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Feb 2026Tarjimly announced it had become part of CLEAR Global, indicating a material integration and organizational-structure change.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Tarjimly is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit language-access platform founded in 2017 that connects refugees, immigrants, aid workers, and organizations with on-demand volunteer and professional interpreters/translators via app, web, and hotline. In 2025 it launched Reach for institutional customers, and in 2026 Tarjimly became part of CLEAR Global.
Primary product
On-demand interpretation and document translation platform (Essentials/Premium; Reach for organizations)
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Team size
300-400
Work style
Remote
Industry
Translation and Localization
Sub-industry
Language access / remote interpretation services
Offices
Mountain View, California, United States
Remote / globally distributed across 49 countries
Business model
Nonprofit grant-funded services
Freemium model
Subscription SaaS
Usage-based / pay-per-minute interpretation
Pay-per-word translation
B2B institutional accounts
Funding
Stage
Grant-funded nonprofit / accelerator-backed
Total raised
$3.1M
Latest round
Rippleworks general support grant · Apr 2025
Latest amount
$100K
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder / Chief Operations Officer
Chief Growth Officer
Co-Founder / Board Member
Abubakar Abid
President / Board Member
Board Chair
Investors
AWS Imagine
BlackRock
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Echoing Green
Fast Forward
Full Circle Fund
Google.org
Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI
MassChallenge
Prism Charitable Fund
Rippleworks
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
The Elevate Prize Foundation
The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Twilio.org
Y Combinator
Work & culture
Mission-driven, refugee-centered, and globally distributed. Public messaging emphasizes human rights, language justice, empathy, volunteerism, and using technology to reduce barriers to critical services.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public salary bands were found. Volunteer interpreter roles are unpaid, while paid roles are listed publicly without disclosed compensation ranges.
Benefits
Remote work for open roles
Volunteer recognition badges and certificates
In-app training on interpretation ethics, HIPAA, and trauma-informed interpretation
Free Essentials app for refugees, asylum seekers, and aid workers
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium plus usage-based and subscription pricing: Essentials is free, Premium is about $25/month/user, and professional services are billed by usage (e.g. per minute / per word) or custom enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
- —30-second average connection time
- —250+ languages
- —Hybrid volunteer-plus-professional interpreter network
- —AI/ML matching of requests to interpreters
- —HIPAA/GDPR-compliant offerings
- —Nonprofit model that reinvests profits into free/low-cost access
- —Hotline, mobile, and web access
Technology
React Native
React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Twilio
Terraform
Docker
Django
PostgreSQL
Python
Datadog
Bugsnag
GitHub
Slack
Notion
AWS RDS
Mobilize
Mixpanel
Customers
Refugees
Asylum seekers
Immigrants
Humanitarians
Aid workers
Nonprofits
Healthcare providers
Legal aid organizations
Social service agencies
Businesses and other organizations
Competitors
CLEAR Global
LanguageLine Solutions
Respond Crisis Translation
NaTakallam
Wordly
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
US$1M-$2M annual revenue (2024 Form 990 revenue: $1.27M)
Estimated monthly visits
71.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Latest news
CLEAR Global · Feb 2026
CLEAR Global announced that Tarjimly joined its mission, combining on-demand interpretation with CLEAR Global's language-justice platform and volunteer community.
Tarjimly / EIN Presswire · Oct 2025
Tarjimly launched Reach by Tarjimly, a healthcare and social-services language access platform with 250+ languages, 30-second average connection times, and HIPAA-compliant interpreters.
AP · Sep 2024
AP reported on Tarjimly's Google-backed AI partnership, including First Pass and the use of volunteer sessions to improve large language models.
Google.org · Mar 2024
Google.org announced Tarjimly among the nonprofits in its first generative AI accelerator cohort and said Googlers would work with the team on its AI tools.
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