Kellerhals Carrard with Mosaic SoC on its USD 3.8 million pre-seed financing round
Your AR glasses have six cameras and four sensors - but they still can't truly understand the world around them.
That's not a software problem — it's a chip problem. The processors running today's smart glasses were designed for phones and servers, not for real-time spatial awareness, resulting in devices packed with sensors that either drain the battery in an hour or run too hot to wear.
Mosaic SoC is building the missing chip. The Zurich-based ETH spinoff designs dedicated perception processors — purpose-built silicon that takes in visual and positional sensor data and turns it into real-time spatial understanding, without touching the main processor and without killing the battery. One job, done properly, at the hardware level.
Founded by Moritz Scherer and Alfio Di Mauro, the team identified a gap between what device makers needed and what existing chips could actually deliver — and decided to build the missing piece themselves, rather than relying on technology licensed from third parties. Mosaic SoC has now raised USD 3.8 million in a pre-seed round led by Founderful, with participation from Kick Foundation. The company has already generated revenue through non-recurring engineering contracts with manufacturing partners and is now designing a generic product it can sell to multiple manufacturers, providing a full application layer that firms would build on top of.
Kellerhals Carrard advised Mosaic SoC on all legal aspects of this transaction.
The Kellerhals Carrard Core Team:
- Umberto Milano (Lead, Partner, Corporate / VC)
- Marine Jorio (Associate, Corporate / VC)
- Klara Weismann (Legal Advisor, Corporate / VC)
- Lisa Schmid (Paralegal, Corporate/VC)
Congratulations to Moritz Scherer and Alfio Di Mauro on this milestone — and to the team at Founderful and Kick Foundation for backing the hardware layer that the next generation of wearables is going to need.