Saturday, December 04, 2021

Smartling Raises $160m from Battery Ventures - translation internet services




Smartling, the creator of a cloud translation management and automation platform, has raised a $160 million growth investment from Battery Ventures. The startup's tech is used by B2B and B2C brands like Shopify and Lyft to localize multilingual content across various devices and platforms


What is this Translation thing

Localize, found businesses that invested in translation were 1.5 times more likely to observe an increase in revenue.


Underlining the opportunity, over 361 million people around the world participate in cross-border ecommerce. A study by Standard Chartered found that nearly half of U.S. businesses today say that their best growth opportunity is outside the U.S. And according to Common Sense Advisory, 76% of buyers say that they prefer to purchase a product with information in their own language when faced with the choice of two similar products.



What Smartling Does


Smartling, which was founded in 2009 by Welde and Andrey Akselrod, is a language translation company that enables customers to localize content across devices and platforms. Smartling leverages a combination of AI-powered translation tools and human translators, localizing content for particular markets to ensure its intended meaning and connotation remains the same — and isn’t misunderstood.



Competition 


Memsource

Localise

Phrase

Transifex 

Crowdin

POEditor 

Globalsight

Smartcar

MemoQserver 

Lilt

Unbabel 

Languagei/o

Appen 


Appen


Appen Limited is a publicly traded data company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under the code APX. Appen provides or improves data used for the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence products.Wikipedia
CEO: Mark Brayan (13 July 2015–)
Founder: Julie Vonwiller
Founded: 1996, Sydney
Headquarters: Chatswood
Number of employees: 1,102 (2020)
Revenue: 599.9 million AUD (2020)


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