54 Best Translation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Translation Startups

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There are 54 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $40.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$91.2m

Money raised

Unbabel is a company providing a translation as a service platform that allows enterprises to understand and be understood by their customers. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

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$63.1m

Money raised

Orion is a software company that makes a voice-first intelligent communication and automation platform for frontline workers.

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5

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$120.7m

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Hive is an artificial intelligence software company specializing in deep learning and computer vision.

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1

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$300.0m

Money raised

DeepL is a company that develops technology for language translation purposes.

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1

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$65.0m

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Nutritas is a biotechnology company using artificial intelligence to help discover bioactive peptides.

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2

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$11.5m

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Language I/O provides software that allows for multilingual customer support in 150 languages. Language I/O automates the translation of customer support content such as FAQs, emails and chat.

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$106.0m

Money raised

Lokalise is a web-based translation system

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4

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$53.2m

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An artificial Intelligence company with software that can translate voice tracks on videos. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2017.

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$1.6m

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Verbalize It is a New York-based company founded in 2014 by Kunal Sarda.

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$18.0m

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Gengo is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2008 by Robert W. Laing.

3

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$130.0m

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Cadence is a company founded in 1998.

5

Funding Rounds

$223.1m

Money raised

Smartling is a company founded in 2009 by Jack Welde.

4

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$140.3m

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Software offering autonomous speech and voice recognition for live and recorded media.

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4

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$46.6m

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lengoo is the future of translation. A full-service technology platform for customer-specific machine translation using Neural networks.

3

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$89.5m

Money raised

Lilt is a company founded in 2015 by Spence Green.

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$4.5m

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Rev is a company founded in 2010 by Josh Breinlinger, Jason Chicola, David Abrameto, Dan Kokotov, Mark Chen and Paul Huck.

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$42.0m

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Loco is a Earth, Texas-based company.

2

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$11.7m

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Ginger Software is a company founded in 2008 by Yael Karov.

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$33.6m

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Contents.com is an AI-powered multilingual content generation platform founded in 2020.

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$3.0m

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Intento is a Berkeley, California-based company founded in 2016 by Grigory Sapunov.

2

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

Interact.io is a video conferencing company.

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$1.3m

Money raised

Transfluent is a company founded in 2011 by Elina Lepomäki, Jani Penttinen, Xiaowen Sun and Ville Miettinen.

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$66.0m

Money raised

Flow.io is an Hoboken, New Jersey-based company founded in 2015.

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$3.3m

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We are a platform where clients and linguists meet to connect cultures and celebrate diversity through languages.

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$600.0k

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Dakwak is a Jordan-based company founded in 2010 by Waheed Barghouthi.

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$2.5m

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Pat Inc is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2015 by John Ball.

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$1.2m

Money raised

Lingua Custodia is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2011 by Olivier Debeugny.

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TripLingo is an Atlanta-based company founded in 2011 by Jesse Maddox, Pratik Patel and Vince Baskerville.

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Blockchain company

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$2.8m

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SmartCAT is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2016.

2

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$100.0m

Money raised

No-code translation platform for websites with a simple, user-friendly interface.

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$32.3m

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Tomedes is a professional translation services founded in 2007 by Ofer Tirosh.

$16.0m

Money raised

Memsource is a cloud-based translation platform.

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$400.0k

Money raised

Ai-Media is a Sydney-based company founded in 2003 by Tony Abrahams.

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1

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$400.0k

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Keego is a translation company founded in 2014.

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3

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$2.6m

Money raised

Lingotek is a Lehi, Utah-based company founded in 2006.

1

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$2.5m

Money raised

Tech.Co is a Las Vegas-based company founded in 2006 by Jen Consalvo, Frank Gruber and Eric Olson.

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$1.7m

Money raised

Eden AI is an AI integration platform founded in 2021.

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$14.0m

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A company making a suite of Arabic language software applications

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$600.0k

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tolingo is a translation company founded by Hanno Decken.

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$354.0k

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Cloud-based SaaS solution for game developers to localize their products faster and more cost-effectively.

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1

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$100.0k

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Bablic is a website translation simplified founded in 2014 by Roi Ronn, Ishai Jaffe and Gabriele Manasse.

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2

Funding Rounds

$480.0k

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conyac is a Chiyoda, Tokyo-based company founded by Naoki Yamada.

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$800.0k

Money raised

Dubverse is an India-based company.

2

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$5.9m

Money raised

KeyPoint Technologies is a translation company founded in 2020.

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$60.0k

Money raised

MarkTheGlobe is a Salzburg-based company founded in 2010 by Matthias Zeitler.

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Funding Rounds

$20.7k

Money raised

VideoTranslator.ai is an Australia-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

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Tarjama is a translation company founded in 2008.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

Inwhatlanguage is a Salt Lake City-based company founded in 2011.

1

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$150.0m

Money raised

Lionbridge is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company.

1

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$250.0k

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MOSAIC is a Vancouver-based translation company.

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$3.1m

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twago - teamwork across global offices is a Germany-based company.

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$160.0m

Money raised

Lyuno-SDI Group is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 1974.

1

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$100.0k

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Hand Talk is a translation company.

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