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Mosaic SoC announces $3.8 million pre-seed round

ETH Zürich spinoff Mosaic SoC has announced that it has successfully raised $3.8 million in a pre-seed round led by Founderful, with participation from Kick Foundation.

Founded by Alfio Di Mauro and Moritz Scherer, who studied in the Digital Circuits and Systems Group of HiPEAC members Luca Benini and Frank K. Gurkaynak in ETH Zürich’s Integrated Systems Laboratory, Mosaic SoC designs specialized chips for real-time perception on a low power budget. According to the company’s announcement, this enables spatial intelligence in wearable form factors such as augmented reality (AR) glasses.

‘Spatial intelligence shouldn’t require an application-class processor and a GPU,’ said Alfio Di Mauro, the chief executive of Mosaic SoC. ‘We built Mosaic SoC to deliver real-time perception at a fraction of the energy, so battery-powered devices can understand their environment without compromising form factor.’

According to Mosaic SoC, their chip lets a device build a local map of its surroundings and the objects within them, enabling features like recalling where an item was last seen or generating a floorplan on the fly. In smartphones, Mosaic SoC can act as a co-processor for the front camera, running always-on tracking and classification at a fraction of the power. That means a device can trigger recording only when a specific event occurs or a certain object appears, delivering continuous awareness without draining the battery.

Mosaic SoC co-founders Alfio Di Mauro and Moritz Scherer


Summary

Mosaic SoC, an ETH Zürich spinoff, has raised $3.8 million in pre-seed funding for its specialized chips that enable low-power, real-time perception in devices like AR glasses and smartphones.