55 Best Translation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Translation Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 55 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $40.3m.

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

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Unbabel logo

Unbabel

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.

7

Funding Rounds

$91.2m

Money raised

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Orion (company)

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

6

Funding Rounds

$63.1m

Money raised

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Hive (machine learning company)

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

5

Funding Rounds

$120.7m

Money raised

DeepL logo

DeepL

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

1

Funding Rounds

$300.0m

Money raised

Nuritas logo

Nuritas

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

1

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

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Language I/O

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.5m

Money raised

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Lokalise

Lokalise is a web-based translation system

3

Funding Rounds

$106.0m

Money raised

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Papercup

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

4

Funding Rounds

$53.2m

Money raised

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Verbalize It

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

2

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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Gengo

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

6

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

Cadence logo

Cadence

Cadence is a company founded in 1998.

3

Funding Rounds

$130.0m

Money raised

Smartling logo

Smartling

Smartling is a company founded in 2009 by Jack Welde.

5

Funding Rounds

$223.1m

Money raised

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Speechmatics

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

4

Funding Rounds

$140.3m

Money raised

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lengoo

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

4

Funding Rounds

$46.6m

Money raised

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Lilt (company)

Lilt is a company founded in 2015 by Spence Green.

3

Funding Rounds

$89.5m

Money raised

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Rev (company)

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

1

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

Viki (television subscription service) logo

Viki (television subscription service)

Viki is a company founded in 2007 by Razmig Hovaghimian, Changseong Ho and Jiwon Moon.

2

Funding Rounds

$24.3m

Money raised

Loco logo

Loco

Loco is a Earth, Texas-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$42.0m

Money raised

Ginger Software logo

Ginger Software

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

2

Funding Rounds

$11.7m

Money raised

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Contents.com

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

9

Funding Rounds

$33.6m

Money raised

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Intento

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

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Interactio (video conferencing company) logo

Interactio (video conferencing company)

Interact.io is a video conferencing company.

2

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

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Transfluent

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

2

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

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Flow.io

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

3

Funding Rounds

$66.0m

Money raised

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EasyTranslate

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

1

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

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Dakwak

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

1

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

Pat Inc logo

Pat Inc

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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Lingua Custodia

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

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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TripLingo

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

1

Funding Rounds

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Bounties Network

Blockchain company

1

Funding Rounds

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SmartCAT

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

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Weglot

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

2

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

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Tomedes

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

1

Funding Rounds

$32.3m

Money raised

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Memsource

Memsource is a cloud-based translation platform.

$16.0m

Money raised

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Ai-Media

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

1

Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

Keego logo

Keego

Keego is a translation company founded in 2014.

1

Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

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Lingotek (company)

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

3

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

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Tech.Co

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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Eden AI

Eden AI is an AI integration platform founded in 2021.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

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Sakhr Software Company

A company making a suite of Arabic language software applications

1

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

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tolingo

tolingo is a translation company founded by Hanno Decken.

3

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

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Localize Direct

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

1

Funding Rounds

$354.0k

Money raised

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Bablic

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

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

Money raised

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conyac

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

2

Funding Rounds

$480.0k

Money raised

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Dubverse

Dubverse is an India-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$800.0k

Money raised

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KeyPoint Technologies

KeyPoint Technologies is a translation company founded in 2020.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.9m

Money raised

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MarkTheGlobe

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

1

Funding Rounds

$60.0k

Money raised

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VideoTranslator.ai

VideoTranslator.ai is an Australia-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.7k

Money raised

Tarjama logo

Tarjama

Tarjama is a translation company founded in 2008.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Inwhatlanguage

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

1

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

Lionbridge logo

Lionbridge

Lionbridge is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0m

Money raised

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MOSAIC

MOSAIC is a Vancouver-based translation company.

1

Funding Rounds

$250.0k

Money raised

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twago - teamwork across global offices

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

2

Funding Rounds

$3.1m

Money raised

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Lyuno-SDI Group

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

1

Funding Rounds

$160.0m

Money raised

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Hand Talk

Hand Talk is a translation company.

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

Money raised