When was Lilt founded?

Lilt was founded in 2015 and raised its 1st funding round within a year of its incorporation.

Where is Lilt located?

Lilt is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States.

Who is the current CEO of Lilt?

Spence Green of Lilt. They have also founded 1 company.

How many employees does Lilt have?

As of Aug 31, 2026, the latest employee count at Lilt is 815.

Is Lilt a funded company?

Lilt is a funded company, having raised a total of $164M across 8 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Seed round, raised on Mar 25, 2015.

When was the latest funding round of Lilt?

Lilt's latest funding was a $***** Series C round on Nov 15, 2024, with participation from 0 investor.

Where does Lilt rank among its competitors?

Lilt ranks 4th amongst 103 active competitors, of which 20 are funded. It stands 3rd in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Synthesia, which secured $200M in Oct, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Lilt?

Lilt's top competitors include DeepL, Reverie Language Technologies and Synthesia. Among them, Synthesia secured the most recent funding round in October, 2025.

Lilt - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Company Details

Provider of cloud-based machine translation tools and services. It comes with features such as auto-suggest based on previously translated segments and an intelligent pre-translation feature with smart tag placement that does not require editing segments anymore. They also offer a real-time adaptive translation API that provides multiple suggestions, incremental domain adaptations, sub-segment matching, and word alignments.

Website: lilt.com
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Founded Year

2015

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$164M in 8 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series C, Nov 15, 2024, $*****

Investors

Redpoint Ventures & 15 more

Ranked

4^th among 103 active competitors

Employee Count

815 as on Aug 31, 2026

Similar Companies

DeepL & 4949 more

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Lilt is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
Lilt, Inc. CIN: 47-3352617 , United States, Active	Mar 05, 2015	-	59 (As on Dec 31, 2020)	-

Lilt has raised a total funding of $164M over 8 rounds. Its first funding round was on Mar 25, 2015. Lilt has 16 institutional investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Lilt:

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Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Nov 15, 2024	4378865	Series C	4372547	3778103	4629631	4035819
Apr 07, 2022	6849964	Series C	3636055	2548863	2830984	Sorenson Capital & 6 more
May 12, 2020	4567846	Series B	4138979	7592323	Intel Education Accelerator	XSeed Capital & 4 more

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The founders of Lilt is Spence Green. Spence Green is the CEO of Lilt.

Here are the details of Lilt's key team members:

Spence Green: Co-Founder & CEO of Lilt. They serve on the board of 1 company.
Contact Info: 1 email address

Lilt's Board of Directors

Lilt's board has 6 active members. Spence Green, Jonathan Feiber, WILLIAM COUGHRAN, Mark Rostick, Ashley Fontana and John DeNero are independent board members.

Here is the list of Lilt's board of directors:

Name	Type	Representing	Status	Duration
Spence Green	Independent board member	-	Current	11y 4m
sjfxlho	Independent board member	-	Current	8y 8m
gynmzqc	Independent board member	-	Current	4y 4m
stpiqpz	Independent board member	-	Current	5y 7m
kkgyhaq	Independent board member	-	Current	3y 6m
ldkghyb	Independent board member	-	Current	6y 2m

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Lilt's employee count trend

Lilt has 815 employees as of Aug 26. Here is Lilt's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Lilt include DeepL, Reverie Language Technologies and Synthesia. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Lilt, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	DeepL 2017, Cologne (Germany), Series C	AI, SaaS, and neural network-based machine translation tools	$415M	IVP, Index Ventures & 19 others	75/100
2nd	Reverie Language Technologies 2009, Bengaluru (India), Acquired	Provider of AI-powered language translation, localization, and voice technology solutions	$4.14M	Lightrock India, Qualcomm Ventures & 15 others	72/100
3rd	Synthesia 2017, London (United Kingdom), Series E	Provider of software for generating professional videos using artificial intelligence	$536M	LDV Capital, Kleiner Perkins & 34 others	69/100
4th	Lilt 2015, Palo Alto (United States), Series C	Provider of cloud-based machine translation tools and services	$164M	Northgate Capital, Redpoint Ventures & 14 others	64/100
5th	Unbabel 2013, Lisbon (Portugal), Acquired	Provider of an AI based translation platform	$106M	Point72 Ventures, Faber & 33 others	57/100
6th	Reverso 2013, Montreal (Canada), Unfunded	Online language translation tool	-	-	57/100
7th	Intento 2013, Berkeley (United States), Series A	Provider of AI-driven language translation and localization platform for enterprises	$16.2M	Flint Capital, Somersault Ventures & 12 others	55/100
8th	Palabra Ai 2023, London (United Kingdom), Seed	Provider of real-time AI speech translation for audio and video calls	$8.4M	Seven Seven Six, Creator Ventures & 5 others	50/100
9th	SDL 1992, Maidenhead (United Kingdom), Acquired	Provider of language, content, and intellectual property lifecycle management solutions	-	Herald Investment Management, Invision & 2 others	49/100
10th	Vitra 2020, Bengaluru (India), Seed	Cloud based multimedia translation and localization platform for enterprises	$5.42M	Inflexor, Mumbai Angels & 9 others	49/100