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ElevenLabs, an AI audio startup, is raising more than $500M in Series E funding with backers to include Scaleup Europe Fund, per Bloomberg.

  1. Anurag Beniwal in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: MTS & Engineering Lead, Voice Agents @ ElevenLabs (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of AI, Worldwide Customer Service @ Amazon, Senior Manager, Conversational AI @ Amazon, Applied Scientist @ AWS SageMaker

    3. Description: Tinkering @ South Park Commons since 6/26

    4. Contact: Site, [email protected]

  2. Edward Erelt in SF (CEO @ ApexMake)

    1. Role: Early Team & MTS @ ElevenLabs (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: MTS @ Veeve, Senior ML Engineer @ OCCO, ML Engineer @ DriveX, Cambridge MS CS + BA Engineering

    3. Description: "The fastest, most detailed investment market research & due diligence. Built on the largest pool of vetted operators in AI infrastructure, inference, and training.”

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  3. Daniel Edrisian in SF (Founder @ Blackstar) - Venture Lead

    1. Role: SWE @ ElevenLabs (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: MTS @ OpenAI (Codex), Founder @ Alex (YC F24, Khosla Ventures), 1st Hire & Founding Engineer @ FlutterFlow, UC Berkeley BS EECS

    3. Description: "Building the future of human-computer interaction"; new hardware device and OS

    4. Funding: $12M Seed led by Abstract, with SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, Chapter One, Timeless

  4. Azat Khairov in London (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Research Engineer @ ElevenLabs (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Research Engineer @ Higgsfield AI ($138M at $1.3B from Accel, Menlo, GFT), Senior SWE @ PwC, ML Lead @ Sergek, Purdue BS CS

    3. Description: Left ElevenLabs 11/25

  5. Mohsen Azimi in Berlin (Stealth)

    1. Role: Engineering @ ElevenLabs (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Staff SWE @ Airbnb, Senior SWE @ Lyft, Senior SWE @ Google (Apigee)

    3. Description: "Building tsz.dev on the side"

  6. Petr Samokhin in London (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering @ ElevenLabs (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Senior SWE @ Revolut

    3. Description: Left ElevenLabs 11/25

  7. Alex Funk in SF (Founder @ toto)

    1. Role: FDE @ ElevenLabs (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Sales Engineer @ Persona, Founding Sales Engineer @ Checkbook, Solutions Engineer @ Datadog, UCSB BS CS

    3. Description: "Reduce your company's token spend with toto"

  8. Ahmed Khaleel in Toronto (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 1st Intern & SWE Intern @ ElevenLabs (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ GitDiagram (300k+ users, 15k+ GitHub stars, OpenAI + Anthropic grants), Neo Scholar Finalist

    3. Description: McMaster University class of ‘27

    4. Contact: Site, [email protected]

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