Tarjama&
Riyadh, SA · Founded 2008 · 397 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
Tarjama is a language and content operating platform serving governments and global brands across MENA with translation services, dialect coverage, and a network of 25,000+ linguists. The company has processed two billion words since 2008 and provides enterprise language services including translation, interpretation, and localization across specialized verticals.
Also known as Tarjama · Tarjama&
Founders & leadership
Tarjama& was founded in 2008 by Nour Al Hassan.
Investors · 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$15M disclosed across 1 round · 2025
- $15MSeries AMay 2025 · 3 sources
Global Ventures (lead), Endeavor Catalyst, Golden Gate Ventures, Phaze Ventures, TA Ventures, Wamda Capital
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Tarjama& (Tarjama) is an enterprise language and content company operating across the Middle East and North Africa, serving governments, ministries, Fortune 500 companies and global brands. Its offering spans translation, localization, transcreation, interpretation, subtitling, dubbing, voice-over and live captioning across 100+ language pairs and 22 Arabic dialects, alongside digital services (web and mobile development, UX/UI, SEO, performance marketing, e-commerce, analytics), communication services (PR, editorial content, press releases, live event coverage) and AI/technology services (machine translation, TMS integration and connectors, analytics and QA, AI consulting, workflow automation).
The company organizes its offering into six connected products on a shared operating standard and single translation memory: Arabic.Ai (foundation models, Arabic LLM, agentic studio, data services, AI annotation), T-Portal (enterprise translation and content production), Cleverso (AI-powered translation management system with automated routing and QA pipelines), Screens (media localization, subtitling, dubbing, broadcast and live captioning), The Content Lab (copywriting, scripts, campaign content) and Ureed (a marketplace for hiring linguists, copywriters, translators and content specialists on demand).
Delivery is supported by a network of 25,000+ vetted in-country linguists, ISO 17100, ISO 18587 and ISO 27001 certifications, 24/7 project management, and a platform layer built around ingest, translation memory and machine translation, three-layer QA, delivery through API/portal/connector, and continuous learning that feeds approved output back into translation memory and MT training.
Founding story
Nour Al Hassan founded the company in 2008 with a stated vision of transforming language services and creating employment opportunities for women in the MENA region, and continues to serve as Founder and CEO while shifting the platform toward AI.
Business model
Tarjama sells enterprise language, content, digital, communication and AI services, combining human linguist delivery with proprietary technology. On the AI side, Arabic.AI is offered through three service models: direct licensing of the Pronoia LLM, workflow integration, and fully customised AI implementations. Contracts are described as committing to outcome metrics such as cycle time, cost reduction and accuracy lift.
Revenue comes from enterprise service engagements and programs (translation, localization, media localization, digital and communication work) plus technology offerings including managed machine translation, TMS platform access with API and connectors, LLM licensing, and consulting/implementation services.
Traction
Reported metrics include two billion-plus words delivered, 700+ enterprise clients, operations in 30+ countries, a 98% year-over-year client retention rate, 25,000+ linguists, 100+ languages, 40+ subject domains and seven offices. Referenced programs include the virtual G20 Summit (10 languages, 15 expert linguists), Expo Doha (13 languages, 850,000+ words), Ministry of Culture cultural-diplomacy programs (150+ linguists, 10+ languages), noon e-commerce catalog localization (2M+ SKUs, 45% cost reduction, 3x capacity uplift), OSN media localization (500,000+ minutes subtitled, 30% viewership lift), Investopia live interpretation, the Esports World Cup (14 languages, 25 games, 6,662 minutes) and investor-relations work for Axon.
Latest developments
In April 2025 the company launched Arabic.AI at Dubai AI Week, an agentic AI platform powered by Pronoia V2, an Arabic-first LLM designed for on-premises deployment on a single GPU and aimed at government, healthcare, finance and media workflows. In May 2025 it announced a $15 million Series A led by Global Ventures, with proceeds earmarked for scaling Arabic.AI go-to-market, doubling research and engineering teams, expanding sovereign infrastructure with industry-specific models and agents, and launching an AI Academy.
