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DeepL

Application

AI-powered translation service using neural networks for high-quality translation.

Total funding$400M

Valuation$2B

Employees1,000

Founded2017

HeadquartersCologne, Germany

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• DeepL API Model API Sold on its own

  Hosted translation API billed by the character.

• DeepL Translator Application Sold on its own

  Translates text and whole documents between its supported languages.

• DeepL Write Application Sold on its own

  Rewrites text for grammar, tone and phrasing in its supported languages.

• DeepL Customization Hub Application

  Control layer for on-brand AI translation: glossaries, style rules, translation memories and style profiles applied across DeepL's API and Translator products for B2B communication.

• DeepL Translation Flow Application

  End-to-end multilingual project-workflow management, integrating with DeepL's Translator/Write/API and third-party systems (Google Drive, SharePoint, Adobe Experience Manager, Contentful).

• DeepL Voice for Conversations Application Sold on its own

  Real-time speech translation for in-person, face-to-face conversation between multiple languages, with a comfortable dual-viewing mode; available on iOS, Android and web.

• DeepL Voice for Meetings Application Sold on its own

  Real-time voice-to-voice translation and multilingual subtitles for online meetings in Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet, in 30 spoken and 40+ caption languages.

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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 22 May 2024

TechCrunch's coverage of DeepL's $300M raise (2024-05-22); combined with DeepL's earlier disclosed funding, aggregators converge on $400M total across 2 rounds.

Valuation

News reporting · 22 May 2024

"$300M on a $2B valuation" — post-money, TechCrunch 2024-05-22, the round led by Index Ventures. Ontario Teachers' announced the same round and figure. Read 2026-08-27; no later priced round was found.

Employees

Company disclosure · 27 Aug 2026

"1000+ employees" on DeepL's own careers page, read 2026-08-27. A "+" figure is recorded as its floor. The page carries no date, so this as_of is the day it was read, not the figure's effective date.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

Infobox: "Launched 28 August 2017; 9 years ago (2017-08-28)".

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