000 users in two months and more than one million songs created. This announcement was first covered in Forbes, which published an in‑depth profile of the company and its founders A Creator‑First Approach to AI Music Production Mozart AI positions itself not as a text‑to‑song generator but as a full production environment built to support human musicians. The platform allows creators to work with stems, instruments, and individual notes, while the system handles time‑consuming production tasks such as quantisation, time stretching, and sound design. Far from replacing creativity, AI is levelling up that adrenaline‑filled process through which musicians compose and discover the right sounds.What we realised was the journey itself was causing friction. It was just too complex. Sundar Arvind CEO and co‑founder This insight led the team to redesign the workflow to support both rapid idea generation (“Vibe Sessions”) and deeper, more technical production (“Studio Sessions”). Built by Musicians, Technologists and Informatics Talent Merita, who completed his MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Informatics, serves as Mozart AI’s Chief Technology Officer. During his degree, he researched Vision Transformer efficiency via token pooling techniques, supervised by Edoardo Ponti and Piotr Nawrot, achieving “up to 1.4x faster inference times while maintaining comparable accuracy.”He also co‑founded and served as President of Edinburgh AI, the University’s AI society, which has grown to more than 400 members and hosts talks from leading organisations such as DeepMind.Before Mozart AI, Merita worked as an AI Research Engineer at Huawei, focusing on Retrieval‑Augmented Generation under the supervision of Pavlos Vougiouklis and Jeff Pan.Mozart AI’s founding team combines music industry experience, AI research, and entrepreneurial backgrounds:Sundar Arvind (CEO) – former professional tennis player and Spinnin’ Records‑signed musicianArjun Khanna (COO) – mathematician and debater with international honoursPascual Merita (CTO) – producer, DJ, classically trained pianist, and Informatics MSc graduate Looking ahead Following its viral beta and early traction—including artists releasing tracks with more than 10 million Spotify streams—the company plans to expand its team from 10 to 25 in 2026, develop collaboration and distribution tools, and grow its ecosystem of AI‑assisted creative features. Related links Link to Mozart AI website Publication date 23 Feb, 2026
