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Unbabel

AI-powered Language Operations platform

Y CombinatorWinter 2014AcquiredB2BOperations

What they do

Problem

Businesses face language barriers that make it difficult to scale customer communication and content across global markets.

Solution

An AI-powered Language Operations platform that builds scalable translation pipelines combining machine translation and quality estimation with optional human-in-the-loop translation and annotation.

Who it's for

Enterprises and global businesses that need to translate customer support, marketing, and other content across multiple languages.

Founders

Vasco Pedro
Founder/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 Graça
Founder/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 Silva
Founder/Lead Designer
Hugo Silva
Founder/Developer

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