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ElevenLabs Plans Tenfold India Team Expansion Amid Voice AI Growth
ElevenLabs makes tools that let computers speak and understand people.
The company says more Indian businesses are using these tools.
It plans to make its India engineering team ten times bigger and open an office there by the end of the year.
Businesses in India made 100 million calls or conversations using its ElevenAgents service over the past year.
More than 70% of those conversations used Hindi, Kannada, Tamil or Telugu.
The company also wants to help government offices use voice AI to make services easier to reach.
It signed an agreement with a Karnataka government technology organization to work on this.
ElevenLabs says it is investing more in India, including in talent and engineering.
ElevenLabs plans to grow its India forward-deployed engineering team tenfold and establish an India office by year-end.
India is the company’s second-largest market outside the United States, with more than 250 business and enterprise customers.
Indian businesses recorded 100 million ElevenAgents conversations over the past year; more than 70% were in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil or Telugu.
The company says more than 25,000 Indian developers and businesses use its API each month, roughly 2.5 times the level a year earlier.
ElevenLabs signed an MOU with the Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society to advance voice AI adoption and a safety framework.
- Who
- ElevenLabs, including its India general manager Karthik Rajaram and public-sector partnerships lead Nihal Chauhan.
- What
- The company plans a tenfold expansion of its India FDE team, an India office, and broader commercial and public-sector voice AI work.
- Where
- India, with the announcement made alongside ElevenLabs’ first India Summit in Bengaluru.
- When
- The announcement was published October 6, 2026; the office is planned by the end of the year.
- Why
- ElevenLabs says demand is growing and it is increasing investment to support customers, enterprise deployments and potential government uses.
Key facts
- India market position
- ElevenLabs’ second-largest market outside the United States.
- India customers
- More than 250 businesses and enterprises.
- ElevenAgents usage
- 100 million conversations recorded by Indian businesses over the past year.
- Conversation languages
- More than 70% of conversations were in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu.
- Monthly API users
- More than 25,000 Indian developers and businesses, up roughly 2.5 times over the past year.
- Funding-related valuation
- A recently closed $300 million employee tender offer valued ElevenLabs at $22 billion, double its Series D valuation in February.
- Public-sector agreement
- ElevenLabs signed an MOU with the Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society to advance voice AI adoption.
Quotes
Karthik Rajaram
General Manager, India, at ElevenLabs
“India is strategic for the company. We’ve tripled our book of business since the start of this year. Our teams have crossed functions and grown manifold, and we continue to double down on our goal of getting $100 million in revenue as soon as possible.”
thehindubusinessline.com
“In India, our FDE team is critical because while we have phenomenal technology and platform models, at the end of the day, we have to move the metric for customers. We have to ensure somebody is working closely with them to unblock those levers.”
thehindubusinessline.com
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