Unbabel
AI-powered Language Operations platform
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PinchW25AI Voice Translation for live conversations or mediaShared: translationActive
FragmentS23Turn manual operations into scalable processesShared: operation, scalable, humanAcquired
QuetzalS24Simple, LLM-first translation and internationalization for softwareShared: translation, language, poweredActive
EzDubsW23Real-time speech translationShared: translation, language, speakAcquired
MagnaPlayW23AI-powered game translation.Shared: translation, poweredActive
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About Unbabel
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.
San Francisco, CA, USA; Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; London, England, United Kingdom; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Timișoara, TM, Romania; Cebu City, Central Visayas, Philippines
Unbabel: questions
Which YC batch was Unbabel in?
Unbabel was in Y Combinator's Winter 2014 batch (W14).
Is Unbabel still active?
Y Combinator lists Unbabel as acquired.
Where is Unbabel based?
Unbabel lists San Francisco, CA, USA; Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; London, England, United Kingdom; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Timișoara, TM, Romania; Cebu City, Central Visayas, Philippines as its location on YC's directory.
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