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Websitebabelverse.com
Blogbabelverse.com/blog
Twitter@babelverse
CategoryCommunications
Email
Employees2
Founded10/10

Offices

Founded
Incubator
London Garden Hut

People

Co-Founder
Co-Founder

Funding

TOTAL $40k
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL $40k
Grant, 5/11
Start-Up Chile
$40k

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Babelverse

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

It will enable people to benefit from on-the-spot interpretation, in any of the world’s spoken language. Skilled multilingual speakers and professional interpreters alike will be able to earn money for interpreting remotely.

We are now 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. We ran a proof of concept for this with the State of the Union speech by President Obama in January.

In the future, Babelverse will be open to the public in any situation where they may need it to communicate, like when travelling abroad, business meetings, phone calls, etc.

Our 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.

Learn more at babelverse.com

Milestones

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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
  • Dollar
    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 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 — 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

Videos

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Babelverse presenting main stage at LeWeb 2011 - Winners at LeWeb 2011

Added: 5/18/12

Screenshots

Babelverse screenshot
Above: Public Beta Homepage
Uploaded: 4/23/12
Babelverse screenshot
Above: User Profile
Uploaded: 5/24/12

Sources

  1. Babelverse on Start-Up Chile (startupchile.org) [edit]
  2. 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]
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