Piotr Dąbkowski

Piotr Dąbkowski is co-founder and CTO of ElevenLabs, the AI voice technology company. Born in Poland in 1994, he holds a bachelor's in engineering from the University of Oxford and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He previously worked as a software engineer at Opera, Google, and Tessian before co-founding ElevenLabs in 2022 with his high school friend Mati Staniszewski. He leads the company's work on text-to-speech, voice cloning, and multilingual speech synthesis. In February 2026 ElevenLabs raised $500 million at an $11 billion valuation.