Mati Staniszewski

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Mati Staniszewski
Born
Mateusz Staniszewski

1995 (1995)
Education Imperial College London
Occupations
  • Businessman
  • entrepreneur
Known forCo-founding ElevenLabs

Mateusz "Mati" Staniszewski (born 1995 [1] ) is a Polish entrepreneur and a co-founder of ElevenLabs.

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Early life and education

Staniszewski finished Copernicus Bilingual High School in Warsaw  ( Wikidata ). He graduated from Imperial College in London with a degree in mathematics. [1] [2]

Career

He worked at Opera Software, BlackRock and Palantir Technologies. [1] [2] [3] In 2025 he joined the board of Klarna, a Swedish fintech company. [4]

ElevenLabs

In May 2022 he and Piotr Dabkowski co-founded ElevenLabs, a company that specializes in developing natural-sounding speech synthesis software using deep learning. [5] [6]

In 2024, together with his co-founder, he was included in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe. In December 2025 he was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wendzonka, Katarzyna (2025-12-03). "Ma 30 lat i właśnie trafił na okładkę amerykańskiego „Forbesa". Kim jest Mati Staniszewski?". Fashion Biznes (in Polish). Retrieved 2025-12-18.
  2. 1 2 "Sprawili, że Leonardo DiCaprio przemówił głosem Kim Kardashian — i zostali jednorożcem. Polscy magicy od dźwięku warci miliard dolarów". Forbes.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2025-12-18.
  3. ↑ "Now hear this: Voice cloning AI startup ElevenLabs nabs $19M from a16z and other heavy hitters". VentureBeat. 2023-06-20. Archived from the original on 2023-07-27. Retrieved 2025-12-18.
  4. ↑ "Mati Staniszewski appointed to Klarna Group PLC Board of Directors | Klarna International". www.klarna.com. Retrieved 2025-12-18.
  5. ↑ Domaradzki, Krzysztof. "W kilkanaście miesięcy zbudowali firmę wartą kilkaset milionów. Piotr Dąbkowski i Mateusz Staniszewski – o dwóch takich, co nauczyli AI mówić". Forbes.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2025-12-18.
  6. ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (2023-06-20). "Voice-generating platform ElevenLabs raises $19M, launches detection tool". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-12-18.
  7. ↑ Martin, Iain (2025-12-01). "How A Tiny Polish Startup Became The Multi-Billion-Dollar Voice Of AI". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-12-18.
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