Founder Profile
Mati Staniszewski
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Mati Staniszewski?
Mati Staniszewski is a founder of ElevenLabs, which was founded in 2022 with Piotr Dabkowski.
- Company founded
- ElevenLabs
- Founded
- 2022
- Co-founders
- Piotr Dabkowski
Background
Studied mathematics at Imperial College London and worked as a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies before co-founding ElevenLabs.
Founding Story
Mati Staniszewski is the Polish-born co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs. He grew up near Warsaw, studied mathematics at Imperial College London and worked at Palantir before starting ElevenLabs with school friend Piotr Dabkowski in 2022. As CEO he has led the company through its Series B (2024), Series C (2025), $11 billion Series D (February 2026) and $22 billion employee tender (September 2026).
Mateusz "Mati" Staniszewski was born in 1995.