Soverli, a Switzerland-based cybersecurity company focused on digital sovereignty and secure mobile infrastructure, has emerged from stealth with $2.6m.
The company has raised $2.6m in a pre-seed funding round led by Founderful, with participation from the ETH Zurich Foundation, Venture Kick and a number of senior figures from the global cybersecurity community.
Founded as a spin-out from ETH Zurich, Soverli has developed a patent-pending methodology that allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously and in isolation on a single smartphone. The approach enables a fully auditable and sovereign operating system to operate in parallel with Android, without requiring users to give up the functionality and convenience of a mainstream mobile experience. Users can switch between operating systems in milliseconds, effectively turning any commercial smartphone into sovereign digital infrastructure.
The technology is designed to address a growing concern among governments, enterprises and critical industries around reliance on opaque mobile operating systems. Smartphones have become central to daily life and mission-critical operations, yet remain largely unauditable black boxes. High-profile software failures and outages have underscored the systemic risks created when a single update or vulnerability can disable millions of devices simultaneously.
With the new funding, Soverli plans to expand its engineering team, extend support to additional smartphone models, strengthen integrations with mobile device management platforms and scale partnerships with smartphone manufacturers. The company also intends to focus on real-world deployments across public sector and enterprise environments where availability, security and continuity are essential.
Early demonstrations of the platform have shown how applications such as Signal can run inside Soverli’s sovereign operating system, dramatically reducing attack surfaces and remaining secure even if the primary operating system is compromised. Because the solution does not require hardware modifications, it can be deployed on existing commercial devices without limiting user capabilities.
Interest in the platform has grown rapidly as Europe accelerates efforts to strengthen digital sovereignty across cloud, AI and communications infrastructure. Soverli’s approach removes the traditional trade-off between security and usability that has limited adoption of secure mobile solutions to date, enabling sovereign-grade protection on everyday smartphones.
Soverli CEO Ivan Puddu said, “Availability is mission-critical, yet organizations still rely on operating systems they cannot control or audit. We built a fully-auditable smartphone sovereign layer that stays operational even when Android is compromised. It’s a paradigm shift: instead of hoping the OS never breaks, Soverli guarantees continuity if it does, without forcing users to give up the modern smartphone experience they expect.”
Founderful investor Antonia Albert added, “People deserve phones they can actually trust, and OEMs must deliver it. Soverli’s Swiss-made sovereign layer is the kind of breakthrough that can rewrite the rules of mobile security.”
The company’s first commercial focus is mission-critical communications, with public-sector pilots already underway involving emergency services and critical infrastructure operators. Beyond government use cases, enterprises are also exploring the technology for secure bring-your-own-device programmes that balance employee privacy with robust corporate security controls.
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