# Vasco Pedro

> Vasco Calais Pedro is a Portuguese entrepreneur and language technology researcher based in Lisbon. He co-founded Unbabel in 2013 and led it as CEO through its August 2025 acquisition by TransPerfect. He now leads Spinnable AI, which develops autonomous AI workers for businesses. His education includes a University of Lisbon degree and graduate study at Carnegie Mellon, where he completed his doctorate in 2009.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Spinnable AI
- **Organizations:** Spinnable AI, Unbabel, Bueda, Dezine, Carnegie Mellon University, Beta-i
- **From:** Lisbon, Portugal
- **Nationality:** Portuguese
- **Education:** Licenciatura in Language and Knowledge Engineering, University of Lisbon, Master of Science in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, PhD in Language and Information Technologies; dissertation: Federated Ontology Search, Carnegie Mellon University
- **Known for:** Completed doctoral research in federated ontology search at Carnegie Mellon., Co-founded and led Unbabel from its 2013 founding through its 2025 acquisition., Led Unbabel during its $60 million Series C funding round in 2019.

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Completed his Carnegie Mellon doctorate; his archived research page records him as CEO of Pittsburgh startup Bueda.
- **2013** — Co-founded Unbabel in Lisbon with João Graça, Sofia Pessanha, Bruno Silva and Hugo Silva.
- **2014** — Unbabel participated in Y Combinator Winter 2014.
- **2019** — Unbabel raised a $60 million Series C round.
- **2021** — Unbabel acquired Lingo24.
- **2023** — Unbabel acquired EVS Translations and Bablic.
- **2025-08** — TransPerfect announced its acquisition of Unbabel on August 22; Pedro initially remained to oversee integration.
- **2025-09** — Announced a new stealth AI startup.
- **2025-11** — Publicly introduced Spinnable AI alongside co-founders Gil Coelho and Fábio Kepler.
- **2026-09** — Listed as a speaker with Gil Coelho at a Lisbon AI Week session on AI workers.

## Achievements

- Completed doctoral research in federated ontology search at Carnegie Mellon.
- Co-founded and led Unbabel from its 2013 founding through its 2025 acquisition.
- Led Unbabel during its $60 million Series C funding round in 2019.
- Built Spinnable AI following the Unbabel acquisition.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Listed with Gil Coelho as a speaker at the September 24 Lisbon AI Week session What Can AI Workers Do for Your Business? The listing does not independently establish attendance.
- **2025-11** — Introduced Spinnable AI publicly; launch coverage reported €2 million in pre-seed funding.
- **2025-09** — Announced a new role founding a stealth AI startup.
- **2025-08** — TransPerfect acquired Unbabel; Pedro initially stayed to oversee integration.

## Links

- Website: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vasco/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vascopedro/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/justvasco

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Last updated: 2026-10-27