Top Translation Startups in 2024

LILT is a language translation services and technology company. We're building the next generation of localization, making it possible for every organization to communicate with their customers in the language of their choice through LILT's high-quality, scalable, and affordable translation services. We recruit the world's best human translators and equip them with our software, allowing them to translate better and faster than ever. By combining human expertise and machine efficiency in a complete enterprise localization solution, we can deliver technology-enabled translation services to our customers. Lilt is backed by some of the world's leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and Redpoint. Our customers include some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the world who rely on Lilt every day to provide more personal customer experiences in 300+ languages. Our team is headquartered in the Bay Area with additional hubs in Indianapolis, Washington DC, Berlin, Dublin, and the UK.

Bootstrapped, profitable since day 1. We are building the #1 Audiovisual Platform by combining AI with trusted language experts to produce high-quality transcriptions, subtitles, and closed captions at speed. Transcription and subtitling services are required in many different industries to support today’s international business landscape, and whilst this sounds simple, it is often difficult to find an effective solution. Whilst there are many transcription and subtitling services online, they are usually expensive when accurate, inaccurate when cheap, and lack the tools that companies need to apply them effectively. Happy Scribe provides an AI-driven transcription and subtitling service online, allowing users to translate its automated services across over 60 languages, integrate and apply it through an interactive editing tool, and integrate it with APIs such as Youtube's closed captions. The company claims its automated AI-driven solution is up to 85% accurate, but users can pay for human-interrupted services to reach 99%+ accuracy. Whilst Happy Scribe will inevitably face competition from existing transcription solutions, the company still shows a cutting edge by providing an end-to-end online workflow and deployment toolkit. Furthermore, by employing a workforce of translators and language experts, the company’s human-interrupted AI transcription solution goes beyond the language capabilities of existing services.

Lokalise is the fastest-growing language-tech B2B SaaS. Our goal is to eliminate the hassle of localization by providing tools to automate, integrate, and better manage translations. Lokalise is a better way for growth-minded businesses to expand their mobile apps, games, software, or digital content into multiple languages. Launched in 2017, Lokalise is a remote-only, series-B funded, tech scale-up that works with awesome customers like Starbucks, Revolut, and Amazon. And we're not done yet - now, we are breaking barriers. We are breaking the barrier to prosperity using language. How do we do this? With our amazing team! Our global team of highly dedicated and ambitious people operates like a professional sports team. We continuously support each other, and we always favor our teams’ success over individual egos.

TELUS International AI Data Solutions Creating and enhancing the world's data to enable better AI via human intelligence We help companies test and improve machine learning models via our global AI Community of 1 million+ annotators and linguists. Our proprietary Ground Truth AI training platform handles all data types across 500+ languages and dialects. Our AI Data Solutions vastly enhance AI systems across a range of applications from advanced smart products, to better search results, to expanded speech recognition, to more human-like bot interactions and so much more. TELUS International values people diversity and grants equal opportunity regardless of age, civil status, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion and political beliefs, sex or sexual orientation.

Welocalize is a company that provides services to transform content into multiple languages. We have a network of over 250,000 linguistic resources and operate in North America, Europe, and Asia. We offer high-quality training data solutions for machine learning by combining technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all types of content.

• Legal Translation Services including notarising and procurement of Apostille when necessary • Video Translation Services including subtitling, post-production assistance, etc. • Website Translation Services including bespoke web design, typesetting, CMS management, etc. • Mobile Application Translation Services for Android, iPhone and Windows mobile applications • Much more!

At TransLinguist, we love multilingual content and our desire to deliver tailor crafted language solutions! This triggers our drive to build & deploy an AI-powered SaaS solution that enables our clients with a clear, concise and streamlined E2E localisation approach.

Translated is a Language Service Provider that manages more than 73.000 professional translators in over 110 countries. Since 1999, human and machine translation services have been available through its website and API. Translated uses NLP and AI to make translators’ life easier by minimizing repetitive tasks and making customers happier by reducing traditional agency intermediation. Translated has created MyMemory, the world’s largest translation memory, that combines machine translation with over 600 million human contributions. Translated uses MyMemory to increase the quality and speed of translation by suggesting sentences that have already been translated to translators. To identify the correct translator for each job, Translated has developed T-Rank an algorithm that matches the document to translate against ~30 criteria including translator speciality, real time availability and past performance evaluation from the 250.000+ translations Translated has delivered to date.

DataForce by TransPerfect is part of the TransPerfect family of companies, the world’s largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business, with offices in more than 100 cities worldwide. We offer high-quality data for Human-Machine Interaction to some of the most prestigious technology companies in the world. Our division focuses on gathering, enriching and processing data for Machine Learning in different AI domains. To learn more about DataForce please visit us at transperfect.com/dataforce

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