Mirelo, a Berlin startup, just closed a $41 million seed round from Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz to build AI models that generate sound effects for videos. The company was founded by CJ Simon-Gabriel and Florian Wenzel, who both did AI research at Amazon Web Services Labs before launching the startup in 2023.
The team claims their tech can pump out matching audio for video content in seconds, which beats the traditional method of digging through stock libraries for hours. They recently dropped Mirelo SFX v1.5, and they say it uses way less computing power than typical large language models while delivering better quality than competitors.
Simon-Gabriel wants Mirelo to become the audio layer for everything visual, from gaming to social media to films. Index partner Georgia Stevenson says sound gets overlooked in video production, but it actually determines whether content resonates with audiences.
The team claims their tech can pump out matching audio for video content in seconds, which beats the traditional method of digging through stock libraries for hours. They recently dropped Mirelo SFX v1.5, and they say it uses way less computing power than typical large language models while delivering better quality than competitors.
Simon-Gabriel wants Mirelo to become the audio layer for everything visual, from gaming to social media to films. Index partner Georgia Stevenson says sound gets overlooked in video production, but it actually determines whether content resonates with audiences.
