ElevenLabs
AI audio and voice technology company building text-to-speech, voice generation, and conversational audio products.
Who is building this.
Mati StaniszewskiCo-founder & CEOMati Staniszewski is the co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, a voice AI research and product company building tools for text-to-speech, dubbing, voice agents, and AI-generated audio. Raised in Poland, he co-founded ElevenLabs with childhood friend Piotr Dąbkowski in 2022 after seeing an opportunity to make audio content more natural, multilingual, and accessible. Before ElevenLabs, Mati worked as a Deployment Strategist at Palantir and held product roles at BlackRock and Opera Software. He studied mathematics at Imperial College London and joined Klarna Group PLC’s board of directors in 2025.
Piotr DąbkowskiCo-founder, ResearchPiotr Dąbkowski is the co-founder and CTO / research leader of ElevenLabs, the AI audio company building text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, speech-to-text, and conversational audio products. At ElevenLabs, he leads research and engineering teams developing advanced AI audio models. Before co-founding the company, Piotr worked on machine learning at Google and studied for an MPhil at the University of Cambridge, where he published AI research at NeurIPS. He co-founded ElevenLabs with fellow Polish founder Mati Staniszewski after seeing how poor dubbing limited access to global media.
Cumulative raised across 5 rounds, totaling $781M.
Fundraising history.
Pre-Seed — $2M
Jan 2023ElevenLabs announced a $2M pre-seed alongside the launch of its beta AI speech platform.
Led by Credo Ventures · with Concept Ventures
Source ↗Series A — $19M
Jun 2023Series A to accelerate voice AI research and product deployment.
Led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Andreessen Horowitz · with Credo Ventures, Concept Ventures, SV Angel, Guillermo Rauch
Source ↗Series B — $80M
Jan 2024Series B to strengthen ElevenLabs’ position in voice AI research and product development.
Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross · with Sequoia Capital, Smash Capital, SV Angel, BroadLight Capital +1
Source ↗Series C — $180M
Jan 2025$3.3B post-money
Series C at a $3.3B post-money valuation.
Led by Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth · with NEA, World Innovation Lab, Valor, Endeavor Catalyst Fund +1
Source ↗Series D — $500M
Feb 2026$11B
Reported new funding round led by Sequoia Capital at an $11B valuation.
Led by Sequoia Capital · with Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth
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AI audio and voice technology company building text-to-speech, voice generation, and conversational audio products.
AI audio and voice technology company building text-to-speech, voice generation, and conversational audio products.
Press
ElevenLabsElevenLabs Raises $2M and Announces AI Speech PlatformElevenLabs' $2M pre-seed funding supports the launch of our Beta platform, enabling creators to narrate long-form content with lifelike AI voices.
ElevenLabsElevenLabs Releases New AI Products and Raises $80M Series BElevenLabs has raised an $80m Series B round, as well as launching a wide range of new voice AI products.
TechCrunchElevenLabs, the hot AI audio startup, confirms $180M in Series C funding at a $3.3B valuation | TechCrunchElevenLabs, one of the more popular startups working in the field of AI audio, said Thursday that it has raised a Series C round of $180 million, valuing
TechCrunchElevenLabs raises $500M from Sequoia at an $11 billion valuation | TechCrunchElevenLabs' valuation has raised more than three times in the last 12 months.
elevenlabs.ioElevenLabs Launches New Generative Voice AI Products and Announces $19m Series A RoundSupports Series A amount, investors, founders, registered-user traction, product scope, and London/New York presence.
m.investing.comVoice AI startup ElevenLabs closes new funding round at $3.3 billion valuationSupports Series C valuation and additional Series C investor participation.
help.elevenlabs.ioWhat is ElevenLabs?Supports company mission/background around voice dubbing and text-to-speech products.