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Weitzman: Speechify Simba 3.2 ranks number one globally for quality
“The newest Speechify Simba 3.2 model is ranked number one in the world for quality. Above all the frontier labs, 10 x more affordable and stuff like 11 Labs.”
Stebbings: ElevenLabs has $800M in revenue and is raising at $22B
“I think 11 Labs is at eight hundred million in revenue. Raising it twenty two billion.”
Weitzman: ElevenLabs inference costs range from $30 to $100 per million characters
“For the like standard model is anywhere from 70 to a hundred bucks. And for the V three fast model, it's like 30 bucks.”
Staniszewski: Enterprise partner beat ElevenLabs to AI dubbing launch in 2023
“One of the enterprise clients, we told them that we are planning to launch our dubbing solution, combining those components later, later in that, it was it was, I think September later in that, that month. And they took the components and released dubbing two …”
ElevenLabs speech-to-text beats OpenAI and Gemini on benchmarks
“Then speech to text is beating open AI, Gemini on benchmarks.”
Reyna scaled ElevenLabs revenue from zero to over $350M ARR
“He's scaled the revenue org from zero to over three hundred and fifty million in ARR.”
ElevenLabs generates revenue using an internal AI customer success manager
“And that has close deals for us already. We generate money from that AI customer success manager fundamentally because it is humanly, right?”
Stebbings: ElevenLabs is valued near $7B with $400M in annual revenue
“Now, this was recorded in May, but now the company is valued at close to seven billion dollars, does four hundred million in revenue”
Stebbings: ElevenLabs scaled to $400M ARR in 2025 despite OpenAI competition
“I think when you look at what 11 labs have done this year, scaling to four hundred million in ARR, Standing off competition from OpenAI in any of the other incumbents.”
Staniszewski: OpenAI will definitely enter the AI voice market
“They definitely will, but I think they, you know, they lack the...”
Harries: ElevenLabs Won't Build Digital Avatars to Avoid Competing With Clients
“We want to build the best platform to make these end-to-end conversational AI agents, but we explicitly don't want to be building full digital avatar platforms, so that way we're able to be trusted partners to companies like Hey Jen, Synthesia, Captions, who a…”
Reyna committed to investing in ElevenLabs after a 30-minute conversation
“11, I mean, like, I talked to Matic for 30 minutes and I committed, right?”
Staniszewski: a16z connected ElevenLabs with celebrities before investing
“A-sixteen Z was phenomenal. They did exactly what we spoke about, which was, they've shown us that they cared before they invested. They introduced us to incredible people, to some celebrities to work on the voice licensing. So they were like on it for two wee…”