Smartling

The company was founded in 2009 by Jack Welde[1] and Andrey Akselrod.[2] In 2012 the company received its first funding beyond bootstrapping with an angel investment of $1.5 million.[3] Its Series A funding was $4 million, and its Series B was $10 million.[1] In its Series C funding it received an additional $24 million,[4] and in its Series D it raised an additional $25 million.[5] The company’s valuation upon its Series D was $250 million.[2] The company is headquartered in New York City.[3] In 2016 Smartling acquired VerbalizeIt, a firm producing translations for companies in the process of expanding internationally. The founders of the company and its staff joined Smartling as a part of the acquisition.[6] Smartling also acquired Jargon in 2016, a company involved in the localization of mobile apps.[3]

Smartling translates digital content into foreign languages through automated processes,[7] as new content on client sites is flagged for translation and sent to translators for rewriting.[2] When changes to the original language are detected, all foreign-language versions of the website or app are automatically flagged for translation within the platform.[1] The changes are then delivered to front-end users through the back end of a client’s system.[8][9]

In addition to its translation platform, the company works with a few thousand translators to provide translation services, in addition to its in-house staff of about 160. The process involves translation, followed by a translation review, legal review, and editing.[2] The company does text translations, in addition to audio and video translations.[10] Its enterprise platform and translation services are cloud-based.[11] In addition to translation services, Smartling also developed its "Mobile Localization Solution" and "Mobile Delivery Network" platforms for routine updating of text variances on updated app versions.[12]

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