Companies
List of machine translation companies
Machine translation companies primarily provide machine translation or technology related to machine translation.
The history of machine translation companies begins in the defence and intelligence sector.
Other players, from technology giants like Meta to translation agencies to the European Union, increasingly build their own machine translation.
Since the advent of statistical machine translation and neural machine translation, there are growth companies backed by venture capital.
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Alexa Translations
2023
Instantmt
2022
Eleven Labs
2021
Vidby
2020
Viva Translate
Raised pre-seed from Blue Ridge Foundation and $4M from General Catalyst, AIX Ventures, Fellows Fund, Hyphen Capital, First Check Ventures and angels
Bering Lab
Funded by NAVER D2 Startup Factory and others
2019
ModelFront
YOUS
Raised $50K from angel investors
XL8
Funded by FuturePlay
2018
ImageTranslate
Zhongke Fanyu Technology
Incubated by the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017
Language I/O
Raised $5.5M from Gutbrain, PBJ, Omega and angels
Panlingua
2016
Kites
Acquired by Zoom in 2021
Intento
Raised $4M from Berkeley Skydeck and angels
LingvaNex
2015
Lilt
Raised $37.5M from Sequoia, Redpoint, XSeed, Zetta and In-Q-Tel
Lexy
Raised from Slow Ventures and dissolved
Japan Patent Translation Co.
2014
Lengoo
Raised $26.6M from INKEF, Redalpine, Polipo, Techstars, Creathor, Piton and angels
2013
Unbabel
Raised $91.2M from Caixa, Samsung, Scale, Notion, Faber, Greycroft, Structure, M12 and Headline
Iconic Translation Machines
Acquired by SDL/RWS for $20M in 2020
Waverly Labs
Raised $7.1M in crowdfunding
2012
Xiaoniu Fanyi
Raised ¥33M from Shenyang Dehong Chuangzhan, Cretrend Capital, and others
2011
Lingua Custodia
Raised €2.7M from private investors
KantanMT
Acquired by Keywords Studios for €7M in 2019
2009
DeepL
Raised from Benchmark and btov Partners
Safaba
Acquired by Amazon to create Amazon Translate in 2015
Quest Visual
Acquired for its WordLens app by Google Translate in 2014
Yaraku
Raised $1.1M from Advanced Media, So-net, and others
TextShuttle
Raised CHF30K from Venture Kick
2006
Tauyou
Acquired by TransPerfect in 2018
Omniscien Technologies
2005
ModernMT
Acquired by Translated in 2022
2002
Language Weaver
Acquired by SDL/RWS for $42.5M in 2010
2000
Pangeanic
1998
Reverso
1991
Tilde
Granted €98.8K by the European Union
PROMT
Raised from Svarog Capital Advisors in 2008
1990
AppTek
Raised from SOS International
1968
SYSTRAN
Owned by STIC and Softbank