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Mati Staniszewski and the voice he could not bear to hear
A flat Polish film voiceover stayed with Mati Staniszewski long after school. With his oldest friend, he turned that irritation into ElevenLabs, then followed the question much further: what should a machine sound like when it talks back?
Piotr Dabkowski Wanted the Actors to Speak Polish
A childhood irritation with flat Polish film voiceovers became a technical problem Piotr Dabkowski could not leave alone. The ElevenLabs cofounder now leads the research behind voices designed to carry feeling across languages.
Geoff Chang Is Teaching a Voice Company to Listen
At ElevenLabs, Geoff Chang works in the difficult space between a remarkable demo and a system that a real customer can trust. His method begins with an unfashionable discipline in technology: listening.
Aaron Sekhri
Aaron Sekhri is the co-founder and CEO of Le Walk, a New York startup that turns your headphones into a hands-free local tour guide. After product roles at Uber ATG's self-driving program and TikTok, where he built the mini-program developer platform, Sekhri left the infinite scroll behind to build something that makes people look up. Le Walk delivers GPS-triggered audio tours narrated by real expert guides in 22 languages, and launched publicly in September 2025 with a $4.1 million seed round co-led by Adverb Ventures and Lerer Hippeau.
Alex Immerman
Alex Immerman is a General Partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he leads growth-stage investments across AI, consumer, fintech, crypto, and the physical world. Promoted to GP in January 2026 after seven years with the firm, he has spearheaded investments in category-defining companies including ElevenLabs, EliseAI, Flock Safety, Hebbia, Kalshi, Revolut, Sardine, Stripe, and Waymo. Before a16z, Immerman worked at General Atlantic as a growth-stage investor, served as Chief of Staff for the CFO of Facebook and CEO of Gainsight, and was an investment banker at Allen & Co. He graduated summa cum laude from Wharton and earned his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
Jennifer Li
Jennifer Li is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads infrastructure investments across data systems, developer tools, and AI. Born and raised in northwest China, she pivoted from international business to software engineering before joining a16z in 2018. Promoted to General Partner in April 2024 at age early 30s - making her the 27th GP at the firm - she now helps lead the $1.25B Infrastructure fund. Her portfolio includes early bets on ElevenLabs (backed Series A through D to $11B valuation), Fivetran, dbt, Mux, and MotherDuck.
Andrew Reed
Andrew Reed is a Partner on Sequoia Capital's growth team - possibly the youngest junior partner in Sequoia's history when he joined at 23 from Goldman Sachs in 2014. Over a decade, he's built one of the most impressive growth-stage portfolios in venture capital, with board seats at Figma, Klarna, Bolt, Vanta, Strava, Warp, and Harmonic, and investments in Robinhood, ElevenLabs, Zapier, Phantom, and Sourcegraph. A childhood stutter made him a listener first, which turned into his greatest edge in founder assessment.