Hong Kong’s HeterMedia Invests EUR 1 Million in TMS Provider Wordbee
Hong Kong financial printing and document services company HeterMedia buys 22% stake in Luxembourg-based translation...
Investment & funding
Startup investment from pre-seed funding to IPO.
German LSP lengoo Raises EUR 6.0m Series A from Redalpine, Angel Investors
Germany-based language service provider lengoo secures EUR 6.0m in Series A funding, targets scale with...
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...
Appen and Lionbridge Will Have to Compete Against This Latest Unicorn Startup
AI support services startup Scale AI uses a combination of crowd and automation to label...
Language Data Startup UTH Raises Series C From China Big Tech
Backed by big China tech, language data startup UTH International raised a Series C, bringing...
Korea’s Flitto Raises USD 23m in IPO
Korean language services and data company Flitto raises USD 23m in IPO on electronic trading...
Lingua Custodia Raises USD 1.3m Ahead of Luxembourg Launch
Financial machine translation company Lingua Custodia raises USD 1.3m with help of angel investor platform;...
Indonesian NLP Startup Halosis Raises USD 1.2m
Jakarta-based natural language processing startup Halosis raises USD 1.2m angel investment to scale Bahasa Indonesia...
State-Sponsored Speech Recognition: China’s iFlytek Raises USD 400m in ‘Private’ Placement
Chinese language technology and voice recognition company iFlytek raises over two billion yuan from state...
New Language Industry IPO as Korea’s Flitto Prepares for Scalability-Based Listing
First, Appen. Now, Flitto. Language data startup Flitto, which is about to list on Korean...
TransPerfect Refinances USD 445M Loan Used in 2017 Buyout, Gears Up for M&A
TransPerfect cuts annual interest bill by USD 15m as it refinances loan used to secure...
Interprefy Valuation Doubles to USD 21m After Latest Funding Round
Remote simultaneous interpreting company Interprefy valued at USD 21m as Swiss startup completes sixth and...
Synthesia Raises USD 3.1m for Lip-Sync Technology That Could Change Dubbing
UK-based AI video production startup Synthesia, which uses synthetically-generated face masks to reanimate speech movements,...
Automated Transcription Provider Trint Secures USD 4.5m in Series A
AI-based transcription provider Trint has increased its total funding raised to USD 7.8m, with the...