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Bridgehead Media knows the local version.
A global brand can translate every word and still miss the point. Bridgehead Media builds local creative teams to help the message land.
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.
Acclaro sells the space between words
AI can translate a sentence. Getting a global business to speak coherently takes a little more plumbing. Acclaro has built a business around that gap.
Jack Welde and the trouble with a perfectly good word
A software engineer, a former Air Force pilot, and a student of language, Jack Welde built Smartling around a familiar frustration: reaching the world is easier than making yourself understood.
e2f and the business of being right
First came translation. Then came training data. Now, as TrustScale, e2f is betting that the next valuable thing in AI is evidence.
QuillBot found a business in the sentence you almost wrote
A college project became a writing business by giving people another way to say what they meant. Now QuillBot is betting that the same audience wants help creating much more than sentences.
Steve Stoute Bet His Career on What the Music Business Couldn't Hear
He walked away from the record business to study advertising, then came back with a different proposition: artists should keep the work, know the audience and own the upside.
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.
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.