# Josh Daneshforooz

> Josh Daneshforooz is the co-founder and CEO of Lango, an Austin-based, AI-enabled language services company that has scaled by acquiring seven businesses across the United States. Raised by an Iranian Muslim father and an American Christian mother, he trained as a theologian at Harvard, served as a Harvard Leadership Fellow, and pivoted from interfaith peacemaking and leadership consulting to building software that knits interpretation, translation and human expertise into a single workflow for over 1,000 customers.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Lango
- **Organizations:** Lango, Cornerstone Leadership Development, All Nations Education, Omina Leadership Consulting, Dine & Feed, Harvard Kennedy School (Teaching Fellow)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, Philosophy, Westmont College, Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Teaching Fellow (Leadership, Public Narrative, Community Organizing), Harvard Kennedy School
- **Known for:** Built Lango from a 2016 startup to a tech-enabled language services leader serving 1,000+ customers, Executed seven acquisitions across the US language services industry, Won first place at a Stanford pitch competition presenting Lango's AI product vision

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Completed Master of Theological Studies at Harvard; became a Harvard Leadership Fellow
- **2011** — Authored Loving Our Religious Neighbors: Fruit of the Spirit In a Multi-Religious Culture
- **2012-2015** — Founding partner at Cornerstone Leadership Development; consultant with Omina Leadership Consulting advising UN members and diplomats
- **2015** — Founded Dine & Feed, a restaurant-driven anti-hunger platform
- **2016** — Co-founded Lango with Sumita Mavros
- **2019** — Lango raised Seed round
- **2023-2025** — Lango scales via acquisition of seven language-services companies across the US
- **2025** — Lango adopts Intuit Enterprise Suite; speeds month-end close by 66%

## Achievements

- Built Lango from a 2016 startup to a tech-enabled language services leader serving 1,000+ customers
- Executed seven acquisitions across the US language services industry
- Won first place at a Stanford pitch competition presenting Lango's AI product vision
- Selected as a Harvard Leadership Fellow
- Author of a published book on interfaith family life and peacemaking
- Taught executives, entrepreneurs and diplomats at the Harvard Kennedy School

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Lango profiled by Intuit for adopting Intuit Enterprise Suite and cutting month-end close time by 66% on an AI-native ERP
- **2024** — Lango continued its acquisition-led growth strategy, expanding its US footprint to seven acquired businesses

## Links

- Website: https://lango.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-daneshforooz-127843b/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/langomobile
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14GELEkM6cw
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshdaneshforooz/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jdforooz/

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Last updated: 2026-06-30