Sifted's report highlights a potential valuation that appears to rely heavily on a strategic pivot toward enterprise revenue, which the founders reportedly expect to dominate by 2027. The key question for investors is whether ElevenLabs can build a durable moat as a standalone tool in a market where multimodal foundation models from giants like OpenAI and Google are increasingly incorporating high-quality voice synthesis as a native feature. The reported tender offer, allowing employee liquidity, may also indicate a desire to manage internal expectations ahead of a potentially more challenging path to an IPO in a less favorable market environment.
ElevenLabs said to seek $22 billion valuation in secondary share sale
The AI voice generation startup is said to be in talks for a tender offer that would double its valuation from earlier this year.
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According to a report from Sifted, AI voice startup ElevenLabs is reportedly in early talks for a secondary share sale that could value the company at $22 billion. If completed, the move would mark a staggering valuation jump in just seven months. In our view, this signals a continued, frothy appetite for perceived AI category leaders, even as questions persist about the long-term defensibility of pure-play voice synthesis technology against larger, integrated model providers.
“The company's revenue split, which stood at roughly 50-50 between consumer and enterprise customers at the end of 2025, was expected to tilt to 70% enterprise revenue by the end of 2027.”
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