ElevenLabs
Overview
Per Wikipedia, founded in 2022 by Polish entrepreneurs Mati Staniszewski (CEO, ex-Palantir) and Piotr Dabkowski (CTO, ex-Google). Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Warsaw and San Francisco (per Wikipedia).
Products
- ElevenLabs platform - text-to-speech, voice cloning, AI dubbing, conversational agents, Scribe speech-to-text, Eleven Music (August 2025) and Eleven v3 (June 2025), per Wikipedia.
Funding timeline
Per Wikipedia (secondary); the Series D row is also described in the ElevenLabs blog post listed under Sources.
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01 | Pre-seed | USD 2M | - |
| 2023-06 | Series A | USD 19M | about USD 100M |
| 2024-01 | Series B | USD 80M | USD 1.1B |
| 2025-01 | Series C | USD 180M | USD 3.3B |
| 2026-02 | Series D | USD 500M (led by Sequoia, see sequoia-capital) | USD 11B |
Employee tender offers: September 2025 at USD 6.6B; September 2026 at USD 22B (Wikipedia).
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElevenLabs (secondary; fetched 2026-10-05)
- https://elevenlabs.io/blog/series-d (accessed 2026-09-30, via earlier vault note)
Open items
- The earlier draft named “Eleven v4”; Wikipedia lists v3 only, so v4 is not stated here.