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ElevenLabs raises $500M from Sequoia at an $11B valuation
The voice AI startup’s new round fuels expansion and keeps IPO chatter alive.
Voice AI is moving from demos to enterprise adoption, and funding rounds are increasingly about distribution, partnerships, and defensibility—not just model quality.
What to know
- Big financing rounds are flowing to “applied AI” companies with clear use-cases (support, dubbing, creators, enterprise comms).
- The competitive moat is shifting toward data, licensing, and workflow integration.
- Late-stage rounds also set the bar for near-term revenue discipline.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/elevenlabs-raises-500m-from-sequioia-at-a-11-billion-valuation/
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