Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the world’s leading AI voice platform. Since launching in 2022, ElevenLabs has raised over $350M, most recently at a $3.3BN valuation, making it one of Europe’s fastest AI unicorns. The company counts Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Sequoia Capital among its backers. Today, Mati announces that the company has hit a staggering $200M ARR. ElevenLabs took 20 months to hit $100M ARR. 10 months to hit $200M ARR. Can they do $300M in 5 months…
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Early Life & Founding Origins
06:23 Building the Product & Early Challenges
17:00 Pre-seed Fundraising
30:20 $90M Raise & Working with A16z
41:14 Team, Culture & Scaling
1:02:20 Revenue Growth & Business Model
1:12:00 M&A Offers & Secondary Liquidity
1:14:43 Quick-Fire Round
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