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Ad Astra makes understanding an operation
A Spanish ballot. A signed conversation. A verified interpreter session. Ad Astra puts the practical machinery behind language access in one place.
The Most Important Person in the Room May Be the One You Almost Forgot to Call
Communication Access Partners built a business around a problem most institutions notice only when it becomes urgent: the people in the room cannot understand one another. Three decades, six service lines, and a run of acquisitions later, the small North Carolina firm has become an instructive case in the logistics of being understood.
MultiLingual Technologies Wants AI to Translate. Humans Still Get the Last Word.
The California language company is turning translation, interpreting and training into a connected set of services and software. Its bet: speed is easier to sell when someone remains responsible for the words.
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.
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.