DeepL Founder: Who owns the online translator?

DeepL is the competition for the online translator Google Translator – but many users often don’t know who the founder of DeepL is. Also mostly unknown is the fact that DeepL belongs to a German company.

Online translator DeepL: Vision of founder Jaroslaw Kutylowski

Google Translator has been known and used for translations of countless languages for many years. Since 2017, there has been a serious competitor: DeepL Translator is based on neural networks and translates texts or entire documents into over 25 languages. In addition, the company provides professional products for companies, business people and translators.

• DeepL was founded in 2016 by Jaroslaw Kutylowski, in August 2017 the free online translator will be launched.

• Jaroslaw Kutylowski holds a doctorate in computer science and pursues his own vision of a translator with DeepL.

• DeepL is a service of the public limited company DeepL SE based in Cologne. The company is led by founder Jaroslaw Kutylowski, who is thus also CEO.

• The company is supported by international investors, including btov and Benchmark. The latter was among the early-stage investors in Dropbox, eBay, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter or Uber, among others.