Piotr Dabkowski was born in December 1994. He attended Mikolaj Kopernik High School in Warsaw, where he met Mati Staniszewski. He studied engineering at the University of Oxford and earned an MPhil at Cambridge in 2017.
He worked as a software engineer at Opera Software, then held roles at Google and Tessian.
In 2022 he and Staniszewski founded ElevenLabs. Dabkowski is chief technology officer and leads its AI voice work.
The company raised $19m in a Series A in June 2023 and $500m at an $11bn valuation in February 2026. A tender offer in September 2026 valued it at $22bn.