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Lango
Lango is a technology-enabled language services company that unifies interpretation, translation, and language access into a single secure platform. Founded in 2016 and launched from Buenos Aires with $15K and a laptop, Lango connects organizations in healthcare, legal, education, and government to on-site, phone, video, and AI-driven interpreting and translation across 200+ languages, including American Sign Language. It serves more than 1,000 customers through its platform and a family of affiliated language companies.
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.
Wordly
Wordly is a San Francisco Bay Area company that delivers cloud-based, AI-powered live translation, captioning, transcription and summaries for meetings and events. Without apps, headsets or human interpreters, attendees scan a QR code and follow along in their own language across 60+ languages and 3,000+ language pairs. Founded in 2017 by Lakshman Rathnam, Wordly serves 4,000+ customers and has supported over 5 million users worldwide, and was ranked among the fastest-growing software companies on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list.