companies

DeepL SE

German company behind DeepL Translator and DeepL Write, providing AI-driven language translation and writing tools.

DeepL SE was founded in 2017 by Jaroslaw (Jarek) Kutylowski, spinning out of the Linguee translation-search project, and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany. The company's neural machine translation technology powers DeepL Translator, real-time voice translation, and the DeepL Write writing-assistance product, serving over 200,000 businesses. DeepL raised a $300 million Series C round in May 2024 at a $2 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures. As of mid-2026 the company was reportedly weighing an IPO seeking a market capitalization of up to $5 billion, while also announcing workforce reductions of roughly 25% as part of a restructuring toward fewer management layers.

Founded

2017

Headquarters

Cologne, Germany

Sector

applications