New ElevenLabs model. Our fastest yet for voice agents - Eleven Realtime listens, thinks and replies in under half a second.

Excited to welcome @etandowsky to @ElevenLabs as CFO! Ethan joins us from Adyen, a global financial technology platform also born in Europe, where he served as CFO. He’ll help us build world-class financial operations as we scale - and hopefully prepare us to go public one day!

Very excited to announce that @ashleyekramer is joining @ElevenLabs as Chief Revenue Officer. Ashley joins us from OpenAI, where she led enterprise sales. Her career spans an incredible range of companies and roles, all the way back to starting as a software engineer at NASA!

Stripe is now an ElevenLabs customer! When Piotr and I started @ElevenLabs, one of the first things we did was set up a @Stripe account and every subscription we’ve collected has run through their infrastructure. We're excited that Stripe is now using ElevenAgents to interact with the businesses it serves and ElevenCreative to support its brand and marketing work. Stripe built the payments layer for the internet, serving millions of businesses around the world. Our goal is to make ElevenLabs that layer for customer interaction.

We just crossed $500M ARR and welcomed new investors to @ElevenLabs: BlackRock, Wellington, Nvidia, Santander, Jamie Foxx, Eva Longoria and more. Natural, human-like communication will be critical to broad AI adoption - and these new investors help us accelerate that work.

Recently we celebrated an incredible milestone: adding $14M of additional ARR in a single day. It was our first day crossing $10M, and it’s crazy to see how much has changed since the early days and our very first deal. One of our first agreements was signed in November 2022 at Web Summit in Lisbon. From the start, we adopted a unique strategy: self-serve and sales-led GTM motions could work together in harmony from day zero. Still many of the fundamentals of traditional sales were entirely new to us: - Our inaugural deal was closed almost live during the conference spearheading the early pitching to bring it home. It was with another startup, focused on building AI avatars who needed high-quality speech. While they were also in an early stage they were keen to move quicker and also take the bet on us - which formed the initial target for who to reach out to with our technology - Unsure if our product was fully ready, we often offered it for free initially to demonstrate value, only asking for payment once companies recognized that value (frequently far too late too!). With this first deal, we agreed to start charging only after about 2 months, with volumes ramping up as their needs grew. - We were unfamiliar with the necessary details of the paperwork required to sign a deal, and with ChatGPT not yet available and cash tight, we ended up co-drafting the agreement with the client. - And we closed it - for a huge amount at the time - of $1,000 ARR. Fast-forward to November this year: $14M of additional ARR closed in a single-day. Our core principles remain, but our processes and platform have evolved dramatically: - We still prioritize proving value before seeking major commitments. While the $14M was closed in single day, it was the culmination of around 12 months of collaboration, proving out value and building toward a deep partnership - Our offering has grown from speech to agents and the broader audio solutions, evolving from a single-product to a muti-product enterprise platform. - We moved from ad hoc paperwork to structured workflows and agent automations at each stage of the deal process (a variation of message we received after the deal, from the brilliant RevOps team, below). This ensures a transparent process across the entire company. And witnessing this level of collaboration always a pleasure. - And today, although our sales team still shows our platform live on the ground at events, we bring together Forward Deployed Engineers, core product, legal and GTM to ensure seamless execution through which makes working with our partners a true team activity.

Roundup of @elevenlabs September product updates - we’re continuing to evolve functionality and ease of use across both our Agents and Creative platform. And personally so excited to ship a number of our branding updates soon, too! Agents Platform - Shipped Tests for Agents for structured simulations of tools, guardrails, handoffs, and knowledge checks in CI/CD - Cut RAG rewrite p50 from 326 ms to 155 ms for lower always-on retrieval overhead, using model racing with a 1s fallback - Released Agents Academy for a guided path from first agent to production - We partnered with Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation to bring voice to public services: a voice-enabled digital twin of Minister Fedorov, voice access in Diia, education voiceovers, and internal assistants - as part of it already expanding our platform to cater to even more sensitive and high scale use-cases Creative Platform - Studio 3.0 got a massive update enabling end-to-end editing in one timeline: voiceovers, Music, SFX, isolation, changer, captions, speech correction, and multiplayer comments - We introduced Productions for ordering human-edited dubbing, captions, transcripts, and audiobooks directly in ElevenLabs - Launched Voice Remixing (alpha) for reimagining your own or designed voices. - SFX v2 supports higher quality, seamless looping, 30s duration, 48 kHz, an expanded library, and Studio integration A sneak peek of our webpage with all of it below - coming soon (thanks, @NevFlynn !)

We’re excited to share that NVIDIA is investing in ElevenLabs, with support from Jensen Huang. Last week’s U.S. state visit to the UK strengthened AI ties. With our roots growing deeper in both places, this partnership and conversation were the perfect way to cap it off.