Smartling offers an Enterprise Translation Cloud that combines AI and machine learning with a marketplace of professional translators to manage end-to-end localization. Its translation management system provides controls, compliance, integrations, and analytics to support global content workflows. The platform is used by hundreds of B2B and B2C brands, including IHG Hotels & Resorts, Shopify, Momentive (formerly SurveyMonkey) and Lyft. Smartling works with thousands of translators to ensure translated content retains meaning, nuance, and market-appropriate localization. The company has been recognized by CSA Research and by users on G2 as a leading Translation Management System. It is headquartered in New York and has offices in Dublin and London. Smartling provides a cloud-based enterprise platform for translation management, enabling companies to quickly translate and deploy websites, dynamic web applications, mobile apps and business documents across corporate digital infrastructure. The platform serves billions of page views per month in more than 100 languages and counts customers such as Dropbox, Foursquare, GoPro, Pinterest, Spotify, SurveyMonkey, Tesla Motors, Uber and Vimeo. Smartling was founded in 2009 and is led by CEO Jack Welde. The company intends to use the funding to expand operations in the U.S. and abroad and to enhance its translation management platform with expanded support for leading content management, e-commerce, marketing automation and CRM platforms. It plans to grow its employee base in 2014 with more than 50 new hires across New York, Boston and Dublin, Ireland. The article does not disclose specific revenue figures. Smartling offers a cloud-based translation and localization platform that gives enterprises real-time visibility and control over translation projects. The platform supports multiple translation methods — agencies, freelance translators, volunteer communities, internal teams, and machine translation — and lets clients choose the best method and quality for each project. It is enterprise-ready with HIPAA, PCI Level 1 and SOC 2 certifications and is used by large consumer web and mobile companies as well as Global 2000 customers. Notable clients listed include Shutterstock, Pinterest, Vimeo, Dropbox, Spotify, GoPro, TED, SurveyMonkey, Uber, Hightail, Optimizely, Glassdoor, Limelight Networks and Twilio. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate growth, invest in development and delivery of new products and services, and expand global operations. Smartling provides a cloud-based, SEO-friendly realtime website translation platform with a hybrid model that lets customers choose professional translators, machine translation, or crowdsourced translations. The company has served customers including Foursquare, SurveyMonkey, and Scribd. Smartling announced an app that will be offered to all CloudFlare users, combining CloudFlare's security and performance services with Smartling's translation capabilities. CloudFlare is using Smartling to translate its website and application into 27 languages to start, with German, Indonesian, Portuguese and Norwegian sites already underway. The article describes this as the first partnership of this kind for Smartling. Financially, Smartling just raised $10 million in new funding, though the article does not specify the investors or the instruments used. Smartling builds a realtime website translation tool to help sites serve non-English users. It uses a hybrid model that lets customers choose between professional translators, machine translation, and crowdsourced translations. Smartling’s software manages those workflows and lets customers pick which parts of a site are translated by which method. The company positions this approach as a balance of speed, cost, and accuracy compared with professional-only services or free machine translation. Smartling, which only started last year, raised a $4 million Series A led by Venrock with participation from U.S. Venture Partners, First Round Capital, and several angels. The new funding is intended to expand the company’s operations.

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$223M

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5

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Equity

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Dec 2021