16.12.2025 / Start-up News

Deal: Wenger Vieli advised Soverli on its USD 2.6m pre-seed financing round

Wenger Vieli advised Soverli, an ETH Zurich spin-off and Zurich-based cybersecurity company, on all Swiss legal aspects in connection with its USD 2.6 million pre-seed financing round. The round was led by Founderful, with participation from the ETH Zurich Foundation, Venture Kick, and leading figures in the cybersecurity sector.

Soverli develops an innovative smartphone architecture that creates isolated and secure areas on a single device in order to protect critical communication, sensitive data, and applications for enterprises and public authorities, without restricting normal smartphone functionality. The technology enables secure use of ordinary commercial smartphones while maintaining full usability.

With this financing, Soverli will expand its engineering team, extend support to additional smartphone models, deepen integrations with mobile device management systems, and scale partnerships with smartphone manufacturers.

The team included Michael Baier (Partner, Corporate/M&A), Dominique Mattmann (Senior Associate, Corporate/M&A) and Andrea Frey (Associate, Corporate/M&A).