Multilingual AI Writer Jasper Valued at USD 1.5 Billion in Series A
Among the dozens of AI writing tools built on GPT-3 and launched over the past year, Jasper takes the funding crown as it pockets USD 125m in a unicorn-making series A.
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Wyoming Multilingual Customer Support Provider Receives First Seed Round
Language I/O, a women-founded and Wyoming-based startup, has closed a seed round for an undisclosed amount.
App Localization Startup Lang Among Y Combinator’s 2019 Summer Batch
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.
New DeepL CEO on Customer Service and Human-in-the-Loop Translation
Interview with new DeepL CEO Jaroslaw Kutylowski about Europe focus, customer service, and the role of professional translators as machine translation improves.
Toptranslation CEO: ‘The Future Belongs to Tech-driven Language Service Providers’
The three success factors for Language Service Providers processing growing volumes of digital text in smaller batches and with shorter turnaround times.
The Translation Startup EcoSystem According to AngelList
How many translation startups are still active? How many have shut down? Where are they located and what are the common startup ideas? Here’s a look at the translation startup ecosystem in the language services market according to AngelList.
How Quora Is Scaling Q&A Across the Globe
Quora’s Head of Product Internationalization, Shreyes Seshasai, explains how they are building an effective localization system that delivers high-quality translations with minimal friction and why slowing down an engineer by 5% isn't acceptable.
Remote Interpretation Startup SpeakUS Raises EUR 50k Angel Round
SpeakUS, a remote interpretation startup focusing on events, raises angel funding from an Irish state agency. It will use the fresh capital mostly for marketing.
Remote Interpreting Startup Cadence Translate Raises USD 0.65m in Seed Round
Remote interpreting startup Cadence Translate raises funds in a seed round from private Chinese investors, including Dianping CEO and Fosun’s HR Head. Current round brings total funding to just over USD 1m.
Unbabel Raises USD 5m in Series A Round
San Francisco and Portugal-based Unbabel raises USD 5m from Notion Capital and Caixa Capital to build out its heavy on tech, light on humans model. CEO says, despite recent progress, the quality gap between neural machine translation and human translation is still huge.
Berlin Rising: City’s Emergence as Tech Hub Drives Localization
As Berlin attracts ever more entrepreneurs and continues to move up the rankings, the city’s rise as a European technology hub proves a boon to localization providers, such as text&form, which help startups go global.
Rozetta Pays USD 14m for Tokyo Translation Crowdsourcer Conyac
Signs of life in the Japanese startup world, as two co-founders of translation crowdsourcing platform Conyac sell to language service provider Rozetta for USD 14m in cash and stock deal.
The VCs Keep Giving: San Francisco-based Localize Raises $1.1M
Three-year old startup Localize secures breakthrough $1.1 million seed funding from eight Investors including TechStars and Kima Ventures.
Apps in the East: Asian Translation Startups Rising
Asia appears to be sprouting a lot of translation startups: WOVN.io, Reverie, OneSky, Linqapp, HitsEnglish, Gengo, Conyac, and Flitto.
Disruption In Progress: 10 Years and 190 Translation Startups
Big Niche: Translation and Localization Captures the Imagination of 190 Start-Ups in 10 years.
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