AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D led by Sequoia at an $11B valuation, taking its total funding to nearly $800M, and reports $330M in 2025 ARR
The startup is increasingly joining with creative stars and expanding its work with business customers
A staff liquidity program at a $6.6B valuation had already established a substantially higher private-market benchmark. This financing moves the company’s valuation further upward while it pursues both creative partnerships and business customers.
First-order effects
ElevenLabs gains $500M in new financing, giving it additional capacity to support expansion across creator-facing partnerships and business sales.
Sequoia’s lead investment and the reported $11B valuation strengthen ElevenLabs’ position with prospective customers, partners, employees, and investors; the company also has $330M in reported 2025 ARR to support its growth narrative.
Second-order effects
Other AI-audio providers will face a better-capitalized competitor in enterprise selling and creative-industry partnerships, increasing the premium on differentiated voice products and distribution.
The round gives creators and business buyers another signal that synthetic voice is becoming a more established software category, while increasing pressure for clear commercial terms around voice use and partnerships.
Third-order effects
If revenue growth and late-stage funding continue to reinforce each other, AI voice could consolidate around a smaller group of well-funded platforms able to invest in product quality, customer acquisition, and rights-sensitive commercial relationships.
The broader test is whether high private valuations in generative-media software translate into durable business adoption, rather than remaining driven primarily by investor appetite for AI growth.
The trend: This is part of AI content commercialization, in which generative-media vendors are using enterprise revenue and creator distribution to turn specialized models into scaled software businesses.
Congratulations to the team at @elevenlabsio - founded in London and grown within the UK's tech ecosystem. This is a powerful reminder of what the UK enables: a world‑class environment where world-class talent can build innovative global companies.
Today, @elevenlabsio is announcing a $500M Series D at an $11B valuation, led by Sequoia, with a16z quadrupling down and ICONIQ tripling down. It reflects the trust of customers and partners building at the frontier alongside us - and gives us momentum to ship even faster. [video…
.@elevenlabsio is building infrastructure for how humans and AI will communicate. What started as breakthrough text-to-speech has expanded to speech-to-text, sound effects, dubbing, music, and conversation. Founded by @matiii and @dabkowski_piotr, ElevenLabs has grown from [video…
Congrats to @elevenlabs on the Series D! Genuinely rare to see a team nail both consumer AND enterprise from day one. They built a passionate prosumer base, then seamlessly moved upmarket. What's impressive is watching founders who are deep in the research and can translate
The future of AI interaction is here! ElevenLabs' $500M raise means big things for ElevenAgents, bringing reliable voice and chat agents to enterprises. Impressive growth with over $330M ARR in 2025.
Sequoia led the ElevenLabs Series D and I recently joined their board. It was ~2.5 years ago when we @sequoia first invested in @elevenlabsio. It was clear then it was an outlier company with brilliant people doing pioneering research, but there were a million questions (1/3)
The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with Andrew Reed joining our board. a16z quadrupled down and ICONIQ tripled down. New investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Evantic Capital, BOND, alongside continued support from existing partners.
ElevenLabs just raised $500M at an $11B valuation! This massive investment will fuel their mission to transform human-tech interaction, especially with ElevenAgents. Huge potential here for enterprise voice solutions.
ElevenLabs closed 2025 with over $330 million in ARR, driven by rapid enterprise adoption of ElevenAgents. ElevenAgents customers include Deutsche Telekom, Square, the Ukrainian Government, and Revolut for customer support, conversational commerce, citizen engagement, internal
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$330M+ ARR combined with rapid enterprise expansion proves conversational Al is no longer experimental. It's operational technology running real workflows across global organizations - and ElevenLabs is leading that transition. https://elevenlabs.io/careers
Excited to see @elevenlabsio raise $500m at $1️⃣1️⃣b! I've only been here for one month but the speed at how fast this team moves is unlike no other. So many new updates to come, from our v3 model that will be the most expressive voice model with over 70+ languages to our Agents …
We've just raised $500m at $11bn valuation to continue going deeper in the technology that underpins human-technology interactions. Our Agents platform handled +3M agents in 2025 and powers some of the largest companies in the world for customer support, customer onboarding, KYC …
ElevenLabs will continue to expand product and engineering globally with locally embedded go-to-market teams. Join us as we transform how people interact with technology: https://elevenlabs.io/careers
ElevenLabs has raised $500M at an $11B valuation. We're doubling down on ElevenAgents - our enterprise platform for building voice and chat agents. We are hiring across all roles. [video]
We are using the funds to double down on ElevenAgents, which enables enterprises to deploy voice and chat agents with the reliability, integrations, testing, and monitoring required for large-scale customer operations. Today, we upgraded our agents with faster response times and