{"id":166318,"date":"2023-06-24T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T15:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/now-hear-this-voice-cloning-ai-startup-elevenlabs-nabs-19m-from-a16z-and-other-heavy-hitters"},"modified":"2023-06-24T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T15:25:52","slug":"now-hear-this-voice-cloning-ai-startup-elevenlabs-nabs-19m-from-a16z-and-other-heavy-hitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/now-hear-this-voice-cloning-ai-startup-elevenlabs-nabs-19m-from-a16z-and-other-heavy-hitters","title":{"rendered":"Now hear this: Voice cloning AI startup ElevenLabs nabs $19M from a16z and other heavy hitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qRPTwPuZLjk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11\u201312, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success<\/em>. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/events.venturebeat.com\/transform-2023\/?utm_source=vb&utm_medium=Boiler&utm_content=landingpage&utm_campaign=T23_Boiler\">Learn More<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.elevenlabs.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ElevenLabs<\/a>, a year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2022\/06\/15\/what-is-artificial-intelligence\/\">AI<\/a> startup from former Google and Palantir employees that is focused on creating new text-to-speech and voice cloning tools, has <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.elevenlabs.io\/blog\/elevenlabs-launches-new-generative-voice-ai-products-and-announces-19m-series-a-round-led-by-nat-friedman-daniel-gross-and-andreessen-horowitz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raised $19 million in a series A round<\/a> co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), former Github CEO Nat Friedman and former Apple AI leader Daniel Gross, with additional participation from Credo Ventures, Concept Ventures and an array of strategic angel investors including Instagram\u2019s co-founder Mike Krieger, Oculus VR co-founder Brendan Iribe and many others.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Andreessen Horowitz is joining ElevenLabs\u2019 board, citing the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/01\/18\/122701268\/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech<\/a> in its <a href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/2023\/06\/20\/investing-in-elevenlabs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blog post on the news<\/a>, as one of the examples of how the human \u201cvoice carries not only our ideas, but also the most profound emotions and connections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11\u201312, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More ElevenLabs, a year-old AI startup from former Google and Palantir employees that is focused on creating new text-to-speech and voice cloning tools, has raised $19 million in a series A round co-led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}