Wayra

Wayra UK Limited is an accelerator focused on early-stage technology startups, primarily in sectors such as healthcare, information technology, cybersecurity, and smart transport. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, it operates as a subsidiary of Wayra Investigación y Desarrollo, S.L.U. Wayra UK provides various acceleration programs that include direct cash investments, such as up to €0.25 million for its Wayra Call and £34,000 for the Velocity Health program, which also offers an additional cash prize. Other initiatives include the Wayra Fair By Design program and the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator, which supports cybersecurity startups with grants. The firm aims to connect innovative entrepreneurs with resources, mentorship, and a network of partners to foster business growth, leveraging its affiliation with Telefónica to enhance its reach within the global entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Kyle Tsai

Investor

Past deals in Language Processing

HelloDone

Seed Round in 2019
We enable a transformational customer experience for the Transport, Home Delivery and Utility sectors by orchestrating automatic, natural conversations across all voice and chat channels. Our platform combines digital channel capabilities (chat-bots, skills, dynamic content etc), deep data/insight (client/3rd party/proprietary) alongside a single, rich view of the customer to orchestrate truly valuable conversations, enable real customer engagement and reduce service costs. If an organisation wants to use chatbots and natural language processing (NLP), then our platform should be considered the orchestration layer to ensure truly all-channel customer engagement, minimising "chat-bots silos" and enhancing customer value through context-based offers and information.

myABCKit

Seed Round in 2016
myABCKit offers a play-based language learning platform designed for children aged 3 to 7 years. The platform focuses on personalized literacy and language development through engaging games, allowing children to learn in a fun and interactive manner. Starting with basic literacy, children advance to reading comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar as they explore subjects that interest them. Teachers can tailor the content to meet individual learning needs, fostering a personalized educational experience. The platform supports multiple languages, accommodating both mother tongue and secondary language learning. Additionally, myABCKit incorporates a learning analytics engine to track each child's performance, enabling continuous improvements to enhance their educational experience.

Lingoing

Grant in 2015
Lingoing Limited is an online portal based in London that specializes in translation and sign language services. Established in 2011, the company serves as a social network dedicated to connecting sign language professionals with the deaf and hard of hearing community. Its platform provides a transparent and cost-effective marketplace for language service providers and clients, streamlining communication and improving access to services. By organizing information about interpreters, Lingoing enables clients to assess the quality and qualifications of service providers easily. The company aims to enhance engagement within the deaf community and ensure fair working conditions for language professionals, ultimately fostering better communication between deaf and hearing individuals.

Lingout

Seed Round in 2015
Many developers waste too many hours working on the long and often boring localization process instead of working on the core features of their apps. They believe there is a way to simplify and speed up this time-consuming process. That's why they've developed a localization and translation platform which brings together intelligent technology, usability and smart design. Lingout helps teams of all sizes localize their apps in an easier and time efficient manner.

GearTranslations

Grant in 2014
It's a translation management software leveraged on machine learning algorithms. We help technical enterprises capitalize on human translations by creating a copy-editor that can enhance machine and professional translations to make them fit the company’s style and discourse. Machine translation will soon become useful for doing business and will be the standard for multilingual communication, yet the result will be correct but standarized contents. Companies using machine translation will share a very similar discourse across the different languages. How will your company stand out in a market flooded with automatic standarized content? We offer you to start training your own customized automatic copy-editor today to save costs not only right now, but also in the future. Move forward. Stay ahead.

Insane Logic

Seed Round in 2014
Insane Logic Limited is a company based in London, United Kingdom, specializing in educational software and mobile technology designed to enhance language development and communication skills. Founded in 2008, the company is best known for its innovative tool, MyChoicePad, which facilitates communication for both children and adults. MyChoicePad was developed through a collaboration between Zoe Peden, a former senior manager at The Makaton Charity, and software developer Andrew Jackman, who together envisioned a solution to assist individuals in expressing themselves more effectively.

Poliglota

Seed Round in 2014
Poliglota SpA, founded in 2012 and based in Santiago, Chile, operates a social platform designed to facilitate language learning through small, interactive groups. Instead of traditional classrooms, Poliglota organizes gatherings in informal settings like coffee shops, where expert teachers guide participants using a social methodology that emphasizes innovative activities and social skills. This approach aims to enhance the language learning experience by fostering faster and more effective progress. Poliglota has received recognition for its innovative educational model, including the Avonni award and selection by the Inter-American Development Bank as a notable disruptive innovation in Latin America. The company has generated over USD $2 million in sales from its language plans and continues to expand its offerings.