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Market position
Tarjama positions itself as an Arabic-first, MENA-rooted language and content operating layer, contrasting its technology with translation tooling built on European-language assumptions and targeting the Arabic enterprise AI gap while competition in Arabic-native enterprise AI remains limited. It reports 20% CAGR revenue growth over the three years to 2025 while remaining profitable.
Differentiation claims center on Arabic-first engineering (right-to-left handling, dialects and complex morphology), 22 native Arabic dialect coverage, a translation memory compounding since 2008, sovereign-ready controls (ISO 27001, NDA-by-default, clearance workflows, on-premises LLM deployment on a single GPU), and a unified ecosystem where language, media, digital, communication and AI products share one operating standard and memory.
Technology
The technology stack centers on Arabic.Ai, including Pronoia — an Arabic-first large language model whose v2 release the company benchmarks as outperforming GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3/70B and Cohere on Arabic tasks — and which runs on a single GPU to enable secure on-premises deployment. Development of Arabic language AI is traced to the company's first machine translation model in 2017. Other components include Cleverso, an AI-enhanced translation management system with automated routing and QA pipelines, T-Portal, domain-tuned MT engines with post-editing, a translation memory accumulated since 2008, a REST API with 20+ native connectors and SDKs in Python, Node and PHP, three-layer linguistic and technical QA, and ISO 27001-certified security with SSO, role-based access, audit logging and data residency options for sovereign deployments. The company cites 99.97% platform uptime and 12+ years of training data.
Go-to-market
The company sells directly to enterprise and government accounts, supported by published client case studies and a portfolio of national-scale programs. Following its 2025 funding, it stated plans to scale the Arabic.AI go-to-market strategy, double research and engineering teams, expand sovereign infrastructure with industry-specific models and agents, and launch an AI Academy to train enterprise and government leaders.
Governments, ministries and public-sector bodies; regulated enterprises in banking, legal, medical and finance; media, streaming and OTT platforms; e-commerce operators; and global brands and international financial institutions. The company reports 700+ enterprise clients across 30+ countries.
Geography
Seven offices — Riyadh, Dubai, Amman, Doha, Beirut, Montreal and Paris — with follow-the-sun delivery and active client operations in 30+ countries across five continents. Press coverage describes the company as UAE- and Saudi-based with operations in over 30 markets.
History
The company traces its founding to 2008 (a 2025 press report cites 2009), when Nour Al Hassan launched it with a stated aim of advancing language services and employing women in MENA. It expanded into localization and broader content solutions in 2012, reached delivery in 30+ countries by 2018, launched the Cleverso translation management system in 2020, acquired Screens in 2021 to add multimedia, subtitling and broadcast localization, deployed the Arabic.Ai machine translation engine in 2022, reached 700+ clients and 2B+ words in 2023, and launched a fine-tuned Arabic LLM in 2024. Arabic.AI was launched at Dubai AI Week in April 2025, followed by a $15 million Series A in May 2025. The company frames 2026 as the year its ecosystem — AI, language, digital and communication — is unified into a single operating layer.
Risks & controversies
Performance comparisons against GPT-4o, DeepSeek and Cohere are based on benchmarking conducted by Tarjama& itself rather than independent evaluation. Public sources also differ on the founding year, citing both 2008 and 2009.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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Timeline · 8
launches, deals, and filingsSeries A funding to scale the Arabic.AI agentic ecosystem, with participation from Wamda Capital, TA Ventures, Phaze Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst.
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Agentic AI platform powered by Pronoia V2, an Arabic-first LLM, launched approximately one month before the Series A announcement.
Deployed an Arabic machine translation tool for business translation.
Acquired Screens, adding multimedia, subtitling and broadcast localization capabilities.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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- Tarjama&tarjama.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Tarjama& do?
- Arabic-first enterprise language and content platform combining translation services with proprietary Arabic AI models.
- Who founded Tarjama&?
- Tarjama& was founded by Nour Al Hassan in 2008.
- Who are Tarjama&'s investors?
- Tarjama&'s investors include Golden Gate Ventures, Phaze Ventures, Wamda Capital, Endeavor Catalyst.
- How much funding has Tarjama& raised?
- Tarjama& has disclosed $15M raised across 1 round.
- Where is Tarjama& headquartered?
- Tarjama& is headquartered in Riyadh, SA.