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Company — ElevenLabs develops AI voice and audio technology for speech generation, dubbing, narration and conversational agents. Its products serve creators, developers and businesses deploying voice experiences.
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ElevenLabs develops AI voice and audio technology for speech generation, dubbing, narration and conversational agents. Its products serve creators, developers and businesses deploying voice experiences.
- Founded
- 2022
- Focus
- Speech generation; voice agents; dubbing; audio
- Business metric
- ARR, as reported by the company
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Launches Eleven Realtime
ElevenLabs introduces v1 Mini and v1 Max speech-to-speech models for voice agents, available through ElevenAgents and a WebSocket Realtime API.
Source: ElevenLabs ↗Exceeds $500M ARR
ElevenLabs says ARR passed $500 million in the first four months of 2026. The same update revises its disclosed year-end 2025 figure to $350 million; ARR is an annualized run rate.
Source: ElevenLabs ↗Raises $500M at an $11B valuation
The Series D supports voice agents and audio research. This financing announcement initially described year-end 2025 ARR as over $330 million; the later May disclosure gives $350 million.
Source: ElevenLabs ↗Raises $180M Series C
The round, co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth, values ElevenLabs at $3.3 billion and brings disclosed funding to $281 million.
Source: ElevenLabs ↗Raises $80M Series B
The company announces an $80 million round and unicorn status, alongside expansion of its voice and dubbing tools.
Source: ElevenLabs ↗Launches its voice platform
ElevenLabs brings its AI voice platform to the public, expanding access to synthesized speech.
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The company starts work on AI audio and multilingual voice technology.
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