Seed round of USD 41 million for acoustics start-up Mirelo AI

Tübin­gen — The Tübin­­gen-based audio start-up Mirelo AI has raised 41 million US dollars in a seed round. The round was jointly led by renow­ned inves­tors Index Ventures and Andre­es­sen Horo­witz (a16z). Other inves­tors include Atlantic.vc and Triple­Point Capi­tal. YPOG provi­ded compre­hen­sive legal advice to Mirelo AI on the finan­cing round. 

Mirelo AI was foun­ded in Tübin­gen in 2023 and deve­lops AI models for the auto­ma­ted gene­ra­tion of sound effects for moving image appli­ca­ti­ons. The tech­no­logy aims to simplify and rede­fine the crea­tion of sounds for adver­ti­sing, games and film produc­tions. Sound effects can be gene­ra­ted, edited and auto­ma­ti­cally synchro­ni­zed on the basis of video mate­rial. The basic tech­no­logy is conside­red promi­sing for appli­ca­ti­ons in the crea­tive and media industry. 

Mirelo AI intends to use the finan­cing to grow faster, in parti­cu­lar to prepare for market entry, drive forward the further deve­lo­p­ment of its models and expand the team. In addi­tion to inter­na­tio­nal venture capi­tal inves­tors, the company is supported by renow­ned perso­na­li­ties from rese­arch and industry. 

Mirelo AI announ­ces: “Our over­ar­ching mission is to become the audio plat­form for all visual content, inclu­ding videos, games, social media and movies. We are now looking for people who want to join us in shaping this future — a future where Mirelo revo­lu­tio­ni­zes the way ever­yone works with sound and helps bring more emotion and impact to audio­vi­sual content worldwide.” 

“Mirelo AI combi­nes a highly specia­li­zed AI appli­ca­tion with a scien­ti­fic foun­da­tion. The finan­cing round crea­tes a strong basis for further scaling the tech­no­logy and taking the next growth step,” says Dr. Adrian Haase, Part­ner at YPOG. 

About Mirelo AI

Mirelo AI consists of passio­nate AI rese­ar­chers, product experts and musi­ci­ans with expe­ri­ence at acade­mic and indus­trial market leaders such as Google Brain, Amazon, Meta FAIR, Disney, ETH Zurich, Max Planck Insti­tu­tes, etc. Mirelo AI deve­lops ever­y­thing from the basic AI model to the final product. It also allows the company to build world-class exper­tise in AI models at a frac­tion of the cost of LLM compa­nies. — www.mirelo.ai

Advi­sor Mirela AI: YPOG 

Dr. Adrian Haase (Lead, Tran­sac­tions), Part­ner, Hamburg
Matthias Kres­ser (Tran­sac­tions), Part­ner, Berlin
Jan Stamm­ler (Tran­sac­tions), Asso­ciate, Berlin

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