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About Lingolet

Company Details

  • We develop devices for the language market
  • Our technology combines IoT (Internet of Things), AI (artificial intelligence) for translation, cloud storage, machine language for data analysis, block chain for data integrity, and more.
  • Our products are wireless wearable devices with WIFI/Bluetooth for connectivity to an app.
  • Our markets are consumer technology, health, law, education, travel, and other areas that require translation.

What We Do

Lingolet develops and markets technological advanced language solutions for consumers and businesses. Built on artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, voice transcription, and block-chain technologies, Lingolet platform offers advanced machine interpretation and connects dedicated human interpretation with secure, simple, and reliable language services, helping to maximize human potentials by innovating world-class, easy-accessed language solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships. With Lingolet you can communicate in any language at any time.

History of the Lingolet ONE

The original device and app, named One Mini, was developed by IOL/Transn in China. Lingolet acquired all rights, including intellectual property (IP) and distribution.
Lingolet is an American company, incorporated in the US and based in Silicon Valley in California.
Lingolet did further development and launched the new device as Lingolet ONE for global distribution.
Lingolet granted a license to IOL/Transn to sell and distribute the One Mini under licensed in the Greater China area. The One Mini is customized for China and works in Chinese.

Our Mission at Lingolet

We know languages are important. We speak more than ten languages at Lingolet. We want to build language solutions that help people in their personal and professional life.

What Does Lingolet Mean?

Our name has two meanings:

  1. Lingo = language. Let = A small thing, such as a booklet. Lingolet is a small thing for language.
  2. Lingo = language. Let = Easy in Danish. LingoLet makes languages easy to use.

Our Technology

We use a combination of technologies, including AI, apps, cloud services, consumer technology, travel, wearables, wireless devices, and other.

The Opportunity

We are developing new types of products and services for the language market. Many of these have no existing equivalent. We will roll these out in 2020.
According to the NIMDZI industry study in March 2019, the language services market was $54 billion in 2019 and will grow to $70 billion per year by 2023. Interpretation was $8.3 billion in 2019 and will grow to $11 billion in 2023. Professional language services cost on average $5.90 dollars per minute (Common Sense Advisory report, The Language Services Market).

Milestones

  • July 2019: Form the core team, incorporation, and funding
  • August 2019: Acquisition of IP (the intellectual property)
  • September 2019: Final beta version of the device
  • October 2019: Begin development of the next device
  • January 2020: Launch at CES 2020
  • January 2020: Begin sales of Lingolet ONE
  • March 2020: Begin second phase of Lingolet

Office Location

Our headquarters is in the center of Silicon Valley, California.
Lingolet, Inc.
4633 Old Ironsides Drive, #230
Santa Clara, CA 95054 US
Tel. +1.650.343.5588
Lingolet.com

Number of Staff

Under 25 (Spring 2020). We are growing quickly.

History of Funding

  • We raised $600,000 in our initial funding
  • We expect to raise two million US dollars in Spring 2020

Industry Awards

Lingolet won the SVIEG Innovation Award at CES 2020

Quotes

``Today’s digital world impacts businesses and consumers globally. The increasing adoption of mobile networking, machine learning, and artificial intelligence has created challenges and opportunities for human interpreters for better engagement with consumers and users,” said Jerry Song, founder and CEO of Lingolet. “Going beyond machine translation and AI, Lingolet built a platform for users to access the global resource of thousands of professional interpreters for live interpretation without constrains of time, location, or cost. The Lingolet ecosystem will power the AI-based machine translation which in turn levels up the language services,” he added.
“We have found that one of the major barriers to closing international business agreements is finding reliable qualified interpreters. Precision is a requirement for attorneys. Having real time vetted translators at the click of a button saves time, saves money, and means more business for us and our clients. We welcome this innovation.” -- Eric H. Milliken, founder partner at Sutter Law, P.C.
“We have been really impressed with Lingolet’s technology and the devices are unlike anything we have seen,” said Bryan Forrester, CEO of Boostlingo, a San Francisco-based language service company. We look forward to working with the Lingolet team as a strategic partner to digitize the traditional language service industry.”

Bios

Jerry Song, Lingolet CEO

Jerry Song is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and the founder/CEO of Lingolet, Inc., an AI-based language service solution.
The son of civil engineers, Jerry grew up in Tianjin, China. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Nankai University, China and worked in Beijing for five years. In the late 1990s, Jerry moved to Houston, Texas and earned his Master’s Degree from the University of Houston.
In 2010, Jerry joined PacketTrap, the network-monitoring division of Quest Software, where he became a senior manager and created its R&D engineering team in Zhuhai, China. Quest was later acquired by Dell Software in 2012. In the following years, he co-founded two startups that managed business development for the mainland China market.
Jerry enjoys running and travelling in his rare spare time. He frequently prepares for marathons and always strives to improve his running times. On weekend mornings, you can find Jerry running in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
At age 25, Jerry married his college classmate. They live in San Francisco with three kids: Maxwell, Michelle, and Matthew.

Frank Wei, Lingolet COO

Frank Wei is the founder and CEO of Master Translation Services (MTS), a language services group in Xiamen, China. He founded MTS in 2000 and grew it over 100 in-house linguists and seven branch offices in mainland China, Taiwan, and USA. MTS ranks among the top Asian language service providers.
He is a Council Member of the Translators Association of China (TAC), Deputy Director of TAC Translation Service Committee, Visiting Professor at Xiamen University and Xiamen University of Technologies.
He is a leading expert in language technology and translation management systems. Frank has been in the language industry for 19 years. He has also invested in language technology startups in US and China.

Andreas Ramos, Lingolet CMO

Andreas Ramos was born in South America, grew up in the US, and got his Master’s at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He worked on his doctoral thesis at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) and then moved to Palo Alto to work in Silicon Valley. He led translations of UNIX documentation in six languages for SGI, wrote the localization manual to handle 18 languages for SUN Microsystems, and was the head of documentation at Brio. He was the director of the marketing agency at Acxiom, where he worked with Fortune 200 companies and then Director of Global SEO at Cisco, where he worked in 44 languages in 84 countries.
He is adjunct professor of digital marketing at California Science and Technology University (CSTU) and instructor at INSEEC, one of France’s leading universities. He also leads the certification courses for the DMA-NC.
Andreas has written more than 15 books in digital marketing, six of which are Amazon #1 Best Sellers. His recent book on how to build startups has been translated into French, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese.
Andreas speaks four languages fluently and works in several more. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and cat. You can visit him at andreas.com.

Video Interviews with Key Team Members

Jerry Song, Lingolet CEO

Andreas Ramos, Lingolet CMO