{"id":235964,"date":"2026-01-13T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235964\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:44:10","slug":"elevenlabs-ceo-says-the-voice-ai-startup-crossed-330-million-arr-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235964\/","title":{"rendered":"ElevenLabs CEO says the voice AI startup crossed $330 million ARR last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ElevenLabs, the AI voice generation startup, crossed $330 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), CEO Mati Staniszewski said in an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elevenlabsio\/status\/2010777303572242480?s=20\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cReally, what this [growth in ARR] shows is that trajectory across the company. We started the company in 2022 and launched the first product in 2023. It took us 20 months to reach $100 million in ARR, 10 months to reach $200 million, and five months to reach the current number,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staniszewski mentioned that both Fortune 500 companies and startups are adopting its voice agent technology, which uses company data and knowledge bases to power customer support and customer experience interactions. In <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elevenlabsio\/status\/2010777305828761778?s=20\">a separate post on X<\/a>, the company noted that enterprises have deployed its technology to handle more than 50,000 calls per month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The startup raised $180 million in Series C funding <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/30\/elevenlabs-raises-180-million-in-series-c-funding-at-3-3-billion-valuation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth at a $3.3 billion valuation<\/a> in June 2025. It then doubled its <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcast\/elevenlabs-just-hit-a-6-6b-valuation-its-ceo-says-the-real-money-isnt-in-voice-anymore\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">valuation three months<\/a> later when ICONIQ and another earlier investor, Sequoia, shelled out another $100 million to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/blog\/announcing-an-employee-tender\" target=\"_blank\">snap up employee shares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides providing models for voice generation and voice agents, the company launched <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/05\/elevenlabs-launches-an-ai-music-generator-which-it-claims-is-cleared-for-commercial-use\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">music creation capabilities<\/a> last year and also struck <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/11\/12\/elevenlabs-strike-deals-with-celebs-to-create-ai-audio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a deal with celebrities such as Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey to use their voices for AI-generated content<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ElevenLabs, the AI voice generation startup, crossed $330 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), CEO Mati Staniszewski said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,81476,11304,85,46,125,16779],"class_list":["post-235964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-elevenlabs","tag-enterprise","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-voice-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}