Soverli has received CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to drive digital sovereignty by reshaping smartphone security
24.09.2025
ETH spin-off Soverli has secured CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to bring its next-generation smartphone security architecture to market. The company addresses one of the most pressing challenges for organizations: reconciling high-level smartphone security with seamless usability while strengthening digital sovereignty.
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Organizations face difficult trade-offs when securing smartphones used for business data. Existing solutions often restrict apps, block communication, or require employees to carry separate devices—leading to frustration and risky workarounds. At the same time, enterprises lack control over the software that manages sensitive data, relying on third-party providers they may not fully trust.
Soverli offers a novel software architecture, licensed for use on commercial smartphones, that delivers full functionality together with security levels previously considered impractical. Even if the operating system is compromised, users remain in control and enterprises can reliably protect their mobile workforce. The solution gives organizations full control over the software stack accessing their data—without third-party code—while keeping personal use private and fully functional on a separate part of the device.
Soverli will use the CHF 150,000 funding from Venture Kick to further drive business development and accelerate customer pilots in security-sensitive industries, opening new possibilities for rapid market entry.
Led by Dr. Ivan Puddu (Co-Founder & CEO) and Dr. Moritz Schneider (Co-Founder & CTO), the ICT startup builds on four years of R&D at ETH Zurich. The team unites world-class expertise in system security with a clear commercialization path, targeting a beachhead market of 7 million devices as it prepares for global rollout.
“Venture Kick has been a great help in transforming our research into a business,” says Dr. Ivan Puddu, CEO of Soverli. “Beyond the funding, the program focused us in the right direction, gave us guidance, and the visibility we needed to prepare for market entry.”
CEO Ivan Puddu and CTO Moritz Schneider
Soverli offers a novel software architecture, licensed for use on commercial smartphones, that delivers full functionality together with security levels previously considered impractical. Even if the operating system is compromised, users remain in control and enterprises can reliably protect their mobile workforce. The solution gives organizations full control over the software stack accessing their data—without third-party code—while keeping personal use private and fully functional on a separate part of the device.
Soverli will use the CHF 150,000 funding from Venture Kick to further drive business development and accelerate customer pilots in security-sensitive industries, opening new possibilities for rapid market entry.
Led by Dr. Ivan Puddu (Co-Founder & CEO) and Dr. Moritz Schneider (Co-Founder & CTO), the ICT startup builds on four years of R&D at ETH Zurich. The team unites world-class expertise in system security with a clear commercialization path, targeting a beachhead market of 7 million devices as it prepares for global rollout.
“Venture Kick has been a great help in transforming our research into a business,” says Dr. Ivan Puddu, CEO of Soverli. “Beyond the funding, the program focused us in the right direction, gave us guidance, and the visibility we needed to prepare for market entry.”
CEO Ivan Puddu and CTO Moritz Schneider