Unbabel (YC W14) — AI-powered language operations platform
Unbabel is an AI Centric Language Operations Platform that eliminates language barriers so that businesses can grow across markets. Our platform enables anyone to easily create flexible translation pipelines for any language or type of content in a scalable way.
Unbabel is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2014 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI-powered Language Operations platform. The founders listed are Vasco Pedro (Founder/CEO), João Graça (Founder/CTO), Bruno Prezado Silva (Founder/Lead Designer) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 21, 2013).
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Based: San Francisco, CA, USA; Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; London, England, United Kingdom; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Timișoara, TM, Romania; Cebu City, Central Visayas, Philippines
Based: San Francisco, CA, USA; Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; London, England, United Kingdom; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Timișoara, TM, Romania; Cebu City, Central Visayas, Philippines (source)
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Unbabel is an AI Centric Language Operations Platform that eliminates language barriers so that businesses can grow across markets. Our platform enables anyone to easily create flexible translation pipelines for any language or type of content in a scalable way. The pipelines combine best in class AI components, such as our Machine Translation and Quality Estimation, with different levels of human-in-the-loop capabilities, such as human translation and human annotations. The result is an easy to use, super scalable platform for Language Operations that can easily go from real time translation using adapted machine translation to high end human transcreation.
Based in San Francisco, Unbabel works with hundreds of businesses such as Lego, Logitech, Microsoft, Warner Bros, Virgin Pulse, Booking.com or Under Armour, to communicate effortlessly with customers around the world, no matter what language they speak.
Vasco Pedro
Founder/CEO
João Graça
Founder/CTO
Bruno Prezado Silva
Founder/Lead Designer
Hugo Silva
Founder/Developer
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