Sundar Arvind has taken investment raised by his second startup past 拢5 million – and he is only 23.
Yet that is only half of the story.
Arvind was a precocious tennis player who turned professional aged 12 and was ranked third in India and the top 1,000 in the world. He faced the likes of Jack Draper and Carlos Alcaraz across the net.
However repeated injuries led to enforced rest periods and so he turned his attention to music.
鈥淥ne day I just decided to become a music producer, so I swapped out my racquet for decks and became the first Indian to sign with Warner Bros Music,鈥� he wrote on Instagram.
He was aged just 14 when he won that recording contract with Spinnin鈥� Records and has since amassed millions of streams on Spotify.
After achieving four A* grades in his A-Levels, he took the advice of his father and studied computer science (artificial intelligence) with management at King鈥檚 College London, which included a year in industry.
He graduated with first class honours in 2024. That same year he began building his first startup Blitzo – an AI-powered delivery platform which quickly reached 拢1.8m in annual recurring revenue – with Arjun Khanna, who has represented India in global maths competitions and Harvard debates.聽
鈥淚鈥檝e always been the type of person to trust my gut. I found my place at King鈥檚 and London felt right,鈥� Arvind said.聽
鈥淭he only thing which didn鈥檛 click into place was the lack of convenience with UK delivery services鈥� my gut told me to create the convenience myself. So I did, and Blitzo was born.鈥�
Now the CEO is returning to music with Mozart AI, a startup founded with COO Khanna (pictured below, right) and CTO Pascual Merita Torres (below, left), a producer and DJ, classically trained pianist and AI researcher.聽
Described as a generative audio workstation, it aims to enhance workflows that lead to faster track completion times. Launched late last year, it already boasts 100,000+ users within two months and a million songs created.
Artists using the platform include Frans Mernick (ASAP Rocky鈥檚 producer), Ash Pournori (Avicci’s songwriter) and Kodak Black’s producer.
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Following a pre-seed round last year, Arvind has now raised 拢4.4m in an oversubscribed seed round led by Balderton Capital while it has also launched a mobile app. It takes total funding past 拢5m.
Mercuri (early stage MediaTech VC), EWOR, Kevin Hartz (Eventbrite founder), Charles Ferguson (Oscar-winning director of the Inside Job documentary) and Emery Wells (Frame.io founder) participated in the round, alongside existing investors and strategic angels from music, AI and creator technology.聽
The funding will be used to grow the team, expand Mozart AI鈥檚 core tech, and build on the viral success of its beta launch ahead of a full public release.
Mozart AI is built on top of commercially cleared third party generative models. ElevenLabs, one of the company’s primary model providers, is only trained on licensed materials, which allows the users of Mozart AI to freely use their music in commercial areas.聽
鈥淭he creative process has always been integral to music-making and to music鈥檚 role in shaping global culture,鈥� said Arvind. 鈥淔ar from replacing creativity, AI is levelling up that adrenaline-filled process through which musicians compose and discover the right sounds.聽
鈥淢ozart AI is building powerful generative tools for the next era of collaborative music creation that will enable every artist 鈥� from casual creators to professional producers 鈥� to turn any idea into a release-ready song in minutes, with commercial rights.聽
鈥淲e鈥檙e building toward a world where a spark of creativity 鈥� a guitar riff, a melody, an idea 鈥� can be transformed into a fully produced, monetisable song with a professional music video, without requiring technical knowledge or fragmented tools.鈥澛犅�
Umair Ali, Kodak Black and Lil Baby鈥檚 producer, said: 鈥淎s a creative technologist and producer, Mozart Studio is one of the first AI music tools I鈥檝e tried that actually accelerates ideation without flattening the creative process.聽
鈥淚t feels like an always-on sketchpad for hooks, melodies, and arrangement. It helps you get from a rough concept to something session-ready fast, then refine it like a real record.鈥