Voices.com
👤 David & Stephanie Ciccarelli (They ran a recording studio first, so day one they had a few dozen voice talent listed. Bootstrapped on bank loans, no early VC.)🌐 sitedavidciccarelli.com𝕏LinkedIn
A husband-and-wife recording studio became the web's go-to voice-over marketplace — once they flipped who pays.
Will it work? · our read
Durable liquidity. Twenty years of two-sided liquidity and a trusted-escrow brand are hard to clone. The open question is AI: synthetic voices already handle low-end reads and squeeze the mid tier.
01How the money moves
Talent join free, or pay $499/yr for Premium
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Client posts a job; auditions roll in; hires one
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Payment clears SurePay escrow - Voices keeps a platform fee (rate unpublished)
02The numbers
8-figure/yrStatedmembership + 20% fee
2015-04
From an $18K first year to a half-million-member network. SaaS Club — David Ciccarelli
Started at $18K in year one; now tens of millions a year from talent memberships plus a 20% cut on every hire.
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Wikipedia — Voices.com (history, funding, fees)SaaS Club — David Ciccarelli interview (bootstrap, pivot)Voices — talent memberships & 20% platform feeDavid Ciccarelli — bio ($200M+ sales, about $27M raised)Crunchbase — Voices funding ($2M BDC, $18M Morgan Stanley)
Revenue is a first-party band: founder states "tens of millions/yr" and $200M+ lifetime sales (GMV, not revenue). Wikipedia cites about $70M (2025); Latka's $170M looks inflated, so we distrust it. Documented funding is $2M BDC (2015) plus $18M Morgan Stanley (2017) = $20M; founder bio claims about $27M total, so about $7M is unconfirmed and we flag that gap. The 20% fee plus talent memberships are confirmed first-party. Company began operations 2003, officially incorporated 2004 (some secondary sources say 2005) — hedged with "about." Client segments are role-based, not named brands, to avoid overclaiming. The AI-substitution risk is our read on a documented TTS trend. We never score you.