Top 12 Machine Translation startups

Updated: Mar 07, 2026
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These startups use AI for language translation tools that are used either for text translation or for live chat/voice communication.
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DeepL
Country: Germany | Funding: $400M
DeepL creates AI platform for translation to over 100 languages. It includes free online service that accurately translates text, files, and speech, as well as a SaaS solution for businesses. The company uses its own massive language model, trained by professional linguists, to deliver high accuracy and a personalized approach. The enterprise version accommodates business specifics and guarantees data security. It also includes DeepL Agent, which automates multilingual work tasks and understands instructions in your native language. Specifically, the AI ​​assistant can work in team chat, facilitate collaboration between international teams and fill out forms in business systems. DeepL also provides API for integrating translation functions into business applications.
2
Lilt
Country: USA | Funding: $162.9M
Lilt is a technology company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered enterprise language software.
3
SmartCat
Country: USA | Funding: $71.9M
Smartcat covers all your language needs with AI translation, AI content generation and AI human workflows. Its client-tailored language AI turns content in any format into any language, from documents to videos to complex websites and software, making global operations simple for any corporate team.
4
Lengoo
Country: Germany | Funding: $36.6M
lengoo is the future of translation. A full-service technology platform for customer-specific machine translation using Neural networks.
5
XL8
Country: South Korea | Funding: $21.2M
XL8 is an AI company that offers NLP services, specialized in the media localization area, including machine translation and ASR.
6
Lingua Custodia
Country: France | Funding: €15.1M
Lingua Custodia is the provider of VERTO, a SaaS-based, customizable machine translation software for the financial industry. The translation software is built using several statistical tables based on general language data and uses machine learning to train with the documents that were already translated to learn the industry-specific terminology.
7
Ollang
Country: USA | Funding: $1.6M
Ollang is a 1-stop shop platform that leverages GenAI to provide cutting-edge AI dubbing and accurate subtitle translations, enhancing multimedia content for global audiences
8
TextGears
Country: Estonia | Funding: $0.5M
TextGears provide AI-empowered text analysis, autocorrection, paraphrasing and automated translation services in 12 languages.
9
Bahasa Kita
Country: Indonesia
Bahasa Kita (PT. Bahasa Kinerja Utama) is a company that focuses on developing products based on speech recognition technology artificial intelligence, and natural language processing (NLP) such as automatic speech recognition, machine translation, text to speech, voice biometrics, sentiment analysis, topic detection and clustering, etc.
10
MachineTranslation.com
Country: Israel
Making machine translation accessible and reliable for everyone. We seek to achieve this by leveraging the latest advances in AI and machine learning. The only machine translator aggregator utilizing AI to rank the quality of each translation.
11
Video Dubber
Country: India
VideoDubber is a leading AI-first service made for Youtubers, Businesses and Content Creators in general by AI Scientists
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VideoDubber
Country: India
VideoDubber.ai is an AI-powered video dubbing and translation tool with lip-sync, voice cloning, and unlimited free edits — 20x cheaper than ElevenLabs.
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