A recycling leaflet can be translated and still get everything wrong. InterEthnica helps public agencies find the gap between sending information and being understood.
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.
AMN began by placing traveling nurses. Forty years later, it sells health systems something broader: the people, software and operating discipline to keep care moving when labor gets scarce, expensive or suddenly unavailable.
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 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.