Mati Staniszewski co-founded ElevenLabs in 2022 alongside Piotr Dąbkowski, building a voice-AI company that grew quickly on the strength of unusually natural-sounding synthetic speech. As CEO, Staniszewski has overseen the company's rapid fundraising trajectory and its expansion from a narrow text-to-speech tool into a broader voice-AI platform supporting emotional inflection and dozens of languages.
Staniszewski has positioned ElevenLabs' dual London-New York structure as deliberate, aiming to draw talent and enterprise customers from both the European and American AI markets simultaneously rather than consolidating around a single hub.