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Babelverse

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Babelverse is the first solution for universal speech translation, powered by a global community of human interpreters.

It enables people to benefit from on-the-spot interpretation, in any of the world’s spoken languages. Multilingual speakers and professional interpreters can earn money for interpreting remotely. Babelverse is available to events and conferences, for both attendees and remote viewers, making any live-streamed video available in multiple languages, for people who would be unable to attend, let alone understand.

In January 2012, Babelverse offered live interpreting of President Obama’s State of the Union address. In September 2012, Babelverse powered the live interpretation of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012.

Babelverse plans to be open to the public in any situation where they may need it to communicate, like when travelling abroad, business meetings, phone calls, etc. Their vision is a universe where everyone communicates seamlessly, while speaking their native language. We aim to do to language barriers what the aeroplane did to geographical barriers.

Recent Milestones

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  Babelverse added Benjamin Wagar as Business Development. (4/1/13)
  Posted 4/28/13 at 10:01am
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  Babelverse added Marco Giberti as Advisor. (10/1/12)
  Posted 3/4/13 at 11:18am
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  Babelverse received $100k in Seed funding. (9/8/12)
  Posted 9/8/12 at 4:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  Babelverse — Babelverse People's Choice Winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012! (5/23/12)
  Posted 6/7/12 at 2:26pm via techcrunch.com
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  Babelverse — Babelverse Winners of B2B Awards and People's Choice Award at The Next Web Conference 2012! (4/27/12)
  Posted 6/7/12 at 2:26pm via thenextweb.com
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  Babelverse — Babelverse winners of LeWeb 2011 out of 700 start-ups, Babelverse made it to the main-stage and presented their vision for the future of real-time cross-language communication! (12/9/11)
  Posted 12/15/11 at 6:13am via leweb.net
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  Babelverse — Babelverse to launch on stage at LeWeb conference (11/16/11)
  Posted 11/16/11 at 1:45am via pressdoc.com
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  Babelverse received $40k in Grant funding. (5/1/11)
  Posted 5/6/11 at 9:27am via startupchile.org
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  Babelverse — Babelverse has been selected as one of the startups to participate in Startup Chile 2011 (5/1/11)
  Posted 5/6/11 at 9:26am via startupchile.org
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  Babelverse added Mayel de Borniol as Co-Founder. (10/23/10)
  Posted 11/21/10 at 5:17pm
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  Babelverse added Josef Dunne as Co-Founder. (10/23/10)
  Posted 11/21/10 at 5:17pm

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Public Beta Homepage
Uploaded: 4/23/12

Above: User Profile
Uploaded: 5/24/12

Sources

1. Babelverse on Start-Up Chile (startupchile.org) [edit]
2. Babelverse Lands Round Led By 500 Startups For Human-Powered Online Translation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Selected to participate in Startup Chile (startupchile.org) [edit]
Babelverse to launch on stage at LeWeb conference (babelverse.pressdoc.com) [edit]
Congratulations to our Startup Competition Winners! (leweb.net) [edit]
The Final Six Disrupt NYC Startups: Ark, Babelverse, gTar, Open Garden, Sunglass, Uberconference (techcrunch.com) [edit]
TNW 2012: Best B2B, and Public Choice award: Babelverse (thenextweb.com) [edit]