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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 86368, member: 27"] A $500 million Series D just catapulted ElevenLabs to an $11 billion valuation, tripling what the AI audio startup was worth barely a year ago. The massive funding haul [LIST] [*]ElevenLabs pulled in $500 million with Sequoia Capital steering the round. [*]Andrew Reed snagged a board seat as part of the deal. [*]Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ both doubled down on their existing stakes. [*]Lightspeed Venture Partners, Evantic Capital, and BOND hopped in as fresh backers. [/LIST] Valuation trajectory has been wild [LIST] [*]ElevenLabs sat at $3.3 billion after its $180 million Series C in January 2025. [*]A $100 million tender offer last fall pegged the company at $6.6 billion. [*]NVIDIA made a strategic investment back in September 2025. [*]Total fundraising across five rounds has reached $781 million. [/LIST] Products span way beyond voice tech [LIST] [*]ElevenAgents powers voice and chat bots for Deutsche Telekom, Revolut, and Ukraine's government. [*]ElevenCreative handles content localization for clients like Duolingo and TIME. [*]ElevenAPI delivers voice infrastructure to Meta, Epic Games, and Salesforce. [*]Eleven Music dropped six months ago as a direct rival to Suno and Udio. [/LIST] Licensing and expansion plans on deck [LIST] [*]Deals with Merlin and publisher Kobalt are already locked in. [*]Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski co-founded the company back in 2022. [*]Global office growth targets cities from Tokyo and Seoul to São Paulo and Berlin. [*]Staniszewski openly flagged an IPO as part of the long-term roadmap. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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