Unbabel was founded by Vasco Pedro, João Graça, Bruno Prezado Silva, Hugo Silva in 2013.

Who are Unbabel's investors?

Unbabel's investors include Amino Capital, Faber, FundersClub, Greycroft, GV (Google Ventures), Notion Capital, Point72 Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and 22 more.

How much funding has Unbabel raised?

Unbabel has disclosed $74.2M raised across 2 of its 4 known rounds.

Where is Unbabel headquartered?

Unbabel is headquartered in San Francisco, US.

Unbabel

AcquiredYC W14

San Francisco, US · Founded 2013 · Delaware corporation · 350 employees · 32 known investors

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Unbabel runs an AI-centric Language Operations platform that lets businesses build translation pipelines combining machine translation, quality estimation, and human-in-the-loop translation and annotation. It serves enterprises seeking to translate content and communicate with customers across languages and markets.

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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W14)

Unbabel was founded in 2013 by Vasco Pedro, João Graça, Bruno Prezado Silva, and Hugo Silva.

Vasco Pedro Co-founder and CEO2013–2025He founded the company in 2013 and has raised over $100 million in funding.

João GraçaFounderJoão Graça holds a Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing and completed post-doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-founder and CTO of Unbabel, a machine translation platform, and co-founded the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School.

Bruno Prezado SilvaLead Designer

Hugo SilvaCo-Founder | Engineering Leader

Phil Shawe President and CEOHe co-founded TransPerfect in 1992 and has served as its president and chief executive since, building the translation and language services company from a startup into a global operation. Outside of business, he works as a coach and mentor and is involved in philanthropy.

Jin LeeCo-CEO

Mark HagertyChief Technology Officer

Davis DohertyExecutive

Bruno SilvaFounder

Leah BuccellatoVice President of People

Sophie VuCMO

Board

Chris Tottman Board directorGeneral Partner at Notion Capital

Investors · 32

Amino Capitallisted by Amino CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $10M

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Faberlisted by FaberLisbon · $108K – $2.7M

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FundersClublisted by FundersClubSan Francisco · $290K

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Greycroftlisted by GreycroftNew York · $100K – $5M

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GV (Google Ventures)listed by GV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M

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Notion Capitallisted by Notion CapitalLondon · $1M – $100Mvia Chris Tottman · board

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Point72 Ventureslisted by Point72 VenturesNew York · $1M – $75Mvia Sri Chandrasekar · board

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Scale Venture Partnerslisted by Scale Venture PartnersFoster City · $5M – $50Mvia Andy Vitus · board

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Shilling VClisted by Shilling VCLisbon · $100K – $1M

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Y Combinatorlisted by Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K

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Alchemist AcceleratorreportedSan Francisco · $30K – $1M

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Caffeinated CapitalreportedSan Francisco · $3M – $50M

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Caixa CapitalreportedLisboa

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DG Daiwa VenturesreportedTokyo

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Digital GaragereportedTokyo

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Faber Capital SCR SAreportedLisbon · $2.7M

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Funders Club ManagementreportedSan Francisco

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HeadlinereportedSan Francisco · $1M – $50M

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Indico Capital PartnersreportedLisbon · $500K – $5M

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Investo CapitalreportedAalborg · $30K – $3M

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M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)reportedSeattle · $100K – $10M

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MatrixreportedSan Francisco · $100K – $10M

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Peterson VenturesreportedSalt Lake City · $250K – $2.5M

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Point NinereportedBerlin · $1M – $10M

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Ridge VenturesreportedSan Francisco · $2M – $7M

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Salesforce VenturesreportedSan Francisco · $5M – $50M

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Samsung NextreportedMountain View · $100K – $5M

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Structure CapitalreportedSan Francisco · $100K – $200K

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WefunderreportedSan Francisco

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Workday VenturesreportedSan Francisco

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Also in the syndicate · 2

Faber VenturesM12

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$74.2M disclosed across 2 of 4 rounds · 2014–2019

Undisclosed amountSeries AOct 2016
Source ↗

▶$60MraisedSep 2019 · 15 investors · Other

Rule 506(b)

Unbabel (YC W14) raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layertechcrunch.com · Sep 2019

Officers, directors & promoters on the filing

Andy VitusDirector
Vasco Calais PedroExecutive Officer, Director
Joao GracaExecutive Officer, Director
Sri ChandrasekarDirector
Amy KuxExecutive Officer
Wolfgang AllisatDirector
Chris TottmanDirector

Offering amount: $60M
Amount sold: $60M
First sale: Sep 2019
Incorporated: Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions: 06b

Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

▶$14.2MraisedJan 2018 · 7 investors · Other

Rule 506(b)

Unbabel raises $23M for its ‘AI-powered, human-refined’ translation platformtechcrunch.com · Jan 2018

Officers, directors & promoters on the filing

Chris TottmanDirector
Wolfgang AllisatDirector
Vasco Calais PedroExecutive Officer, Director
Joao GracaExecutive Officer, Director
Andy VitusDirector
Davis DohertyExecutive Officer

Offering amount: $23M
Amount sold: $14.2M
First sale: Dec 2017
Incorporated: Corporation, Delaware, 2013
Federal exemptions: 06b

Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

The YC application· Winter 2014 batch

Unbabel Demo Day YC W14

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Founder mafia

4 people who came through Unbabel went on to found or lead other companies.

Vasco PedroCEOFounded Spinnable Sofia PessanhaCMOFounded CareRev Phil ShawePresident and CEOFounded Transperfect Gil CoelhoAssociate Program ManagerFounded Spinnable

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In the news

AI startup Unbabel declared insolvent after receiving €13.3 million in PRR funding – Portugal Residentportugalresident.com · Jun 2026

Unbabel - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · Jun 2026

Unbabel among the first AI startups to win millions of GPU training hours on EU supercomputers | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · Jun 2024

Técnico spin-off raises $60M Series Ctecnico.ulisboa.pt · Nov 2019

Unbabel (YC W14) raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layertechcrunch.com · Sep 2019

Microsoft Ventures has helped a translation service that uses AI and humans raise $23 millionukstories.microsoft.com · Apr 2018

Unbabel raises $23M for its ‘AI-powered, human-refined’ translation platformtechcrunch.com · Jan 2018

Frequently asked questions

What does Unbabel do?: Unbabel runs an AI-centric Language Operations platform that lets businesses build translation pipelines combining machine translation, quality estimation, and human-in-the-loop translation and annotation. It serves enterprises seeking to translate content and communicate with customers across languages and markets.
Who founded Unbabel?: Unbabel was founded by Vasco Pedro, João Graça, Bruno Prezado Silva, Hugo Silva in 2013.
Who are Unbabel's investors?: Unbabel's investors include Amino Capital, Faber, FundersClub, Greycroft, GV (Google Ventures), Notion Capital, Point72 Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and 22 more.
How much funding has Unbabel raised?: Unbabel has disclosed $74.2M raised across 2 of its 4 known rounds.
Where is Unbabel headquartered?: Unbabel is headquartered in San Francisco, US.