ElevenLabs' $300 million employee tender, led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, values the London voice AI firm at $22 billion, double its February price. The company raises no new cash, so the doubled price comes from roughly 1.4% of its stock changing hands.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers ElevenLabs is valued at $22 billion, double its February mark, after employees sold $300 million of shares to investors led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price. Its usage evidence is a self-reported conversation count, and teams sizing voice automation still need completion rates the announcement did not include.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
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buildConfirmed3 publishers ElevenLabs released Eleven v4 Turbo for voice agents, reporting medians of about 100 ms inference latency and 150 ms to first speech. Moving an existing agent takes more than a model ID swap, since older voice clones need retraining and SSML break tags no longer work.
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buildOne report1 publisher ElevenLabs' CEO wants AI phone agents to announce themselves while callers still expect a human
ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski, whose agents handle Klarna's first-line support for 35 million U.S. customers, says callers should be told when AI answers. He limits the norm to a period when callers still expect a person, and his suggested version makes disclosure a routing choice at the top of the call.
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- Evidence40
- Adoption60
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Universal Music and ElevenLabs announced a multi-year deal on September 10 for a remix and vocal platform still in development, with no launch date, no price and no participating artist named so far.
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ElevenLabs' CEO will squeeze margins for share in a voice market he expects to even out
ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski will let gross margins shrink to win share, at a $600 million annual revenue pace and a reported $22 billion valuation. Decagon trained on its voices and now competes with it, so teams buying voice AI should plan to swap the voice itself.
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- Evidence35
- Adoption60
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- Confidence42
buildOne report1 publisher ElevenLabs' $29 receptionist tier answers one call at a time
Reception bundles the voice model, a phone number and a calendar write into a self-serve plan with 75 included minutes a month. That works out at about 39 cents a minute, the rate a home-built inbound agent has to beat.
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Universal's multi-year deal with ElevenLabs covers product development as well as rights, though the announcement does not name the participating artists, set a launch date or disclose terms, so the roster gets decided after signing.
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