Tonguesten

Grant in 2014
Tonguesten Limited is an educational technology company based in London, United Kingdom, incorporated in 2007. It focuses on enhancing language learning through entertainment by integrating artificial intelligence with interactive content. The company offers Tongues10, a platform that transforms traditional learning into a gamified experience, allowing users to create personalized textbooks filled with exercises, quizzes, and tests. By utilizing popular media such as football, music, and films, Tonguesten addresses the challenges faced by language learners, particularly beginners, who often find conventional methods tedious and ineffective. The platform maps video subtitles and music lyrics to educational frameworks, providing a tailored learning experience that adapts to individual preferences and behaviors. This approach aims to reduce high churn rates among learners and improve literacy outcomes, as many students struggle with reading proficiency upon leaving school.

Kindery

Grant in 2014
Reading Kindery stories to young children is one of the best activities for stimulating language as well as building motivation, curiosity and memory.

Kindery

Convertible Note in 2014
Reading Kindery stories to young children is one of the best activities for stimulating language as well as building motivation, curiosity and memory.

Tío Conejo

Convertible Note in 2014
Artificial intelligence applied to language for creating applications that analyze, abstract and detect trends in sets of texts.

Lingoing

Grant in 2014
Lingoing Limited is an online portal based in London that specializes in translation and sign language services. Established in 2011, the company serves as a social network dedicated to connecting sign language professionals with the deaf and hard of hearing community. Its platform provides a transparent and cost-effective marketplace for language service providers and clients, streamlining communication and improving access to services. By organizing information about interpreters, Lingoing enables clients to assess the quality and qualifications of service providers easily. The company aims to enhance engagement within the deaf community and ensure fair working conditions for language professionals, ultimately fostering better communication between deaf and hearing individuals.

Lingout

Seed Round in 2014
Many developers waste too many hours working on the long and often boring localization process instead of working on the core features of their apps. They believe there is a way to simplify and speed up this time-consuming process. That's why they've developed a localization and translation platform which brings together intelligent technology, usability and smart design. Lingout helps teams of all sizes localize their apps in an easier and time efficient manner.

Lingoing

Seed Round in 2013
Lingoing Limited is an online portal based in London that specializes in translation and sign language services. Established in 2011, the company serves as a social network dedicated to connecting sign language professionals with the deaf and hard of hearing community. Its platform provides a transparent and cost-effective marketplace for language service providers and clients, streamlining communication and improving access to services. By organizing information about interpreters, Lingoing enables clients to assess the quality and qualifications of service providers easily. The company aims to enhance engagement within the deaf community and ensure fair working conditions for language professionals, ultimately fostering better communication between deaf and hearing individuals.

Lernstift

Seed Round in 2013
The first pen that vibrates when you make a mistake! Lernstift is packed with sophisticated tech that recognizes all writing movements and lets you know when you’ve made a mistake – with an unmistakable vibration. You can choose between two functions: Calligraphy Mode – pointing out flaws of form and legibility. Orthography Mode – detecting orthographic and grammatical mistakes. When learning to write, feedback is essential; the sooner we get it the faster we learn. Lernstift’s subtle, yet unmistakable vibrating sound, lets us know instantly and through sensor technology when a mistake has been made. This makes Lernstift a unique and effective pedagogical tool that makes learning a fun thing to do. Error detection is only beginning of Lernstift’s history. Future versions will have various other features – e.g. a dynamic pressure sensor, a networking module to connect with PCs and other devices as well as an open platform for app development.

Insane Logic

Seed Round in 2013
Insane Logic Limited is a company based in London, United Kingdom, specializing in educational software and mobile technology designed to enhance language development and communication skills. Founded in 2008, the company is best known for its innovative tool, MyChoicePad, which facilitates communication for both children and adults. MyChoicePad was developed through a collaboration between Zoe Peden, a former senior manager at The Makaton Charity, and software developer Andrew Jackman, who together envisioned a solution to assist individuals in expressing themselves more effectively.

Hello Universe

Grant in 2013
Hello Universe is a web-based platform that provides translation and other professional services and offers interpretation service by telephone, with interpreters 24 hours. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

EMOSpeech

Grant in 2013
EMOSpeech specializes in developing software applications focused on speech emotion recognition. The company's primary product is a speech analytics engine tailored for call centers, enabling the analysis of recorded calls. This user-friendly software features a straightforward interface and seamlessly integrates with existing call center platforms. EMOSpeech's technology employs a continuous psychological model to identify a wide range of emotional states, enhancing the representation of acoustic emotions. This capability allows call centers to provide real-time feedback to agents and managers, improving communication and customer interactions.

ProDeaf

Grant in 2013
The ProDeaf is a text and voice translation software for Portuguese Libras, the Brazilian Sign Language. The company was founded in 2010 in order to help with communication between deaf and hearing-impaired. ProDeaf has already won great partners such as Wayra Brasil, Telefônica's business accelerator, and Bradesco Seguros, which has its website interpreted in Libras. In 2012, the ProDeaf was elected partner of Microsoft LATAM Year in the category Citizenship and elected by the Brazilian Federation of Banks as the most innovative design-CIAB Febraban. ProDeaf has a multidisciplinary team composed of programmers, linguists, designers, translators and Deaf - that help the group in understanding the Libras and the daily hardships experienced by those with disabilities.

