ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and deployment company founded in 2022, best known for its voice AI — text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing and conversational voice agents across 70+ languages. Its platform spans ElevenAPI, ElevenCreative and ElevenAgents, and the company surpassed US$500 million in ARR within four years of founding. In 2026 ElevenLabs opened a Sydney office to lead its push into Australia and New Zealand, with local customers including Xero, Employment Hero, Heidi Health and Australia Post.
- Sector
- AI voice & audio generation
- Business model
- B2B2C SaaS (AI voice/audio)
- Founded
- 2022
- Founders
- Piotr Dąbkowski, Mateusz Staniszewski
- Headquarters
- New York, US
- Offices
- London, New York, Warsaw, San Francisco
- Latest round
- US$500M Series D, led by Sequoia Capital (Feb 2026)
- Total raised
- US$781M (2026)
Sources: elevenlabs.io, en.wikipedia.org
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Milestones
- 2022 Founded by Piotr Dąbkowski and Mateusz Staniszewski en.wikipedia.org
- June 2023 Raised US$19M Series A en.wikipedia.org
- Jan 2024 Raised US$80M Series B at US$1.1B valuation en.wikipedia.org
- Jan 2025 Raised US$180M Series C at US$3.3B valuation en.wikipedia.org
- Feb 2026 Raised US$500M Series D at US$11B valuation en.wikipedia.org
What others say about ElevenLabs
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you mentioned before around ElevenLabs and the impressive growth that they've seen.”
if you look at the best AI companies in the world, sure, they're growing in those segments, but majority of their growth is coming from huge enterprise contracts. Like ElevenLabs, majority of their revenue growth comes from enterprise.”
Liam MillwardCo-founder & CEO, Instant In The Blink Of AI · What It Takes to Build a $100M AI Compan… · 38:50 ▶ some podcasters now for their ad reads and other things, they're just using ElevenLabs voice and just to save them time.”
Thomas KellyCo-Founder and CEO, Heidi Health In The Blink Of AI · How to Build a Defensible AI Startup – W… · 22:57 ▶ my co-founder, um, Justin Hackney, who's a He was a kind of traditional filmmaker and creative who went on to work at ElevenLabs as their credit director.”
Xavier CollinsCo-Founder & CEO, Wonder Studios Diaspora NZ · S3 | E7 - Xavier Collins (CEO & Co-Found… · 3:10 ▶ Backed by
Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Sources: elevenlabs.io, cnbc.com
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