Oytun Tez's Blog Articles

MotaWord, the world’s fastest business translation platform, raised $500K from a strategic partner in France at $10M valuation. The company will be hiring business development professionals in Europe with this recent round of financing. 

The NYC-based company won the prestigious French Tech Ticket (FTT) program and, through the FTT program’s monetary award and the incubation assistance, was able to have a presence in Europe with a base in France. 

During the first 6 months of the FTT program, MotaWord on-boarded prestigious European clients to its translation platform and attracted local investment through a strategic partner who will help with business development efforts for the company’s growth in Europe. The new investment was first announced by MotaWord Founder & CEO Evren Ay, in an open letter to the newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron.

MotaWord efficiently combines the efforts of over 12,000 linguists from around the globe through a proprietary process that allows them to work on translation projects simultaneously. The translation efforts of the carefully-selected, professional translators of MotaWord are coordinated in real-time by an artificial intelligence system. The AI system eliminates the need for project and quality management and increases translator productivity by eliminating tasks like counting words and invoicing clients. This new process and the use of AI instead of human project managers allow MotaWord to provide translation services in over 80 languages, 20x faster and 60% cheaper than traditional translation agencies--while leveraging the time and skills of the translators more conscientiously. 

MotaWord clients monitor their projects’ progress and quality in real time, use their translation memories seamlessly and communicate with MotaWord’s vast translator base in real-time to submit their translation preferences. The system works seamlessly and efficiently, eliminating the need for costly translation management systems. 

“The most important part of MotaWord’s success is our commitment to our global base of professional translators”, says MotaWord’s Chief Growth Officer Jennah Kriebel. “From the get-go, MotaWord was conceived as a multi-sided platform. It is our commitment to our thousands of translators--to simplify their access to translation projects and to get them paid within 15 days that truly sets us apart.”

MotaWord will use its latest round of funding to actively expand its client and translator based in Europe and to develop new tools to better serve users of its platform. Currently hiring sales representatives in all European cities, MotaWord aims to expand quickly and become the leading enterprise solution in the language services market, in Europe and worldwide.

About MotaWord

MotaWord is the world’s fastest professional translation platform. Through the use of cloud technologies, smart algorithms that manage projects around the clock and over 15 thousand professional translators MotaWord provides high-quality translations in any language 60% cheaper and 20 times faster than traditional translation agencies. 

MotaWord Grabber translates any online article, blog post, and publication directly via your Google Chrome browser, eliminating the hassle of manually copying-and-pasting-and-trimming content from one medium to another. After installing MotaWord Grabber in two clicks from the Google Chrome Web Store, the extension will appear on the browser toolbar and will enable ordering translations instantly with MotaWord account credentials without ever leaving the webpage. Downloading the extension and creating a MotaWord account are completely free. There are no purchase requirements, and support is available around the clock on the website or via a simple email.

MotaWord is a cloud-based high-quality, human translation platform that was launched in January 2014 as the first truly collaborative human translation provider, with a network of 10,000+ selected translators around the world. MotaWord’s unparalleled collaborative human translation process is the most innovative in the industry. With a goal of democratizing high-quality translation service globally, MotaWord developed MotaWord Grabber to create an accessible and efficient Google Chrome extension tool to select and professionally translate online content directly from any website and see it get it done in real time on your browser.

“MotaWord for us is all about accessibility,” says Oytun Tez, lead developer and co-founder of MotaWord. “We are trying to simplify ordering translations, make it high quality and sustainable, while keeping the costs down. After the launch of MotaWord API, we added platform-specific SDKs to help developers get up and running in minutes. Then came our plugins such as WordPress and Drupal. Now we are taking translation even closer to you, right on your Internet browser. We listen to our clients, and we want them to enjoy MotaWord in every platform they want to use it.”

According to recent statistics, over 72% of internauts use the Chrome browser from Google. That is much more than the sum of all the other 4 browsers combined. Over 65 percent of MotaWord users claim to be using Google Chrome and its range of apps on a daily basis, this is why designing the tool with Google Chrome’s store was essential in order to be completely available and beneficial to all users.

MotaWord Grabber is available as a free download through the Chrome Web Store and there are no fees associated with using the tool.

To see the full press release please click here.

About MotaWord

MotaWord is the world’s fastest professional translation platform. Through the use of cloud technologies, smart algorithms that manage projects around the clock and over 15 thousand professional translators MotaWord provides high-quality translations in any language 60% cheaper and 20 times faster than traditional translation agencies. 

