ElevenLabs · Jun 2026
Holt was appointed Field CTO to lead forward-deployed engineering and help enterprises put the company’s AI into production.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
ElevenLabs is a London-headquartered AI research and product company founded in 2022. It develops highly realistic, multilingual audio and conversational AI for creators, developers, and enterprises, expanding from text-to-speech into speech-to-text, dubbing, music, sound effects, and voice/chat agents.
Primary product
An AI audio platform organized into ElevenAgents (enterprise voice and chat agents), ElevenCreative (speech, music, image, and video generation/editing), and ElevenAPI (developer access to audio foundation models).
Founded
2022
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Team size
500-800; company reported 530 teammates across 50+ countries in May 2026
Work style
Remote
Industry
Artificial intelligence / software
Sub-industry
Generative AI audio, voice technology, conversational AI, and developer APIs
Offices
Business model
Leadership
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder; technical/product leadership
Field CTO
The company emphasizes high ownership, autonomy, first-principles thinking, technical excellence, ethical awareness, lean teams, asynchronous documentation, and remote-first collaboration. It describes a driven, high-bar environment focused on difficult research and product problems.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public salary bands are generally unavailable. External signals indicate competitive frontier-AI compensation and meaningful equity, with location-based differences; treat third-party figures as estimates rather than company-confirmed ranges.
Benefits
Pricing
Freemium and tiered monthly subscriptions with shared usage credits; listed plans include Free, Starter ($6/month), Creator ($22/month), Pro ($99/month), Scale ($299/month), Business ($990/month), plus custom Enterprise pricing. API and media features are metered by credits/usage.
Differentiators
Estimated revenue
$330M-$600M ARR; company reported over $330M ARR at end-2025 and over $500M ARR by May 2026. Some third-party databases report lower/inconsistent figures, so this is best treated as an ARR estimate rather than audited revenue.
Estimated monthly visits
33.3M
ElevenLabs · Jun 2026
Holt was appointed Field CTO to lead forward-deployed engineering and help enterprises put the company’s AI into production.
ElevenLabs · May 2026
The company reported more than $500M ARR, new institutional, strategic, and celebrity investors, and a $100M employee tender offer.
ElevenLabs Engineering/Research Blog · Feb 2026
Describes a low-latency orchestration architecture combining ElevenLabs research with frontier and open-source models for enterprise real-time conversations.
ElevenLabs · Feb 2026
Sequoia led the round; total disclosed funding reached $781M and the company said 2025 ARR exceeded $330M.
225 jobs at ElevenLabs
Jan 2024 · Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross
Jun 2023 · Nat Friedman
Jan 2023 · Credo Ventures
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TechCrunch · Feb 2026
Independent coverage corroborated the Series D, valuation, investor participation, and international expansion plans.