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Smartling Announces $160 Million Investment from Battery Ventures. Smartling, the leading cloud translation technology platform company, today announced a $160 million growth investment from Battery, a global, technology-focused investment firm. Smartling’s Enterprise Translation Cloud is used by hundreds of B2B and B2C brands, including IHG, Shopify, Momentive (formerly SurveyMonkey) and Lyft. The company will use the capital infusion to expand its market share and leadership position. Battery Ventures, which has a long history of backing software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing companies identified Smartling as an industry leader based on its comprehensive translation platform, one that uses both the power of AI and machine learning technologies and the intuitive skills of its marketplace of translators. Machine translation delivers efficiency for high volume, low priority content, while human translation delivers higher quality and greater accuracy and takes into account context, nuance, and the user experience. Smartling’s translation management system provides custome
