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ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs builds real-time text-to-speech and voice-cloning models with support for 29 languages and ultra-low latency. Raised $80M Series B led by a16z in Jan 2024; product is embedded across video, gaming, and audiobook production pipelines worldwide.

ElevenLabs is the breakout TTS leader with $1.1B valuation, 1M+ users, and celebrity/publisher partnerships defining the commercial voice-cloning category.

elevenlabs.io TTS / Voice Synthesis

United Statesprivate

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Total raised

$781M

last round series d

Headcount

501-1k

approximate · public range

Headquarters

New York

United States

Founded

2022

4 years active

Status

Private

TTS / Voice Synthesis

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Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Feb 4, 2026	Series D	$500M	$11B	Sequoia Capital
Jan 30, 2025	Series C	$180M	$3.3B

AI bull / bear

Bull case

ElevenLabs is the undisputed breakout winner in commercial voice synthesis, with 1M+ users and a $1.1B valuation backed by a16z's $80M Series B. Its real-time TTS and voice-cloning engine spans 29 languages with ultra-low latency, making it the default layer inside video, gaming, and audiobook production pipelines — customers who embed ElevenLabs face high switching costs. The company is expanding its product surface area beyond TTS: the new text-to-sound-effects generator gives free users 50 monthly SFX, lowering the barrier to try the platform and creating an upsell funnel to paid tiers. Celebrity and publisher partnerships have legitimized commercial voice cloning at scale, turning what was a fringe technology into a standard production tool. With deep vertical integrations and a widening moat in latency, language coverage, and tooling, ElevenLabs is on a trajectory to own the entire spoken-audio creation stack.

Bear case

ElevenLabs faces existential regulatory and reputational risk as voice cloning draws scrutiny around deepfakes, consent, and fraud. Lawmakers in the EU and US are actively crafting rules that could restrict or require licensing for synthetic voice generation, which would directly cap ElevenLabs' total addressable market. Meanwhile, deep-pocketed hyperscalers — Google, Microsoft, Amazon — are embedding comparable TTS into their cloud ecosystems for free or near-free, commoditizing the core product. Open-source models like Bark and Coqui are closing the quality gap rapidly, eroding ElevenLabs' differentiation on fidelity and latency. The new sound-effects tool, while clever, adds little revenue heft and signals the company is hunting for adjacent use cases because the core voice-cloning market may be smaller than the $1.1B valuation assumes. If regulation tightens or big tech bundles harder, ElevenLabs' premium pricing becomes hard to defend.

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ElevenLabs

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Mati Staniszewski

Piotr Dabkowski

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ElevenLabs hit with fresh lawsuit over use of voices by Pulitzer and Emmy-winning journalists

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Eleven v3 (Text-to-Speech)

Voice Cloning

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