Going forward you can submit Google Drive documents of any kind directly on to MotaWord and get them translated immediately.

The only thing you need to do is install the MotaWord - Google Drive App from Chrome Web Store. 

Once installed and your browser has been restarted, you will be able to select a document directly from your Google Drive to be sent to MotaWord for translation into any of our 73 languages.

Our new Google Drive App also supports automatic language detection for Google Apps documents, spreadsheets and presentations. (for image type files you'll just have to select the source document language manually)

Selecting a document for translation couldn't be easier.

• Find it in your Google Drive 
• Right-click (or Ctrl + Click on Mac) the document 
• Select "Open With" from the drop-down menu and
• Select MotaWord to follow the simple prompts

Just like in any other document, if you would like to not have a sentence translated within your document you can mark those with double curly brackets "{{" and "}}". Sentences or paragraphs marked with these braces will not be counted or reflected in our quotes and they will not be translated. 

We know you will love it and we will keep on working on further integration with other platforms. Until then we want to make sure that you know of our API, MotaWord Grabber Chrome Extension for online article translations, WordPress and Drupal plug-ins. 

For any integration requests just send us a message using our "contact us" form. We look forward to hearing from you.

Meet with MotaWord at DM Exco 2015

September 16 & 17 | Cologne

MotaWord is the world’s fastest provider of high-quality human translation in over 70 languages. Our focus on developing technologies and innovations for the translation needs of our clients enables them to focus on only one thing - their message.

MotaWord helps its clients access high-quality human translations, 24/7 and offers:

• The highest-quality translation for over 70 languages
• Cost savings of 60% over traditional translation agencies
• Unparalleled speed in creating, deploying and translating projects
• Real-time monitoring of translation projects
• Localized ordering experience in over 55 countries
• On-demand reporting for translation spend
• Robust API to incorporate into your business workflows

If a translation is a service you use or plan to use then you need to see what MotaWord offers.

Contact us to schedule a live demo at DM Exco 2015

About MotaWord

MotaWord is the world’s fastest professional translation platform. Through the use of cloud technologies, smart algorithms that manage projects around the clock and over 15 thousand professional translators MotaWord provides high-quality translations in any language 60% cheaper and 20 times faster than traditional translation agencies. 

Last week, MotaWord attended Collision Conference in Las Vegas, joining hundreds of startups, innovators, and investors from across the world. It was great to be a part of such a collaborative atmosphere and really get a chance to speak about what we have built.

During our time at Collision we were able to talk to a lot of people about MotaWord. How we challenged the regular way of providing translation service - the way a translation agency does. How MotaWord allowed for faster, better and lower cost access to translation service in over 70 languages.

But we also got to listen. We met companies that work in interesting areas, developing new technologies. For example Speechmatics - which provides cloud-based speech recognition, Moovly - which allows you to create custom videos for any platform without any prior editing experience, and Tinggly - which allows you to give world experiences as a gift to your loved ones. There was AxSemantics, a content generation platform pioneering robo journalism and we were glad to see their technology and meet their team.

Zendesk’s Mikkel Svane and Charles Rivers Ventures’ Devdutt Yellurkar, who has invested in Zendesk since it was operating out of a kitchen in Copenhagen, spoke about the investor/startup relationship. With much-shared laughter, they emphasized that your investor is like your spouse, so a meeting of values is essential. 

Staying on the topic of investors, the roundtable by Ajay Chopra of Trinity ventures on “how to raise a round” was by far the most in demand session. Full of insight and honest opinion. 

Pigeon.ly’s founder Frederick Hutson - a former inmate spearheading a communications platform to connect families with their incarcerated loved ones - really struck home with us in his talk about the importance of building something that really speaks to your identity and personal experience, and how it may not fit with the expectations of other people. Our founder has been in the translation industry for over a decade, and it is this deep industry experience that has also allowed him to create MotaWord as something unique that speaks to both clients and translators. 

We also enjoyed the evening festivities, the balmy Vegas weather, and the giant fire breathing praying mantis guarding the outside of the Downtown Container Park. 

In honor of the event, MotaWord is holding a raffle until May 19, where you can win the localization of your app or website into ten languages. You can still sign up today! 

About MotaWord

MotaWord is the world’s fastest professional translation platform. Through the use of cloud technologies, smart algorithms that manage projects around the clock and over 15 thousand professional translators MotaWord provides high-quality translations in any language 60% cheaper and 20 times faster than traditional translation agencies.