Investment

ElevenLabs is in talks to raise fresh funding in a deal that could value the voice AI company at around $11 billion, according to the Financial Times.

If agreed, the round would almost double its most recent valuation of $6.6bn and make the London-based business the UK’s most valuable AI startup.

Sources told the FT that the company is seeking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, just four months after a secondary share sale that valued the business at $6.6bn.

It also comes less than a year following a Series C funding round which valued it at $3.3bn.

ElevenLabs, founded in London in 2022 by Polish entrepreneurs Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dabkowski, develops AI tools that generate lifelike synthetic voices used in areas including customer service, text-to-speech and dubbing.

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It made the Top 100 Rising European Startups for 2025 list by Viva Technology as well as Tech Nation’s Future Fifty last year.

In August, the company unveiled a new tool that lets users create fully-produced music tracks simply by typing a prompt.

It has scaled rapidly and was reported to have reached $330 million in ARR last year, serving clients including Epic Games, Cisco, Chess.com and Perplexity.

A successful raise at the mooted valuation would also place ElevenLabs among the most valuable AI startups in Europe, alongside companies such as autonomous driving startu Wayve and France’s Mistral.

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