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
ElevenLabs gains $500M of fresh capital and an $11B valuation benchmark, strengthening its ability to fund product development and commercial expansion.
Sequoia becomes the lead investor in a company reporting $330M in 2025 ARR, while existing shareholders receive a clearer valuation reference point.
Second-order effects
The combination of a large round and disclosed ARR gives late-stage AI voice and audio companies a sharper fundraising benchmark, increasing pressure to demonstrate commercial scale rather than technical capability alone.
More capital at ElevenLabs can intensify competition for enterprise voice and audio workloads, pushing adjacent providers to differentiate on product quality, distribution, or commercial terms.
Third-order effects
If comparable revenue-backed rounds continue, AI voice could consolidate around a smaller group of well-capitalized platforms able to finance both model development and go-to-market execution.
The deal is another signal that late-stage AI financing is separating companies with measurable recurring revenue from earlier-stage model and tooling startups.
The trend: AI voice is entering a scale-up phase in which capital concentrates behind providers that can pair generative-media capabilities with substantial recurring revenue.
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
We just raised $500M at an 11B valuation 🎉 To celebrate, we're giving away 1,000 free credits so you can test our platform. For the next 6 hours, comment “11B” below and we'll DM you the credits (must follow) 👇
$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
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.
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
With this funding, we're going even deeper with ElevenAgents - our conversational Agents Platform helping enterprises elevate customer experience, revenue teams, and streamline internal operations. The platform has already driven our acceleration to close 2025 with over $330M in…
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…
“It took us 20 months to get our first $100M in ARR, 10 months to get to $200M, and 5 months to get to $330M.” After raising $500M at an $11B valuation, ElevenLabs co-founder @matiii breaks down the story behind their growth: [video]