- Smartling CEO Bryan Murphy will remain in his role following the deal
- Fresh capital will fund agentic localization tools and API-first platform integrations
- Smartling has featured on Fast Company‘s Most Innovative Companies list for two consecutive years
Vitruvian Partners has acquired a majority stake in Smartling, an AI translation platform, from Battery Ventures, for undisclosed terms. New York-based Smartling will continue under its existing leadership, with Bryan Murphy remaining as CEO.
The investment is intended to accelerate Smartling’s product roadmap, expand its agentic localization capabilities and broaden its go-to-market footprint, including deeper expansion into EMEA and APAC. The company plans to extend its AI-powered translation and quality-evaluation tools, invest further in its translation management and language AI agent capabilities, and pursue additional M&A that complements its language AI roadmap.
“Translation is one of the largest industries being reshaped by AI, and Smartling has built a leading position at the centre of this transformation, powering how global enterprises communicate,” said Tomer Yosef-Or, partner at Vitruvian Partners. He added that the firm was backing Smartling “as they scale their category-defining platform.”
Smartling has been named to Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for two consecutive years, ranking third in the business-services category.
Vitruvian Partners is a growth-focused investor with offices across London, Miami, San Francisco, Stockholm, Munich, Madrid, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Singapore and Shanghai. The firm has more than $20 billion in active funds and has previously backed Darktrace, Hinge Health, AlphaSense, Wise and Skyscanner, among others.
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