Soverli Raises $2.6 Million for Secure Smartphone OS

The sovereign smartphone OS runs along Android or iOS, allowing users to switch between secure, isolated environments.

Cybersecurity startup Soverli on Monday announced raising $2.6 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Founderful, with additional support from ETH Zurich Foundation, Venture Kick, and angel investors.

An ETH Zurich spin-off, Zurich, Switzerland-based Soverli is building a sovereign smartphone platform focused on user security.

The operating system can run alongside Android or iOS on standard mobile phones, independent and isolated from them.

By enabling multiple isolated OSes to run on the same device simultaneously, Soverli provides users with both the experience of their mobile platform of choice, and the security benefits of the sovereign OS.

Users can switch to the sovereign OS with the press of a button, benefiting from increased security even if the Android/iOS platform is malicious or has been infected with malware or spyware.

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