Friday, August 23, 2013
Safaba Closes Funding Round To Develop Enterprise Machine Translation
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Safaba Translation Solutions LLC ("Safaba"), a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off company, has announced the closing of a first-ever private equity financing round. The financing round was led by Newlin Investment Company with additional funding from Innovation Works (IW), a leading investor in seed- and early-stage technology companies.The financing will be used to further develop Safaba's Enterprise Machine Translation technology that allows leading global enterprises to automate translation of their digital content, which includes websites, marketing materials, software products, technical documentation and customer engagement communications. Safaba's technology accurately adapts to each company's unique language, terminology and vocabulary preferences, styling guidelines and formatting rules. This innovative approach allows global enterprises to reduce the hours associated with manual editing and translation of content. Subsequent enhancements to productivity help companies localize their communications to global markets faster and more cost-effectively. A key Safaba advantage is the ability to introduce real-time multilingual communication channels to global customers and business partners.
"Enterprise Machine Translation (EMT) is an important part of companies' globalization strategy and can have a direct impact on an organization's ability to realize global growth potential, increase profitability and reduce operational costs," said Alon Lavie, Chief Executive Officer at Safaba. "It enables greater brand awareness by dramatically increasing availability and visibility of a company's marketing message in global markets, accelerates product readiness by reducing time-consuming translation cycles and allows companies to provide better and more efficient customer care using both assisted and non-assisted online channels..." Read More»
By: Providence Journal