ElevenLabs
Worth-Joining Index · Scorecard
v2.1 ALPHA · 2026-08Career Score
—/100
Coverage
65%
Verified
25%
Stage cohort
Late
Vibe Check
🎪 community voting coming soon
Latest valuation
$11B (Series D, 2026-02)
Traction · Key numbers
Funding
Rounds
2
Valuation pace
$3.3B
$500M
Series D · 2026-02 · valuation $11B post (Series D, 2026-02) · led by Sequoia Capital
With: a16z, ICONIQ Growth, Nvidia · More than 3x the previous round's valuation
$180M
Series C · 2025-01 · valuation $3.3B post · led by a16z, ICONIQ Growth
With: NEA, World Innovation Lab, Valor, Endeavor Catalyst Fund, Lunate
▸Valuation rose ~3.3x in 13 months ($3.3B to $11B); Sequoia and Nvidia both piling in on the same round signals strategic capital, not just financial bets, on voice as infrastructure
▸~33x revenue multiple on ~$330M ARR against an $11B valuation is classic frontier-AI infra pricing — the implicit risk is that revenue growth must keep outrunning the valuation's expectations
▸Nvidia's strategic participation hints at deepening ties between voice models and the compute/chip ecosystem, beyond a pure financial stake
Founders
Mati Staniszewski CEO
Former Palantir deployment strategist, co-founded the company with Dąbkowski
Piotr Dąbkowski CTO
Former Google engineer
Reality · Working here
Signals & Risks
Editorial ✎
Good fit for
· Voice/audio ML researchers and engineers — the company sits at the frontier of TTS/voice cloning with access to some of the largest voice datasets and feedback loops in the field
· Product managers who want to balance consumer and enterprise tracks — ElevenLabs serves dubbing studios, podcasters, and enterprise support simultaneously, a good testing ground for product judgment
· Commercial/sales talent comfortable with valuation pressure — the company needs to scale $330M ARR fast enough to justify an $11B mark, so performance expectations are intense
Not for
· People who want a steady, predictable pace — valuation and fundraising cadence are accelerating fast, so team and priorities will shift quickly
· Anyone uncomfortable with 'valuation ahead of revenue' as a strategy — if you think a 33x revenue multiple is unsustainable, that instinct will keep clashing with the culture here
Ask in the interview
1. How fast are OpenAI and Google eating into your moat in voice/multimodal? Is your differentiation really model quality, or is it ecosystem positioning?
2. Going from $330M ARR to an $11B valuation — what's the internal revenue growth target for the next 12-18 months, and what happens if you miss it?
3. Beyond capital, what concrete compute or channel partnerships has Nvidia's strategic investment actually brought?
Data changelog
Community corrections → editorial review → applied, fully on the record
data as of 2026-02 · Source: ElevenLabs company blog ↗
data as of 2025-12 · Source: ElevenLabs company blog / TechCrunch ↗
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