{"id":38959,"date":"2025-07-04T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38959\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:29:08","slug":"voice-ai-startup-elevenlabs-plans-to-add-hubs-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38959\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice AI Startup ElevenLabs Plans to Add Hubs Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ElevenLabs<\/a>, a startup that offers a platform that uses artificial intelligence to generate synthetic voices, reportedly plans to add more hubs around the world and then launch an initial public offering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company has its largest office in London, where it is based; has hubs in New York, Warsaw, San Francisco, Japan, India and Bangalore; and is considering adding more in Paris, Singapore, Brazil and Mexico, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/07\/03\/ai-voice-startup-elevenlabs-plots-global-expansion-eventual-ipo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Thursday (July 3), citing its interview with ElevenLabs CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/matiii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mati Staniszewski<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe expect to build more hubs in Europe, Asia and South America, and just keep scaling,\u201d Staniszewski said in the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ElevenLabs also plans to launch an IPO within the next five years, \u201cif the market is right,\u201d he said, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company was valued at $3.3 billion in a Series C <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/investment-tracker\/2025\/elevenlabs-raises-180-million-to-make-ai-audio-more-expressive-and-controllable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funding round<\/a> in January, a figure that was three times the size of the $1.1 billion valuation seen in another round a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ElevenLabs raised $180 billion in the most recent round, saying it would use the new funding to continue the development of its AI audio technology that is used in content creation, customer support, gaming, education, accessibility and other applications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company launched its platform in 2023 and has since refined its voice AI models and added tools that enable real-time, natural speech for AI agents, speech generation, voice design, sound effects and dubbing in 32 languages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis funding moves us closer to a world where digital interactions happen by voice \u2014 fluid, natural and as effortless as a conversation,\u201d Staniszewski wrote in a January <a href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/blog\/series-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2025\/voice-ai-funding-surges-8x-as-businesses-humanize-chatbots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voice AI<\/a> startups raised $2.1 billion in 2024, up eightfold from 2023, PYMNTS reported in June, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbinsights.com\/research\/voice-ai-market-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> from research firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbinsights.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CB Insights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CB Insights said the growth was driven by advances in voice AI models \u2014 such as OpenAI\u2019s Realtime API for speech-to-speech applications \u2014 that gave a big boost to applications in various used cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staniszewski told the Financial Times in April that ElevenLabs was looking to attract American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/startups\/2025\/british-startups-look-to-us-as-homegrown-funding-grows-scarce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRecognizing the most venture funding comes from the U.S., we set up as a Delaware corporation \u2014 the preferred and familiar structure for U.S. investors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Thursday\u2019s CNBC report, Staniszewski said the firm has not yet decided where it will list its IPO, adding that it will probably do so in the country where most of its users are located at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ElevenLabs, a startup that offers a platform that uses artificial intelligence to generate synthetic voices, reportedly plans 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