DeepL
Deep learning for language translation
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Company mission
DeepL's mission is to overcome language barriers and bring cultures closer together.
Employees
201-500
HQ Location
GE Ehrenfeld, Köln, Germany
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DeepL is a deep tech company developing neural networks that help people work with languages. The company has developed a remarkable translation service that covers 26 languages to a level that, it claims, outperforms major tech companies three times over. It’s one of the most visited free translation services in key regions across the globe, including China, Japan, and Germany.
All this success is to say that DeepL have managed to master what services like Google or Bing Translate have not quite yet - grasping the sense and complexity of the sentence and its context. This is remarkable, and has proven invaluable too. DeepL expanded from its free service to aggressively pursue enterprise clients with DeepL Pro - and is now deeply integrated into the operations of customers like Nokia, Siemens, and Deutsche Bahn.
This rapidly ballooning success since DeepL’s 2017 launch speaks to the quality of the company’s talent and management, and its market-leading service gives it the freedom to pivot. Exact details on its expansion are light on the ground, but it’s been beefing up its engineering and product teams, and has its sights set on becoming “Europe’s leading AI company”. With its outstanding history of success in this fast-growth market, DeepL certainly has a strong chance.
Total funding - $107.3m
Last fundraise
Jan 2023
$107.3m
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Company benefits
- Flexible working-from-home
- Additional Occupational health and Accident Coverage
- Hack Fridays
- Work from home abroad
- Regular international team events
- Remote home office setup (furniture and equipment)
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Gym Membership
- Bike Leasing
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Company values
- Collaboration and teamwork: We create a positive and trust-based environment, where a diverse and knowledgeable team works together in an empathetic way
- Flexibility in decision-making: We empower our team to own their decisions, free of micromanagement or a top-down mentality, and to embrace creativity and experimentation
- Quality in execution: We strive for the highest quality work, to reach and help as many people as we can
- Caring for one another: We care deeply about our team and invest in their happiness, productivity, and personal and professional development
- Overcoming language barriers: We aim to improve communication and help foster global connection and understanding
- Trust: We trust our team. By giving them the freedom to choose when and where to work, we create an inclusive culture and a positive work-life balance
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Founders
Jaroslaw Kutylowski
(CEO)Originally the Head of Software Development at Andagon, before moving on to serve as CTO at Linguee - which resulted in the founding of DeepL.
Diversity & Inclusion at DeepL
- Our diversity is one of our biggest strengths as a company, and we delight in the opportunity to work with DeeopLe from all corners of the globe and all walks of life. Here are some examples of what we currently do to ensure our company is welcoming and inclusive of everyone:
- Our remote work policy makes work at DeepL accessible to parents, caregivers and those with additional needs that may form barriers to office work
- We aim to eliminate bias from hiring via ‘blind feedback’- interviewers can’t see each other’s notes or any information about a candidate that is not directly related to their experience and skills
- We actively reach out to underrepresented groups within that team when hiring for a new position
- We make decisions collaboratively within our teams, not top-down- this means the diverse voices within DeepL are not just in the room but actively being heard and listened to with every move we make
- We use inclusive language in our job descriptions and listen to advice about how to make them accessible to all applicants
- We create diverse interview panels wherever possible to ensure candidates feel seen by people they can relate to
- However, we know that we could do more- and we want to! Here are some of the steps we have in mind for the future:
- Have a visible presence at industry events targeting underrepresented groups within tech, and start to organise events of our own
- Continue to promote DeeopLe from diverse backgrounds into leadership positions within our teams
- Continue to support shared interest groups within the company to allow people with shared difficulties or barriers in the industry to collaborate and support one another
- Do you have some more ideas about what we could do to make DeepL more inclusive? Hit ‘apply’, and you can tell us all about it in the interview…
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