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Unbabel

Winter 2014 · Acquired

AI-powered Language Operations platform

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2013

Team size: 350

About

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.

Founders

  • Vasco PedroFounder/CEO

    Vasco Pedro is a co-founder and chief executive officer of Unbabel, a company that removes language barriers by blending artificial intelligence with real-time, human translations. A serial entrepreneur, Vasco has led Unbabel since 2013, taking it through Y Combinator and raising a total of $100 million in funding.

  • João GraçaFounder/CTO

    João Graça is the Co-Founder & CTO of Unbabel. João has a Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing and was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also one of the co-founders of the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS) and has authored several papers in machine learning with side information, unsupervised learning and machine translation. João Graça is the Co-Founder & CTO of Unbabel. João has a Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing and was a Post-Doctoral Researc

  • Bruno Prezado SilvaFounder/Lead Designer

  • Hugo SilvaFounder/Developer