ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

September 8, 2025

Duration

1h 22m

Channel

The Twenty Minute VC

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the world’s leading AI voice platform. Since launching in 2022, ElevenLabs has raised over $350M, most recently at a $3.3BN valuation, making it one of Europe’s fastest AI unicorns. The company counts Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Sequoia Capital among its backers. Today, Mati announces that the company has hit a staggering $200M ARR. ElevenLabs took 20 months to hit $100M ARR. 10 months to hit $200M ARR. Can they do $300M in 5 months… ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:20 Early Life & Founding Origins 06:23 Building the Product & Early Challenges 17:00 Pre-seed Fundraising 30:20 $90M Raise & Working with A16z 41:14 Team, Culture & Scaling 1:02:20 Revenue Growth & Business Model 1:12:00 M&A Offers & Secondary Liquidity 1:14:43 Quick-Fire Round ----------------------------------------------- Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3j2KMcZTtgTNBKwtZBMHvl?si=85bc9196860e4466 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-twenty-minute-vc-20vc-venture-capital-startup/id958230465 Follow Harry Stebbings on X: https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings Follow Mati Staniszewski on X: https://twitter.com/matistanis Follow 20VC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/20vchq Follow 20VC on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@20vc_tok Visit our Website: https://www.20vc.com Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/contact ----------------------------------------------- #20vc #harrystebbings #MatiStaniszewski #founder #ElevenLabs #chatgpt5 #OpenAi #europe #aimodels #CEO

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Mati Staniszewski

  guest

• Harry Stebbings

  host

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, featuring Mati Staniszewski and Harry Stebbings, ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup explores elevenLabs’ meteoric rise: Europe’s voice-AI rocket to $200M ARR Harry Stebbings interviews ElevenLabs CEO and co‑founder Mati Staniszewski on building one of the fastest‑growing AI startups from Europe, going from beta launch in January 2023 to over $200M ARR in under two years.

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