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Cuckoo Labs

Winter 2025 · Active

Real-time AI translator for global sales and marketing

Founded: 2024

Team size: 2

About

Cuckoo is a real-time AI translator for global sales, marketing, and support. Companies like Snowflake and PagerDuty use Cuckoo in Zoom and in-person meetings for even the most technical discussions. Cuckoo instantly learns the technical details of your conversation from your keywords and documents and interprets into over 20 languages—customized for your specific industry and organization.

Founders

  • Yong Hee LeeFounder

    Co-founder & CEO, GTM at Cuckoo, AI interpreter for global teams. Before Cuckoo, I was the first GTM at two startups in Korea—one focused on online programming and the other on AI infrastructure—where I also led event marketing involving international speakers. I studied Electrical Engineering and Science & Technology Policy at KAIST.

  • Gunwoo KimFounder

    Co-founder & CTO at Cuckoo, real-time AI translator for global sales & marketing. Before Cuckoo, I built South Korea's fastest-growing ride-hailing app at (1M users in 9 months), which was faster than Uber Korea. Studied CS at KAIST.