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ElevenLabs

Private

AI Voice Synthesis

Founded 2022New York, NY~600 employees
Website

Valuation

$11B (Feb 2026, Series D)

Total Funding

$1B+

Revenue

$500M+ ARR (Apr 2026, added $100M net new ARR in Q1 2026 alone)

Profit Status

Growing rapidly toward profitability; eyeing IPO

Employees

~600

About ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs develops the most realistic AI voice synthesis technology available. Their models capture emotional nuance, accent, and prosody at a level indistinguishable from humans.

Company History

Founded 2022 in Warsaw. Unicorn Jan 2024. $180M Series C at $3.3B Jan 2025. Eleven v3 launched Feb 2026 (70+ languages, multi-character dialogue tags). Conversational AI 2.0 Jan 2026. $500M Series D (Sequoia led, NVIDIA, Salesforce, BlackRock) at $11B Feb 4, 2026. $500M+ ARR by Apr 2026. 41% of Fortune 500 use ElevenLabs. IPO target within 2-3 years.

AI Models & Benchmarks

Eleven v3
Audio

Most expressive TTS model. Emotions, pacing, emphasis, dynamic delivery. 32 languages.

May 2025
Eleven Flash v2.5
Audio

Ultra-low latency (75ms) for real-time voice agent applications.

2024
Eleven Multilingual v2
Audio

28 languages with human-level emotion and prosody. Industry-leading quality.

Sep 2023
Voice Design
Audio

Generate completely synthetic voices from text description.

2024

Products & Services

Text-to-Speech APIVoice CloningVoice LibraryProjectsDubbing

Company Details

Focus Area

AI Voice Synthesis

Stage

Private

Founded

2022

Headquarters

New York, NY

Employees

~600

Financial Overview

Total Funding

$1B+

Valuation

$11B (Feb 2026, Series D)

Revenue

$500M+ ARR (Apr 2026, added $100M net new ARR in Q1 2026 alone)

Profit Status

Growing rapidly toward profitability; eyeing IPO

Funding Rounds

  • Series A$19M
    Jun 2023a16z, Nat Friedman
  • Series B$80M
    Jan 2024a16z, ICONIQ Growth
  • Series C$180M
    Jan 2025a16z, ICONIQ
  • Series D$500M
    Feb 2026Sequoia Capital (lead), NVIDIA

Key Investors

Sequoia Capitala16zICONIQ GrowthNVIDIASalesforceBlackRockWellingtonDeutsche Telekom

Key People

  • Mati Staniszewski (CEO)
  • Piotr Dąbkowski (CTO)

Competitive Landscape

OpenAI TTSGoogle Cloud TTSMicrosoft Azure TTSMistral VoxtralSuno (music)

Tags

Audio
Voice
TTS
Cloning