Jack Piunti

This Friday at @sxsw, we will premiere 11 Voices - the first docuseries where people with voice loss narrate their own stories using AI versions of their voices. It is part of our work to help 1 million people regain their voices.

I lead ElevenAgents and today we announced Expressive Mode. Everyone hates talking to bots. Pick how human you want your AI support to feel. Unedited example below. Achieve great undistinguishable support with ElevenAgents.

@Marko_Jozef Manager has a pretty cool sounding voice

Introducing Expressive Mode for ElevenAgents - voice agents so expressive, they blur the line between AI and human conversations. This is an unedited recording of an agent empathizing with a customer at peak frustration.

@kimmaicutler Go bells!

Nah. Bay Area grind schools are having a legendary run -- Anthropic, Doordash, etc. Even the San Jose Catholic boys' school Bellarmine -- Coinbase and Mercor!

ElevenLabs started as a weekend project. They crossed $330M ARR in 2025 as they build the voice interface of the future. This is the ElevenLabs story. An a16z Original.

Today, @elevenlabs 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.

And that’s a wrap on the first ElevenLabs Summit. A full day with partners, friends, and the team - showing what we’ve built and where we’re going. An amazing day: - Jack Dorsey joined to talk about the future and the place of voice and agents in it. - Yvonne Johnson spoke about why voice matters and how central it is to dignity. - With David Rogier we explored the future of education and hands-on learning. - We shared our Impact Program work - fitting on a day marked by service and memory - Veterans Day in the US, Independence Day in Poland, Remembrance Day in many countries. - Across leaders at Salesforce, Disney, and TELUS we dug into how enterprises are deploying our tools to reduce wait times, localize content, and unlock new customer experiences. - And we had amazing startups join us to, with Nowadays taking home prize 11/11 will always be special for ElevenLabs. On this day 3 years ago we launched our first TTS model with a team of 5. Since then: - We grew from a foundational-model company into a product company - two full platforms: an Agents Platform with configuration, deployment, and monitoring built in for elevating customer experiences and an end-to-end Creative Platform for narration, voiceover, and dubbing. - We keep on pushing audio research frontier forward powering our platforms - from TTS to STT, Music, SFX, Dubbing & Orchestration models. - We scaled from $0 to nearly $300M ARR, now serving millions of creators and thousands of enterprises - paving the way - We built a team of more than 350 people, all pushing in the same direction from all corners of the world Yet it’s just the beginning. We’re here to solve how humans and technology interact - making creation and interaction seamless, on human terms, giving people more time and control. And we are heads down and all in on making this happen. Not everyone could be there for the picture. But everyone’s work is reflected in where we got to, with @dabkowski_piotr & I just immensely proud of our team and partners working to make the future happen sooner.

We’re looking for 4 world class creatives to join the @elevenlabs Design Team. Product Design (Creative Platform, designing interfaces for our AI audio research) Product Design (Agents Platform, it’s a technical product, so ideally technical background) Website Design (Designing pages for a rebranded marketing website) Brand Design (Levelling up the brand, and supporting asset creation) If this is you, or someone you know, DMs are open.

Traba is a staffing platform that matches industrial businesses with vetted, qualified temp workers at scale. @Traba_Work's AI interviewer, Scout, leverages ElevenLabs Agents to conduct over 50,000 interviews monthly across warehousing, logistics, and manufacturing roles - reducing manual workload, improving placement rates, and delivering consistent evaluations across every region.

Today, @elevenlabs is launching a $100M employee tender co-led by Sequoia & ICONIQ at a $6.6B valuation - 2x since Series C just 9 months ago. With ARR >$200M in <3 years and enterprise adoption surging, we’re aligning the team for long term while helping them realize value now

@kirbyman01 @elevenlabs

Just haggled something down from $350 to $333 and reached 1111 posts today. I am fully converted now @elevenlabs

The design team at @elevenlabs is making big moves🚀 We've released a brand new Conversational Agents page, redesigned from the ground up for the most powerful version of Al Agents yet. It's a big deal because it represents a new direction for the ElevenLabs brand - a combination of simplicity, research, and sound aesthetics. We've added lots of fun and cool little details, so make sure to check it out below. It's only a stepping stone to our true vision, and we're excited about what's to come next.

Oooh his name is Diogooo 🎶 Truly special moments at full-time ❤️

Introducing Eleven v3 (alpha) - the most expressive Text to Speech model ever. Supporting 70+ languages, multi-speaker dialogue, and audio tags such as [excited], [sighs], [laughing], and [whispers]. Now in public alpha and 80% off in June.

@buzinover Where is circle buz in the corner - you need your loom explaining it! Great launch congrats!

Memory is now being rolled out on Perplexity to all Free and Pro users. Let us know what you think and how we can keep making it better

@matiii What a month - and June is going to be even better!

The ElevenLabs product teams picked up speed in May - delivering one of our biggest waves of launches yet. Shipped: - Conversational AI 2.0 - our platform for building AI voice agents now includes: SOTA turn-taking model, language detection, multi-character support, voice & text modalities, integrated RAG, Twilio SIP trunking, human handoff, and more! - Voice Library branding update - exploring and saving voices and collections is now so much easier. The Library is now at over 5,000 professional voices contributed by users across 20+ languages (with $5M+ paid back to community). - Studio - our solution for longer narrations and voiceovers now features enhanced Sound Effects integration, improved pronunciation dictionaries and easier use of Actor Mode. - SB-1 Infinite Soundboard - a prototype to bring infinite sounds to creators, powered by our Text-to-SFX model - Workspace Support - available for Scale & Business plans, making it simpler to invite collaborators and work as a team. - ElevenReader - now accessible through a full web experience and increased with exclusive content - Across Products: EU data residency, VPC support, a set of cleaner analytics & improved designs (sample images below). And there’s so much more coming in June - from powerful new integrations and extensions for Conversational AI, timeline support in Studio, voice control, and a couple of completely new products!

We're rolling out voice mode in beta on mobile. Try starting a voice conversation and asking Claude to summarize your calendar or search your docs.

A big day today: we teamed up with Epic Games to bring Darth Vader’s voice to Fortnite. Millions of players can now speak with Vader in real time. Live voice interactions like this will become the new standard in gaming.