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Cuckoo
Cuckoo is a real-time AI interpreter built for global business conversations. Companies invite Cuckoo into Zoom calls or in-person meetings, and it delivers live translation across 20+ languages while learning each team's internal documents, glossaries, and jargon so technical sales, support, and marketing conversations don't lose meaning between languages. Founded in 2024 by KAIST alumni Yong Hee Lee and Gunwoo Kim, the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch and raised a $1.8M seed round in 2025.
Opalite Health
Opalite Health is a San Francisco-based Y Combinator (W26) startup building an AI-powered, real-time medical interpreter that lets clinicians speak with patients in 150+ languages without waiting for a human interpreter. Founded by physician Cathleen Kuo and former Apple engineer Alex Mehregan, the platform is validated against certified medical interpreters, HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified, and is used daily by hospitals, community health centers, home health organizations, telehealth providers, and clinics across 10+ states.
KUDO
KUDO is a New York-based language technology company that delivers real-time speech translation and interpretation for online, in-person, and hybrid meetings and events. It pairs a global network of roughly 12,000 professional human interpreters with its own patented AI speech-to-speech translation engine, letting people speak and be understood across more than 200 spoken and sign languages on platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex.
XL8.ai
XL8.ai is a Silicon Valley AI company building machine translation purpose-built for media and live events. Founded in 2019 by ex-Google and ex-Apple engineers, it turns video, audio and live speech into accurate subtitles, synthesized dubbing and real-time interpretation across 45+ languages. Its two flagship products - MediaCAT for localization workflows and EventCAT for live multilingual events - are used by language service providers, broadcasters, FAST channels and enterprises in 70+ countries, with the company reporting more than 800,000 hours of content and 2.2+ billion words translated.