Find out about the latest mergers and acquisitions, as well as the latest rounds of investments in leading companies from translation services to language technology
TransPerfect acquires Scheune in Germany and Chulengo in Argentina, continuing its M&A drive in the media localization space. Continue reading
Detailed list of 22 private equity firms invested in some of the world's largest LSPs incl. key people, AUM, year of investment, typical holding period and more. Continue reading
Polish LSP Summa Linguae has secured backing from PE fund, Value4Capital, to finance acquisitions in the US and Canada. Deal sees fund taking majority in LSP. Continue reading
As founder and CEO Melinda Paras prepares to step down, the interpreting technology company is transferring ownership of the company to its employees. Continue reading
Chinese e-learning provider Youdao files to go public in New York, seeking to raise USD 300m. Youdao’s suite of products centers around online dictionaries and machine translation tools. Continue reading
TransPerfect acquires France-based media localization provider Lylo and three smaller players in a move to compete at scale in media localization. Continue reading
Language services and tech startup Unbabel raises massive USD 60m Series C from Point72 Ventures as it takes lead among emerging group of language industry AI agencies. Continue reading
Hong Kong financial printing and document services company HeterMedia buys 22% stake in Luxembourg-based translation management system Wordbee for EUR 1m. Continue reading
IYUNO Media Group and BTI Studios combine forces to become (the new) IYUNO Media Group in a merger that will have a major impact on the media localization landscape. Continue reading
Germany-based language service provider lengoo secures EUR 6.0m in Series A funding, targets scale with NMT and post-editing for mature enterprise customers. Continue reading
Language service provider TransPerfect acquires game localization specialist MoGi Group to expand within the highly specialized and growing niche. Continue reading
Naxicap exits European language service provider Acolad. Private equity fund Qualium Investissement takes minority stake as Acolad CEO’s family reinvests to become majority owner. Continue reading
With its MT and post-editing toolkit for developers, web and app localization startup Lang gets USD 150,000 in initial funding from business incubator Y Combinator. Continue reading
AI support services startup Scale AI uses a combination of crowd and automation to label data incl. NLP, putting it in direct competition with Appen and Lionbridge. Continue reading
Backed by big China tech, language data startup UTH International raised a Series C, bringing total funds raised to about USD 30m. Continue reading
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