EMOSpeech

Seed Round in 2013
EMOSpeech specializes in developing software applications focused on speech emotion recognition. The company's primary product is a speech analytics engine tailored for call centers, enabling the analysis of recorded calls. This user-friendly software features a straightforward interface and seamlessly integrates with existing call center platforms. EMOSpeech's technology employs a continuous psychological model to identify a wide range of emotional states, enhancing the representation of acoustic emotions. This capability allows call centers to provide real-time feedback to agents and managers, improving communication and customer interactions.

Blanet

Convertible Note in 2013
Blanet is an internet company that specializes in the fields of education and language learning. The company a

Hello Universe

Convertible Note in 2013
Hello Universe is a web-based platform that provides translation and other professional services and offers interpretation service by telephone, with interpreters 24 hours. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

ProDeaf

Seed Round in 2013
The ProDeaf is a text and voice translation software for Portuguese Libras, the Brazilian Sign Language. The company was founded in 2010 in order to help with communication between deaf and hearing-impaired. ProDeaf has already won great partners such as Wayra Brasil, Telefônica's business accelerator, and Bradesco Seguros, which has its website interpreted in Libras. In 2012, the ProDeaf was elected partner of Microsoft LATAM Year in the category Citizenship and elected by the Brazilian Federation of Banks as the most innovative design-CIAB Febraban. ProDeaf has a multidisciplinary team composed of programmers, linguists, designers, translators and Deaf - that help the group in understanding the Libras and the daily hardships experienced by those with disabilities.

EMOSpeech

Seed Round in 2013
EMOSpeech specializes in developing software applications focused on speech emotion recognition. The company's primary product is a speech analytics engine tailored for call centers, enabling the analysis of recorded calls. This user-friendly software features a straightforward interface and seamlessly integrates with existing call center platforms. EMOSpeech's technology employs a continuous psychological model to identify a wide range of emotional states, enhancing the representation of acoustic emotions. This capability allows call centers to provide real-time feedback to agents and managers, improving communication and customer interactions.

Poliglota

Grant in 2013
Poliglota SpA, founded in 2012 and based in Santiago, Chile, operates a social platform designed to facilitate language learning through small, interactive groups. Instead of traditional classrooms, Poliglota organizes gatherings in informal settings like coffee shops, where expert teachers guide participants using a social methodology that emphasizes innovative activities and social skills. This approach aims to enhance the language learning experience by fostering faster and more effective progress. Poliglota has received recognition for its innovative educational model, including the Avonni award and selection by the Inter-American Development Bank as a notable disruptive innovation in Latin America. The company has generated over USD $2 million in sales from its language plans and continues to expand its offerings.

Poliglota

Seed Round in 2012
Poliglota SpA, founded in 2012 and based in Santiago, Chile, operates a social platform designed to facilitate language learning through small, interactive groups. Instead of traditional classrooms, Poliglota organizes gatherings in informal settings like coffee shops, where expert teachers guide participants using a social methodology that emphasizes innovative activities and social skills. This approach aims to enhance the language learning experience by fostering faster and more effective progress. Poliglota has received recognition for its innovative educational model, including the Avonni award and selection by the Inter-American Development Bank as a notable disruptive innovation in Latin America. The company has generated over USD $2 million in sales from its language plans and continues to expand its offerings.

Insane Logic

Seed Round in 2012
Insane Logic Limited is a company based in London, United Kingdom, specializing in educational software and mobile technology designed to enhance language development and communication skills. Founded in 2008, the company is best known for its innovative tool, MyChoicePad, which facilitates communication for both children and adults. MyChoicePad was developed through a collaboration between Zoe Peden, a former senior manager at The Makaton Charity, and software developer Andrew Jackman, who together envisioned a solution to assist individuals in expressing themselves more effectively.

EMOSpeech

Grant in 2012
EMOSpeech specializes in developing software applications focused on speech emotion recognition. The company's primary product is a speech analytics engine tailored for call centers, enabling the analysis of recorded calls. This user-friendly software features a straightforward interface and seamlessly integrates with existing call center platforms. EMOSpeech's technology employs a continuous psychological model to identify a wide range of emotional states, enhancing the representation of acoustic emotions. This capability allows call centers to provide real-time feedback to agents and managers, improving communication and customer interactions.

EMOSpeech

Seed Round in 2011
EMOSpeech specializes in developing software applications focused on speech emotion recognition. The company's primary product is a speech analytics engine tailored for call centers, enabling the analysis of recorded calls. This user-friendly software features a straightforward interface and seamlessly integrates with existing call center platforms. EMOSpeech's technology employs a continuous psychological model to identify a wide range of emotional states, enhancing the representation of acoustic emotions. This capability allows call centers to provide real-time feedback to agents and managers, improving communication and customer interactions.
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