LinkedIn · May 2026
Announced an iOS app for long-running, business-critical multilingual conversations, with offline mode and kiosk view teased in the post.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Cuckoo is a YC W25 startup building a real-time AI live translator/interpreter for global sales, marketing, support, and multilingual meetings. Public sources mostly point to San Francisco, but YC also lists Seoul, so I surfaced both instead of guessing.
Primary product
Real-time AI live translator/interpreter for multilingual business meetings and events
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, USA
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI translation and localization software
Offices
San Francisco, California, USA
Seoul, South Korea
Business model
B2B SaaS
subscription SaaS
per-seat licensing
enterprise custom contracts
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$2.4M
Latest round
Seed · Nov 2025
Latest amount
$1.8M
People & investors
Work & culture
Product & market
Pricing
Professional: $100/month; Teams: $100/user/month; Enterprise: custom pricing.
Differentiators
- —Learns context from keywords, PDFs, pitch decks, and other documents
- —Real-time translation for online and in-person meetings
- —Supports 20+ languages
- —Works inside Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, and Microsoft Teams
- —Designed for technical, industry-specific conversations
- —Extends beyond meetings into video and website localization
Technology
OpenAI GPT
Google Gemini
Anthropic Claude
Upstage Solar
HubSpot
Zoom
Google Meet
Slack
Microsoft Teams
macOS
Windows
iOS
Customers
Snowflake
PagerDuty
Grafana Labs
dbt Labs
Weaviate
ClickHouse
Weights & Biases
SNOMED
SeAH Steel
GS
Fivetran
KKday
Highchem
SIMMTECH
Ashisuto
Competitors
Google Translate
Papago
Interprefy
Kudo
Wordly
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
roughly $440K ARR (estimated)
Estimated monthly visits
11.6K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Rolled out real-time audio translation for events, built from lessons learned supporting hundreds of meetups and summits, with direct phone access for audiences.
LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Added an integration that lets users send translations into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini without reformatting, extending Cuckoo’s workflow beyond translation.
VentureSquare · Nov 2025
Reported a $1.8M seed round led by Y Combinator with Smilegate Investment, Mashup Ventures, Base Ventures, Schmidt, and BonAngels Venture Partners participating.
The SaaS News · Nov 2025
Covered the same $1.8M seed round and said proceeds would support product development, global expansion, and service improvements.
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