# Piotr Dabkowski

> Piotr Dabkowski is the Polish cofounder and CTO of ElevenLabs. A Warsaw school friendship, frustration with flat film voiceovers, research at Cambridge and machine learning work at Google led him toward AI tools that preserve expression across languages. He leads ElevenLabs' research and engineering teams.

- **Role:** Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer at ElevenLabs
- **Organizations:** ElevenLabs, Google
- **From:** Gdańsk, Poland
- **Nationality:** Polish
- **Education:** BA in Engineering, University of Oxford, MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, University of Cambridge
- **Known for:** Cofounded ElevenLabs and leads its research and engineering teams., Coauthored Real Time Image Saliency for Black Box Classifiers, published at NeurIPS 2017., Named to the 2024 TIME100 AI list.

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Coauthored a NeurIPS paper with Yarin Gal on real time image saliency.
- **2018–2022** — Worked as a software engineer on machine learning at Google.
- **2022** — Cofounded ElevenLabs with former Warsaw schoolmate Mati Staniszewski.
- **2024** — Included in the TIME100 AI list.
- **2026** — Cofauthored ElevenLabs' Series D announcement and discussed the company's expanded audio research.

## Achievements

- Cofounded ElevenLabs and leads its research and engineering teams.
- Coauthored Real Time Image Saliency for Black Box Classifiers, published at NeurIPS 2017.
- Named to the 2024 TIME100 AI list.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — ElevenLabs announced Polish state investment and an AI Lab Poland initiative; the announcement recalled where the founders met.
- **2026-02** — ElevenLabs announced a $500 million Series D at an $11 billion valuation; Dabkowski outlined work on foundational audio models.

## Links

- Website: https://piter.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-dabkowski-50222bba
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/dabkowski_piotr
- GitHub: https://github.com/PiotrDabkowski
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/piotr.dabkowski.7

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Last updated: 2026-09-29