Published: February 11, 2026 at 1:23 pm
Sundar Arvind has taken investment raised by his second startup past £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.
“One 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,” he wrote on Instagram.
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’s 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 £1.8m in annual recurring revenue – with Arjun Khanna, who has represented India in global maths competitions and Harvard debates.
Now the CEO is returning to music with Mozart AI, a startup founded with COO Khanna and CTO Pascual Merita Torres, a producer and DJ, classically trained pianist and AI researcher.