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DeepL Funding History

DeepL develops language AI for machine translation, writing assistance and real-time voice translation. Its products serve individuals and businesses.

Company Overview

  • Translation & Localization
  • Voice Services & Applications

Founded 2017 · Cologne, Germany

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DeepL Funding Timeline

  1. Announced May 22, 2024

    Series D

    US$300 million

    DeepL said the investment would support international expansion and further research and development in language AI.

    Led by Index Ventures. Participation included ICONIQ Growth, IVP, Atomico, World Innovation Lab.

    Source · deepl.com ↗

  2. Date under review

    Series C

    over US$100 million

    DeepL said the financing would help it keep investing in AI translation and broaden its work into other communication tools.

    Led by Atomico.

    Source · b2venture.vc ↗

DeepL Founding Team

Jarosław “Jarek” Kutyłowski led development of the first version of DeepL Translator. The project drew on data from the Linguee translation search engine and launched publicly in 2017.

DeepL Products

  • DeepL Translator

    Translate text or full documents while retaining formatting and preferred terminology.

  • DeepL Voice

    Hear translations and see live transcripts during a meeting.

DeepL Company Development

Translation Moved Beyond Written Text

DeepL added writing assistance and real-time voice translation alongside machine translation. The voice product brought the business into live conversations, where latency and the flow of a meeting matter alongside accuracy.

DeepL Competitive Landscape

Language Tools and Suite Integration

DeepL’s translation, writing and voice products overlap with tools from Google. DeepL packages those tasks as dedicated language products, while Google offers translation across a wider set of consumer and cloud services. A business can evaluate the fit separately for documents and live speech.