ElevenLab’s valuation doubles to $22BN, as completes $300M employee tender offer
Tech.eu John Reynolds ● Covered by 3 sources
ElevenLabs says its value has hit $22bn after a $300m employee stock sale. That’s double its February price, and new big-name investors piled in too.
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ElevenLabs says its valuation has jumped to $22bn, less than a year after it was last priced at $11bn. The UK AI audio company also closed a $300m employee tender offer, giving current and former staff a way to sell shares instead of waiting for a bigger exit that may still be a long way off.
CEO Mati Staniszewski announced the deal on X and framed it as part of a broader progress update for the company. ElevenLabs built its name on software that turns text into speech with a human-sounding delivery, and Staniszewski said the company has now released two new text-to-speech models alongside its AI platform.
The tender offer was led by Wellington and T Rowe Price. Existing investors and employees sold £300m worth of stock, while first-time backers in the round included EQT, Goldman Sachs, GIC, OTPP, Sapphire Ventures and BDT & MSD.
ElevenLabs has done employee tender offers before, and that fits the pattern here: fast growth on paper, plus some real liquidity for the people inside the company. Staniszewski tied that to a bigger argument too, saying AI should work in a way people can actually use, and that enterprises and governments are already adopting expressive voice agents for customer and citizen services.
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This is what hot AI companies do now: raise the number, open a side door for insiders, and call it progress. The real tell is the tender offer — when a startup is already building a market for employee liquidity, it’s acting like a public company with better branding. Very efficient, very modern, and very familiar.
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