# 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.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, California, United States
- **Founders:** Tim Jung (Co-Founder & CEO (former Tech Lead/Manager at Google)), Jay Park (Co-Founder & CTO (former Apple Software Engineer))
- **Team size:** ~22 employees
- **Products:** MediaCAT, MediaCAT Projects, EventCAT, EventCAT Conference, EventCAT Online Meeting
- **Notable:** MediaCAT won the AI & Data category at the 2024 Product Awards hosted by Products That Count., Holds TPN Gold Shield status and SOC 2 Type II certification for content security., Reported 800,000+ hours of content and 2.2+ billion words translated across 45+ languages.

## Products & services

- **MediaCAT** — An AI-driven media localization workflow platform built on three activities - Speech-to-Text transcription (Sync), Machine Translation (Translate) and Synthesized Voice (Dub). Streamlines media upload to finished subtitled or dubbed output with automated quality checks. Serves LSPs, media companies, social creators and B2C users.
- **MediaCAT Projects** — Next-generation collaborative localization platform (Projects / Projects 2.0) empowered by generative AI, letting localization teams manage and collaborate on translation jobs at scale.
- **EventCAT** — AI real-time interpretation and live subtitle platform supporting 50+ languages for conferences, seminars and online meetings. A low-latency engine begins translating word-by-word before a sentence finishes while preserving context.
- **EventCAT Conference** — Real-time multilingual interpretation and subtitles for large in-person events, academic forums and lectures.
- **EventCAT Online Meeting** — Live interpretation and subtitles for Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, including a dedicated app for Zoom meetings, webinars and events.
- **Customized Translation Engines** — Domain- and customer-specific MT engines trained on human professional-curated 'golden' data, plus API integration and on-premise localization options for content-security-sensitive clients.

## Achievements

- MediaCAT won the AI & Data category at the 2024 Product Awards hosted by Products That Count.
- Holds TPN Gold Shield status and SOC 2 Type II certification for content security.
- Reported 800,000+ hours of content and 2.2+ billion words translated across 45+ languages.
- Live broadcast translation in 725 languages to 120 countries via Zixi partnership.
- Raised $11.5M total across seed, pre-Series A bridge and Series A rounds.
- Unveiled EventCAT 2.0 and showcased EventCAT at World IT Show 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — XL8 officially launched its AI real-time interpretation solution EventCAT 2.0 (reported by Asia Business Daily).
- **2025-04** — Unveiled EventCAT real-time multilingual interpretation platform at World IT Show 2025.
- **2024-01** — MediaCAT won the AI & Data category at the 2024 Products That Count Product Awards.
- **2023-09** — Closed $7.5M Series A led by KB Investment, bringing total funding to $11.5M.
- **2023-05** — Unveiled 'Projects,' the next generation of the MediaCAT AI localization platform, powered by generative AI.
- **2022-08** — Raised a $3M pre-Series A bridge round to accelerate machine translation in media localization.

## Links

- Website: https://xl8.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/xl8-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/xl8_inc
- GitHub: https://github.com/xl8-ai
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/xl8.inc/

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Last updated: 2026-06-27