Tim von Känel

- First software engineer, second employee, joined after $9M pre-seed round, now at $11B valuation - Main developer behind the datasets of all of our Speech Generation and Speech to Text models, including Eleven v1, Eleven v2, Eleven v2.5, Eleven v3, Scribe v1, Scribe v2, Scribe v2 Realtime, our dubbing models, our voice changer models - Main developer of our platform (elevenlabs.io) until launch early 2023 and the months following the launch (co-created the frontend, created most of the initial backend, designed and implemented our customer facing and internal APIs, wrote the TTS endpoints, voice cloning endpoints, the billing system, etc ...) - Led different teams over different overlapping timeframes: Backend Engineering (20 months), Speech to Text (12 Months), Music Product (6 Months), Safety Engineering (6 Months), decided to move to full-time-research position because it was more fun - Creator of Projects - our TTS editor for long-form content generation, later renamed to Studio and taken over by another team