ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company that specializes in generating ultra-realistic, human-like speech and expanding audio AI into music, video, and conversational agents. Founded to solve the problem of robotic-sounding synthetic voices, ElevenLabs built foundational models that capture emotional nuance, pacing, and context, letting the voice AI avoid the flat delivery typical of older text-to-speech systems. Today the company operates three connected platforms: ElevenCreative for content generation and editing, ElevenAgents for deploying conversational voice and chat agents, and ElevenAPI for developers who want to build audio capabilities directly into their own products. The platform's core strength is Text to Speech, offering access to a library of 10,000+ voices across 70+ languages, plus instant and professional voice cloning that can replicate a speaker's voice from just a short sample. Beyond speech, ElevenLabs supports transcription with speaker diarization, dubbing that preserves the original speaker's performance across languages, AI-generated music and sound effects, and an all-in-one Studio editor for producing podcasts, audiobooks, and voiceovers. ElevenAgents extends this into real-time, low-latency conversational agents that can read, listen, and take action via tool calls, with support for any leading LLM and built-in Retrieval-Augmented Generation. ElevenLabs is used by individual creators, YouTubers, and podcasters as well as large enterprises like Disney, Cisco, Salesforce, NVIDIA, and Deutsche Telekom for customer support automation, localization, and multilingual marketing. Its use cases span audiobook narration, video game voiceovers, accessibility tools, e-learning, and enterprise-grade customer service agents deployed across phone, chat, and web channels. The company reports crossing $500M in annual recurring revenue and closed a $500 million Series D round in February 2026 led by Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $11 billion and tripling its valuation in a year as it explores a potential IPO; total funding to date stands at roughly $780M+ across investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, ICONIQ, and NVIDIA. The tool is well suited for solo content creators who need fast, affordable narration, as well as engineering teams building voice-driven products who need a well-documented API, low latency, and enterprise security certifications like SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance.