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Lilt

AI solution for enterprise translation and content creation

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201-500 employees
  • B2B
  • Languages
  • Communication
  • SaaS
Emeryville, CA

Company mission

To make the world's information accessible to everyone regardless of where they were born or which language they speak.

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2% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Widely available tools like Google Translate are not fit for complex, operationally intense processes that require expert translations. Manual methods of yesterday can't scale with the volume of digital information produced in the world today. Lilt works with companies, schools, and government agencies to provide AI-powered enterprise language translation. Lilt’s platform combines a translation management system and neural machine translation with human language experts to create a “human-in-the-loop” approach.

While companies like AI Translate offer intelligent machine translations, they still have linguists fine-tune and correct the texts afterward. With the Lilt platform, AI and humans work in collaboration through the text together, with the AI making real-time sentence suggestions and the linguist reviewing them immediately. This collaboration creates 3-5x better efficiency compared with traditional human-only translation services, aiding in Lilt's substantial rounds of funding.

Clients such as Asics, Canva, and Digital Ocean use Lilt technology for urgent campaigns and large-scale localisation projects. Recently, Lilt launched its V3.5 translation models, which improve quality by 15% to 20%, significantly enhancing translation accuracy and efficiency. Additionally, Lilt appointed a new Chief Revenue Officer to propel growth and scale, emphasising its commitment to expanding its market presence and improving its services further.

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Benefits

  • Compensation: Meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays
  • Medical Benefits: Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus FSA/DFSA, HSA, and Commuter benefits. In addition, LILT pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability
  • Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months
  • Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle

Company values

  • Work together, win together - We collaborate to amplify the impact of our team and our work
  • Find a way or make one - Own it, solve it
  • Stay humble, keep learning - Lifelong learning
  • Quicker than they expect - We have a bias for action
  • Operate with excellence - Excellence comes from deliberate investment of effort and time

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Apr 2022

$55m

SERIES C

May 2020

$25m

SERIES B

Total funding: $91.9m

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Leadership

John DeNero

(Chief Scientist)

Earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Previously Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley for 7 years and Senior Research Scientist at Google for 4 years.

Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Research Assistant - Computer Science at Stanford University for 6 years and Fellow at XSeed Capital for 1 year.

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