翻译技术速递Translated Receives $25 Million Investment
Translated公司获得2500万美元投资
The Italy and U.S.-based language service provider Translated announced on June 30 that it has recently received a $25 million investment from Ardian, one of the largest private equity funds based in Europe. Translated is well-known for its translation software ModernMT which employs neural machine translation (NMT) technology. Over the last two decades, Translated has worked with more than 200,000 clients, and has seen major growth in the last five years, with a consistent 30% organic growth rate year-on-year.
“We believe that allowing everyone to understand and be understood is one of the greatest challenges of humankind,” said Marco Trombetti, co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Translated. “We feel the urgency to solve this problem, because the more people understand each other the easier it will be for humanity to achieve any other great challenge.”
Translated was first founded by Trombetti and Isabelle Andrieu in 1999 with an investment of just $100 — used to purchase an internet domain and online advertising. Since then, Translated has seen a significant degree of growth and improvement as a company — in 2015, Translated received a TAUS Innovation Excellence Award and was listed among the 1,000 fastest growing companies in Europe by the Financial Times back in 2017.
“I am thrilled for the milestones reached so far, thanks to our determination, hard work, and wonderful team of people that have given their time and talent to bet on us,” Andrieu said.
Leadership of the Ardian Growth team noted that Translated’s emphasis on using artificial intelligence-based technologies makes it a particularly innovative company with lots of room for growth. “Translated has shaken up a market historically dominated by only a few players,” said Bertrand Schapiro, director of Ardian Growth.
“We decided to partner with Ardian because they share with us the love for diversity, they are capable of accelerating our plans and they have the DNA and means to do so in the long term,” Trombetti said.
总部位于意大利和美国的语言服务提供商Translated公司于6月30号宣布，它最近获得了总部位于欧洲的最大私募股权基金之一Ardian的2500万美元投资。Translated公司以其采用神经机器翻译(NMT)技术的翻译软件ModernMT而闻名。在过去的二十年里，Translated公司已经与超过200,000个客户合作，并且在过去的五年里与客户合作数量取得了重大的增长，保持了30%的同比有机增长率。
Translated公司的联合创始人兼首席执行官Marco Trombetti说：“我们认为，让每个人都能理解他人和被他人理解是人类面临的最大的挑战之一。“我们感知到解决这一问题十分紧迫，因为人们越了解彼此，人类就越容易实现其他任何巨大挑战。”
1999年，Trombetti和Isabelle Andrieu初创了Translated，当时的投资仅为100美元，这100美元是用于购买互联网域名和在线广告的。自那以后，Translated作为一家公司得到了明显的进步和改善--2015年，Translated公司获得了TAUS创新卓越奖，并在2017年被英国《金融时报》列入欧洲1000家增长最快的公司之列。
Andrieu说：“由于我们有坚定的的决心，一直辛勤工作，以及拥有出色的团队，并且团队成员付出了他们的时间和才华来押注于我们公司，我们取得了里程碑式的成就。对此，我感到十分激动。”
Ardian Growth团队的领导指出，Translated强调正是使用了基于人工智能的技术，才使其成为一家格外具有创新性的公司，这家公司也有很大的提升空间。Ardian Growth公司主管Bertrand Schapiro说：“翻译行业已经撼动了历史上由为数不多的几家公司主导的市场。
特龙贝蒂说：“我们决定与Ardian合作，是因为他们和我们一样热爱多样性，并且他们有能力加速我们完成计划的进度，他们有DNA和方法并且能够持续做到这一点。”
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