Mati 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.
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ElevenLabsMati StaniszewskiMati is the cofounder of ElevenLabs, where he leads teams building AI that can communicate at human level. Before ElevenLabs, Mati worked at Palantir where he embedded with enterprises and governments to help them deploy new technology. He grew up in Poland, before moving to the UK to study Mathematics at Imperial College London.
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theorghqElevenLabs | The OrgResearch Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers.
KlarnaMati Staniszewski appointed to Klarna Group PLC Board of Directors | Klarna InternationalOfficial announcement supporting Mati’s Klarna board role and Palantir background.
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TechCrunchElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI | TechCrunchElevenLabs CEO argued at Web Summit Qatar that voice is the next interface for AI, as OpenAI, Google, and Apple push conversational systems into wearables, new hardware, and everyday interactions.
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Mati combines product deployment experience from Palantir with a mathematics background and firsthand exposure to the localization problem that inspired ElevenLabs. That mix of technical fluency, enterprise implementation experience, and consumer-market insight fits ElevenLabs’ mission to make digital content accessible in any language and voice.